Chronic constipation, no bowel movement 4 over week, lower b

hello im just curios were u able to c**p or not yet?

wow, alot of people are freakin constipated, im also one of them. im a tall skinny guy 6 foot 5 29 years old. Ive suffered from constipation all my life, it runs in the family i guess, I usualy go every 2 weeks sometimes longer sometimes shorter. Of course everyone tells me to eat better and eat more fruit and veggies. I do these things nothing ever changes i dont eat that unhealthy.

Ive had a colonoscopy done of course nothing was found, i tried taking citrucel or metamucil 2 weeks everyday stuff just makes me bloated and more pain and cramps. My body eventualy gets so blocked up it decides to get rid of everything with some of the worse cramps you cant move its horrible. When your done usualy you feel weak and nauseaus get cold chills.

I was wondering if i was the only one who gets weak and nauseous with cold chills cause it scares me, dr tells me its just my body is not used to going to the bathroom and when it defacates sometimes poison gets released, ya wonderful.

Im at the point where i get pissed off when i cant go to the bathroom, i push with all my might with no luck , just go 2 weeks later. Do i need to become a vegeterian to get cleaned out, im just sick of being constipated, it makes me depressed and upset alot, tired and lethargic also.

please if anyone has any tips let me know.

joe

I can't let this chronic constipation go any more than three days. After that I PANIC. I but some KY gel on my finger and go up there and lubricate the ends and a little of the sides of the hard lumpy stool and I get some relief. Yea I know that is grouse but it works in a panic.

From previous experience, raw onion is the WORST cause of constipation.

The last time I had it I had no bowel movements for two weeks !!

I went to the ER about two and a half to three weeks ago now for a hemorrhoid problem. Never having any real issues in the past, I didn't know what to expect when I got to the ER. I thought (and still do) that something was very wrong, because even to walk was starting to become painful, and passing a bowel was even worse. My visit to the ER was short, in and out very quickly, the Dr. (who was kind) gave me creams for my problem and sent me on my way. The mistake he made was that he didn't fully examine me. Saying that one issue was the problem, without even checking the other. Two days later, I passed my last bowel movement. Now my hemorrhoids are fine, but I face a bigger problem, one I have never had to go through before. I don't want to eat because I fear that it will just stay "backed up". Now, I'm having issues trying to urrinate. I have taken the stool softeners, and the laxatives, and still nothing. I wake up each day thinking that, this will be the day that I can go. Today I was wrong, and noticed something new, I am now bleeding too! A dark red, almost maroon, very thick looking blood. Almost like an old wound that just wont heal. The pain in my lower right and left sides is starting to grow, and the thought that something more serious floats more and more throughout my head. I don't know what to do anymore, and feel lost, without hope. Please, if anyone has had the same "symptoms" please reply back, and hopefully you have found a solution of relief, that I am looking so hard for.

The the guest above with bleeding, that is a major problem, go to an emergency room if you are still alive.

To the people on suboxone/subutex. You are stopped up because opiates pillage water from the digestive system. I am at the end of 9 days without a BM, I was prescribed two 8mg suboxone a day, that is way to much narcotic and they are out of their mind to prescribe that many. 16mg bupe = 400 mg of morphine. You guys are on bupe, so you should know what 400 mg of morphine would do if you took it. It would completely stop your digestive system, and if you did this for a week straight, you would have a bowel impaction. Stop the bupe for 3-4 days. Start taking senokot, and mirilax daily from when you stop your bupe. After a day or two, switch to a different narcotic pain killer so the cramps and whole experience you are about to endure wont damage you for life. I dropped down too 40mg oxycontin. This was good for me because with my tolerance, it wasn't enough to cause further constipation, just relieve the pain a little.
Now comes the fun part, give yourself a mineral oil enema, and break up the impaction you can reach w/ your fingers. (This is all they will do at the hospital anyway, might as well do it yourself) Go in a circular motion, break into pieces, and position them where they can be pushed out, and do so. Just keep going in with your fingers, and breaking pieces up and pushing them out until you are empty. You will be in pain, but feel 100% better. The suboxone locked me up so bad that I had to do this the next morning as well. At this point, I gave myself a saline enema. I held it as long as I possibly could, jumped up and down, ran a little, did everything I could possibly do to get it to break a little extra loose. I was able to clear my colon finally! Since its been a week, I am experiencing severe cramps as more rock hard impaction is moving down into my colon. If it wont pass, I will use the same method to remove it. Its embarrassing guys but you don't have to be in misery for so long from opiates. Just break up gloves, ky, petrolium jelly, enemas, laxatives, and your hands. Fight the war on all fronts.
As for my personal opinion on suboxone and subutex, I plan to start back on it once I get all this passed. I will be carefully taking very low doses to stabilize and not suffer any constipation. If you are getting constipated like that from bupe, you are taking waaaay to much. It would be wise to take mirilax every day right with your bupe at any dose.

P.S. Bupe= bupenoroprin the narcotic in suboxone and subutex.

I'm trying to find something to help my MIL with her chronic constipation from narcotic use (and 25+ yrs of using laxatives and enemas to combat this problem, which I'm sure has compounded it). She's 81, and just came out of the hospital after being treated for fecal impaction. She had renal failure in early January, so we need to be super careful what we give her to help make her go. There isn't much, I can tell you! Anyway, I just found a drug approved by the FDA 4/2008 called Relistor that is just for folks on opiates who can't go BM, and it's safe for people who have kidney problems. I have no idea why no one's mentioned this drug to us yet, or why they didn't try it in the hospital!!!! Google it and check it out, it's got to be worth a try!

I have the same problem and the professionals make me feel like a fool too. Like I don't take care of myself. but I am telling you that I have a problem and i need help. Why can't you help me? Next time I am not paying and I am going to tell my insurance company not to pay and I'll go to court because I am sick of this.

I have had no bowel movement in 4 weeks. I feel sick and can not stay up very long. g.i. dr did no good. he put me on three laxatives. primary care dr. gave me injection of relistor. I took them for two days. i went a little. now I am cramping and really feel sick. I had this same problem two years ago. and went into pepsis shock. and was in icu for ten days. thwy will not listen to you until you are almost dead. I can not tell you what to do. because I am trying to find out what to do myself. I do have malignanat vascultisis but they just do not care. I f you find anything please email me.

I have been on suboxon for about 6 months now and about a month ago i got sick with a upper respitory infection and followed by a sinus infection. in the mix i started getting real bad constipation and painful gas and bloating i still dont no what to do but i do take 2 stool softeners and 4 tbsp of Milk of Magniziam which works beutifull if i take it every day but when i dont i dont use the bathroom and the pressure and gas and bloating acks up seriusly bad. Suboxone can and does cauls constipation , and its messing with me so bad now that i have dicided to go to pathways rehabe next thursday and after i detox in 7 to 8 days hopefull every thing goes away if not im going kick my self in the ass for coming off of it but if it works im thinking god and staying the hell away from drugs period because they all have side effects if this works for me i will email you back on hear or you can email me at my email edderess and give me yours so it would be easier to comunicate to i dont give it out unless it is a life or dead situiation and in your case it sounds like it . your simtums are on the money of mine for the most part and any one that has this i feal real sorry for them because this is the worse thing i have every went through in my holl life and as a addict thats pretty bad. So hang in thier and try the milk of magnesam and stool softeners and i hope that will work for now i will keep you posted and let you no if coming off of suboxone will help you symtoms.

hi dear, i guess there is some intestinal obstruction,get an endoscopy done it will realy be helpful..ur other tests are all normal so just go for it.
take cr keep in touch

Solution: PAPAYA (PAPAW)

I never have seen any doctor though.
Just eat PAPAYA if it is available where you live. Include the jelly part next to the seeds. While preparing it just eat few of the seeds ( they are kind of purgative: and they are bitter). Or prepare a papaya juice and put few seeds from the papaya. That is wonderful. I just grew up in a papaya farm, and mom showed me what to do when I was a kid. I replace most of my staples with papaya, whenever there is a problem.

NO Pizzas, please!!!! they are horrible. Please avoid them just don't touch pizza please. And every thing that has similar constituents( like molten cheese and white bread!!!! hooooooh)

Papaya preparation: Nothing fancy
1) open the papaya
2) take out the seeds (the jelly part attached to the seeds must be eaten)
3) using a spoon take out the papaya in to a bowl and break them down in to pieces that fit your mouth.
4) eat the pieces using a spoon.

Do this twice a day for 4 days. Then thank God and sleep.
God bless you guys.

My husband just had a TIPS Procedure. He is taking Lactulose.
He was doing good until last night & today.
Now since he hasn't pooped he is confused.
Any info would help.
Thanks

I too have had terrible pain and bloated stomach, so that I cannot get into my clothes.
I cannot exercise due to FM so I bought one of those vibrating tables that you stand on for 10-20 minutes. After one particularly painful WEEK) i decided to sit on the thing instead of stand, it shook my insides up so much that i went within 10 minutes. I sit on it every other day now. !! WOW

Hi my name is Brenda. I started having problems in April 2008. I had a bowel Obstruction and had surgery. Developed complications with a fistula inside, that I had to have another surgery. Over all I have 5 surgeries. The last one was done a KU Medical Center and it was a 7 hour surgery. The surgeon said I had so much adhesion's that it was horrible. After all of this, I still have problems having bowel movements. I have to get milk and Molasses enemas, almost everyday. With out enemas, I don't have bowel movements. I take Amitiza, but it doesn't help. I take Mural ax everyday. It doesn't help. Been back to the ER several times for severe abdominal pain. Doctors tell me there is nothing they can do. I will have to live this way the rest of my life.