Somebody please help!

[sazza040]

Daughter is 2yr old 3 months , been suffering with constipation for a while now. To cut a long story short , found out she has been with holding and have put her on daily doses of Movicol and Lactulose. Now the witholding is obviously worse than ever. Its been going on for a week like this now, I feel like I am losing my little girl. Its affecting everything. It has been to the point today where she wouldnt even leave her bed as she was trying to hold it in, she was trying to get me to leave her alone so she could hold it in peace. I cant bear her doing this to herself. Im trying to ignore it and its breaking my heart. Any one who's had experience to this how did their little ones cope when put on the medication- J seems worse than when she wasnt (but then shed eventually pass agonising bm which was also heart breaking).

Hello.

When you say she wants to go in peace does that mean she will do a poo on the loo/potty alone?

Do you know why she's withholding?

My DS2 was scared of it falling out. He would do it in a pull-up. Then we progressed to a nappy over the loo seat until finally he managed it fine.

Is she now 'bunged' up? I guess the first thing is to get the poo flowing (movicol works but can take a while and persuading them to drink can be fun). Then once pooing to figure out why unhappy to poo.

One of my DC's suffers from constipation. Changes to his diet have helped.

She isnt potty trained yet, she just wants me out of the room so I cant distract her with all the concentration and effort it takes to keep it in. She loves her book at night but she didnt even want to read it because she kept getting the urge to go.xx

Sorry i forgot to say, I think it was originally fear but now I have no idea if its just become a habbit, or still fear or what it is as she cant explain herself.

I don't have any useful advice but I just wanted to say our DD has been on Movicol for almost a year now and it DOES get better once they get up to the right dose and get cleared out. Hang in there. I know it's bloody awful.

Thanks. Did your DD resist like mad too when first started, has the with holding got better for you?

We got to the point after a couple of days of Movicol where she couldn't withhold-the trick is to get the dose high enough (as specified by GP). We put it in milk in bottles to get it down her, even though she wasn't otherwise having bottles by that point.

My DS2 has been on Movicol for a few months now. Before the GP prescribed it for him he was holding it in and like your dd he became like a different child.

He seemed to be afraid to use the loo, and appeared to be afraid he was going to fall down it. He also didn't feel safe sitting on the loo. So I bought him a two step stool so his feet were firmly planted and a padded toilet seat with handles for extra safe feeling.

But still he held it in. He just wouldn't do it.

Our GP suggested he had 4 doses of Movicol a day cos he was very backed up. Within a couple of days DS2 couldn't hold it in any longer and he had to go. Due to his fear of the toilet we had several accidents in his pants.

So I began a rewards system - together we bought some small toys (eg cars) and lollipops and put them in a see through box so he could see them. And everything time he did a poo on the toilet he got a toy and a lolly.

This and the Movical worked a treat and he now has no problem using the toilet at home. Now I just need to get him to use toilets that are not in our house!

Reward chart worked for us too. My DS2 acquired rather a good selection of little toys!

It will improve. Even when you feel it never will.