I need suggestions. My bowels have not moved since last wednesday morning. gross i know. eating right, drinking probably 80 oz water a day. got decent fiber, protein etc in my menu. I have never been a good bowel moving person. Ever. I usually go every 2-3 days but now my belly is hurting and it has been 5 days. Like to see the poop gone asap. LOLOLOLOL. If I cannot ask on here then there is no where to go. You all are my lapband buddies and family.

try miralax or the generic brand at walgreens!! it worked like a charm for me. also add a prune to your daily diet to keep your regular. my doctor made this suggestion the week after surgery.

:D Well I got up this morning at 5:30 and bam here it came and all day everywhere I went it went with me to the bathroom, I even had to make my daughter drive over the speed limit one time to get to the potty fast, I mean fast, and man do I feel better. Felt like I lost 5 lbs. but I did not but I am at 238. And my rings are not swelled shut to my fingers. LOL. But I have to warn you all do not take stool softeners and MOM. It makes your well B--- stay on fire. I hope you all get a kick out of my post, gotta get you to laugh sometimes. Thank you all for all the info. I did get benefiber tasteless and I am gonna try that for 2 weeks and see if this will help me.

LOL! Glad you're feeling better! Try some Miralax in your coffee every morning. It does the trick and has no flavor.

I know these might be some weird suggestions but living a country where I can't seem to find many things like MOM, etc here are some solutions I have found sometimes work to help move things along

• Brown rice
• Bananas ( ie low cal banana bread I make)
• Beans
• yogurt ( Probiotics help)
• flax seed ( can get at costco add to yogurt, shakes, etc)
• coffee
• kimchi
• lots of Water
• aloe juice
• lots of exercise
• coffee covered nuts ( from my experience)
• Benefiber ( shipped from Canada)
• dried mangoes
• prunes
• prune juice

Right now if I have any problems I try coffee with some benefiber. I also have a backup senecot but I dont use it often at all. Usually something on this list helps. You also dont want to over do it because then you might have major diarrhea problems!

Is there any better feeling than finally going to the bathroom after a week?!?! I think not! Lmao!!

Is it okay that I giggled a little? I felt your pain and had to smile because it is not fun!

I had the same problem for two weeks after surgery, I believe. No one told me that the pain medicine tends to constipate you let alone the anesthesia. When I called my doctor's office, they recommended Colace, but that didn't do a thing. I then tried the stool softener/laxative pills with no success. I was drinking Water, taking Fiber...doing everything I could, but nothing worked. And unfortunately, doctors seem to not take this problem as seriously as we suffers think they should.

I ended up using a suppository (my first EVER!) and that handled everything, thank the Lord. I had to use it another time or two, and then things were fine. If I had known what to expect, I would have taken a stool softener the night before surgery like I did the gas medicine. I am all about preventing pain when possible!

So glad you found something that worked...even if a bit too well.

Good luck!!!

Kelley

Stool softners do nothing for me but what has really helped me is warm prune juice! That's something I'm not use to cause I was a regular person but now I get constipated a lot! Cause we don't have the intake that we use to!

I'm still having trouble ack. Just need to eat more fiber probably. I don't mind taking a stool softener or a laxative, but I can't do it everyday obviously

My Doc recommended MiraLAX. I'm sensitive to laxatives and usually get really bad cramps for a few days after taking them, but not with this it's very gentle.