Hi

I am a little over two months out of surgery and am having trouble with constipation. I never had any problems before surgery. Can anyone share what they do for these symptoms. I do not think we can take fiber because it expands in the pouch right? Any help would be appreciated.

April:mellow::confused2::biggrin:

my dr didnt like me taking the chewable benefiber post surgery (too bad they were yummy). Ive taken stool softner in pill form for years but when I was a bit too tight I tried Miralax. that worked okay but I recently started with the suppliment of acidophilous and let me tell you THAT works oh so well!

What form is the supplement? Pill? Where do you get it?

For those of you that are using Milk of magnesia. How much, how often do you take? Does it make you have to go right away or more naturally? I don;t want to be caught off guard.

I tried the recommended dose of Miralax once, but wow it worked fast and was too much, I had the runs all the next day. I guess I could reduce the dose. Just prefer for the urge to be more natural.

I started with benefiber but it doesn't seem to be strong enough, but it does soften, to make it easier when I do go.

This and too much gas has been the two biggest challenges in this lap band for me.

anyone find anything that works for the gas?

OMG...I have been waiting for someone to bring this up. I have been having a lot of problems with this. I mean problems that have caused me to need to take actual suppositories (spelling?) like every other day because I thought something was wrong. Then today out of no were I had some apple juice and I was able to go on my own. I am going to go stock up on yogart and juices. Hopefully, this will help. I was really getting very, very worried for a while! Thanks to this support group I know now that I am not dying but instead this is just an after effect of the surgery. :thumbdown:

I am 51 and have had a major problem with constipation all my life. I am 2 weeks post op and I have found a great solution for this problem. We are allowed sugar free pop cycles so I started buying the sugarfree fruit bars and they work like a charm. They have about 30 calories apiece. I have to eat a few of them but they kick in and keep me regular. Hope this works for you

What form is the supplement? Pill? Where do you get it?

For those of you that are using Milk of magnesia. How much, how often do you take? Does it make you have to go right away or more naturally? I don;t want to be caught off guard.

I tried the recommended dose of Miralax once, but wow it worked fast and was too much, I had the runs all the next day. I guess I could reduce the dose. Just prefer for the urge to be more natural.

I started with benefiber but it doesn't seem to be strong enough, but it does soften, to make it easier when I do go.

This and too much gas has been the two biggest challenges in this lap band for me.

anyone find anything that works for the gas?

yeah the Miralax worked too well for me too. I found the supplements at Trader Joes but I think you can find them in just about any vit shoppe.I got the recommendation off of these boards. Do have some gas issues with them.

Can you take pills? Have you tried colace? They help me way more than adding fiber