Give me your constipation remedies

[Kittykat93]

Just that really!

I can't go and I'm fed up. I've suffered with chronic constipation but at the moment it's really bad. I'm now having sharp pains in my left side too.

I have laxido but it's not cutting it, trying to eat more broccoli, veg etc.

Please give me your tips to try, before I end up exploding (maybe that would be a good thing though )

A large, strong coffee and a smoothie.

I make smoothies with frozen spinach, banana, frozen berries, almonds and coconut water.

Bowl of tinned prunes eaten warm with custard. Sounds odd but it’s actually really nice!

Lots and lots of orange juice.

OO, if you can have a couple of table spoons or use a generous amount with salad. Beer is also good as is pomegranate juice but perhaps mix with sugar if you suffer from lowish blood pressure (PJ).

Celeriac. Can be explosive within an hour of eating it!

Warm water, linseeds, vigorous exercise (v brisk walking), strong coffee - or all of these

Also moving a lot. Are you doing that? Brisk walk followed by the sort of exercise you do circuit training or fluid yoga type movements.

Have you tried taking the laxido at impaction levels? 8 I think at a time and even then may take a couple days. I would be concerned about eating too much hoping it'll work because that might well end up causing a further blockage.

I would try and keep a diary too going forward to remember what works to keep your bowels moving but also what works against you iyswim.

Keep your fluid levels high, and I would make sure to get some ORS or Diaralyte rehydration products for afterwards iyswim.

Good luck!

Lots and lots of water - more than you think you can ever absorb: failsafe remedy if a black coffee hasn't worked. Or a whole packet of the Fruitella sugar-free foams. But when all else fails - a good 5 litres of water gets it moving. - it's miserable being bunged up.

Plenty of fluids.
Walking.
A ripe pear morning and evening.

Thank you so much everyone, loads of things on here I haven't heard of before so will be trying. Wish me luck

Live plain yogurt with prunes. Honey to sweeten

Cavolo nero and lots of prunes and oranges. That's what works for me!

I'm a bit cynical of the orange juice and banana smoothie suggestions, they would have the opposite effect on me!

I take Inulin also available from Amazon - it is good for the gut, and very gentle. You can add to drinks, soup or yoghurt, and helps to make it easier to go.

Prune juice works for me.

Onec things are "sorted" try eating an Activia yoghurt every day. Seems to keep things moving!

Kiwi fruit...

Drink a cup of plain boiled (hot) water

Prune juice every time.

I take inulin too, I stir a teaspoonful into each of my first three hot drinks of the day. It’s soluble fiber made from celeriac and it doesn’t taste of anything.

Prune juice
Andrews

An entire packet of Aldi sugar free lemon sherbet sweets.

Sugar, lots of it all in one go, it's okay if it's used as a medicine occasionally.

Two large chocolate brownies with chocolate topping or icing and loads of chocolate sauce. I'd not get chance to eat all that before I had to fly.

Had to smile at the prunes and custard, that's what my granny would have used.

After it's worked, then start using healthier foods like a selection of, fruit, fibre and good gut bacteria in your daily diet.

The laxido should soften things and give bulk; if you're completely blocked I'd increase the dose every few days. Assuming you've taken a few days of it already without improvement, then what you may want/need to add is something stimulant such as the prunes (or other fruit). Absolutely agree about lots more water too.

Hope you feel better soon.

A brisk walk and cup of coffee.

Coffee and a bit of exercise