Utterly Constipated after taking painkillers - ideas? Posted: 12-01-07 20:25pm
These last few days I've been taking extra
painkillers because of exceptionally large
amounts of pain. Well, it looks like I'm
paying the price now. This is the 5th day
I have't had a bowel movement, and the
scary thing is I don't even have to go! I
have been eating plenty so...
I know one guaranteed cure that I've tried
a few times is a 1/2 cup of olive oil with
a 1/2 cup of organge jiuce (albeit you'll
get 4-5 oily shits after the first needed
one), but I tried it today and gagged as
soon as it hit my mouth; so that option's
out.
I ate many appricots and prunes today,
then took some senacot, but all that's
done is make it so I can feel a bit of
intestinal movement now. Nothing has
reached the end yet.
I've asked doctors about this before and
all they ever say is "eat lots of fiber".
Anything else I could try eating? Also
what consequences to my health could come
of this?
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cutzi
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Utterly Constipated Posted: 12-01-07 21:04pm
well, drink some benifiber and also eat
some orangers and kiwifruit. it will help
im suffereing from it now1!
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cutzi
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Utterly Constipated Posted: 12-01-07 21:05pm
well, drink some benifiber and also eat
some orangers and kiwifruit. it will help
im suffereing from it now1!
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dpeople
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Posted: 12-06-07 11:09am
Any time I have had to take narcotic pain
killers for any length of time my doctor
has always told me to get Colace and take
it regularly as long as I am taking the
pain killer. Generic or store brands are
quite cheap. It works great for me.
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Rosie H
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Posted: 12-06-07 11:21am
dpeople
wrote:
Any time I have had to take
narcotic pain killers for any length of
time my doctor has always told me to get
Colace and take it regularly as long as I
am taking the pain killer. Generic or
store brands are quite cheap. It works
great for me.
Yep this is what you need to do whenever
you are taking narcotics. Take a pill for
a pill....lol
even a stool softener will help.....but
this is normal w/pain killers
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tkr2fulk
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Posted: 12-08-07 01:27am
I just got out of the hospital myself. I
too am on painkillers. Try milk of
magnesia, like Philips. You can get it
over the counter at the drug store. Good
luck!
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dpeople
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Posted: 12-09-07 22:43pm
Quote:
Yep this is what
you need to do whenever you are taking
narcotics. Take a pill for a pill....lol
even a stool softener will help.....but
this is normal w/pain
killers
You laugh! : But
sometimes a person ends up taking more
pills for the side effects of pills than
the number of prescriptions they need! In
the hospital after my liver transplant I
was taking 24 pills a day. Only 8 of
those were primary prescriptions! The
rest were for side effects of
prescriptions! LOL!
But
sometimes a person ends up taking more
pills for the side effects of pills than
the number of prescriptions they need! In
the hospital after my liver transplant I
was taking 24 pills a day. Only 8 of
those were primary prescriptions! The
rest were for side effects of
prescriptions! LOL!