First off I'll say I'm booked in to see a doctor next week.
I became a bit constipated over the Christmas period which at first I thought was because I'd I been working in the office a lot and hadn't been able to respond to my body's cues (I'm not great in public toilets). I usually go around 9am like clockwork once everyone's left the house.
I noticed it had been about three days without a movement or urge so I dealt with that with a suppository. Since then, though, I seem to have lost my body's natural urge to go.
I feel my rectum is full, and when it does come out it's soft, but even then I have to exert a lot of effort to get it out. Unlike previously when my body would just do its thing. I do feel like there's pressure in my vagina and my vulva bulges when I'm trying to go, but putting a thumb or fingers up my vagina to push back any bulges doesn't seem to help.
It's really getting me down. The amount of times I go to the toilet thinking "this is it" but, nothing, is heartbreaking. And I can feel it right there. My body just doesn't seem to be doing its thing.
I'm taking lactulose and I'll get some movicol/laxido too (I've read somewhere else that these shouldn't be taken together, so I won't do that), but the problem isn't, I don't think, in my bowel but rather the the transit down from there.
Do anyone have any experience/advice? If it's relevant, I have three children (youngest 8), all vsgunal/assisted deliveries. No problems until now.