I suffer with the same issue:( at first my Dr. said use Miralax, which works for the immediate problem but does not want me on it long term. He told me to suppliment my fiber intake with over the counter fiber pills. I went to the health food store instead and they recommended ground flax seed, 1-2 teaspoons mixed in cereal or yogurt. I started out slowly with 1 teaspoon and had results the next day and so far it has continued to work. Its natural, doesnt taste bad and is good for you. Hope your feeling better soon.

Elainy - I'm guessing that your fiber intake is probably a little low, like the rest of us. I try to get it in at every opportunity. Fiber Crystal Light, Fiber One cottage cheese.

My doc also recommends taklng Colace - a mild stool softener.

Hope this helps.

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Hi there. I am 13 months out and started having extreme constipation around month 4. I was using stool softeners like crazy, then enemas, then suppositories, and miralax and oh my... you name it, I tried it!
I was admitted tot he hospital in September after having this issue so bad that I vomiting just trying to strain the poop and eventually just from drinking water. Xrays and CT scan showed that I had impacted bowels up so high into my intestines the the enemas and suppositories at home couldn't help. The straining forced a small hernia that then wrapped my bowels around it.
So the hospital gave me an "old school" milk and molasses enema. The mixture apparently grabs everything stuck inside you and forces it out... VIOLENTLY! But it worked! I had surgery 6 days later and the hernia had already receded and released the bowel.
Every day since the blessed event, I have mixed miralax in my morning coffee and taken a colace stool softener with each dose of calcium. I go every single day (I track it on an app on my phone called "poop diary" - I sh*t you not!) and it's never super hard. BM's are effortless and productive and sometimes several times a day.
Be your own advocate... don't let the dr's tell you to "try this or that" for as many months as I did. I could have seriously saved myself the hernia surgery if I'd demanded xrays months before.

I have always had this issue but now its so much worse. mirolax takes about 4 days then it bloats me and I gain 6-9 lbs while on it.
I do a stool softener. no fiber supliments because they made me worse years ago my doc said fiber takes fluid out of your intestines thats what that was about. current doc has me on colace 3x a day told me to drink hot hot coffee in the am and excercise and drink water not juice or anything else water it does matter.
I also find vitimins constipating but ya gotta do what you gotta do sometimesll then I go to laxitives if all that dosent work

Jennibean good to hear from you. I have the same problem. I take miralax every night in a cup of hot green tea. I'm having the worse time with going to the bathroom. At one point I thought for sure I was going to have to go to the emergency room. Couldn't get it out and I was tearing on the inside worse freaking pain ever. Even with miralax I haven't gone now in about three days. I have a drs appt coming up. Other than the bathroom issues everything is good. I think I need the poop ap on my phone! This is crazy. Never had problems before not sure why now after surgery.

I'm right there with ya! Miralax worked for me before surgery but seems a bit slow to work now. I hate the thought of ingesting one more thing in addition to the calcium, vitamins, pepcid and my other meds. But a girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do. Best to you!

I started having problems with constipation also and found an amazing supplement that works for me. It's called "Prunelax" and I get it at Walgreen's. 2 pills at night and it helps me have gentle, reliable results.

I guess there is prune extract in it and senna. Check with your health care provider to make sure it is ok for you. I had a sleeve-type surgery, so I haven't had any re-arrangement of my intestines.

Here it is on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Prunelax-Advanced-Senna-Laxative-Tablets/dp/B00166DJSW

I already had x rays done and everything looks good. the stuff they made me drink cleaned me out but made me sick, that was a few weeks back.. I tried pills, and I drink hot coffee each morning and it was working but now I back where I was a few weeks a go. It got to the point that tonight I used a suppository but I am hurting and need to fix this issue. thank you for all the tips I am going to try them all till I find something that works. I am to the point I will do almost anything to fix this

I am having the same problem I tried every thing enama,suppositories
citrate magneusium prune juice stool softner Laci LE Beau super dieters tea,smooth move you name it I tried it all. It works that one time and the next day I'm right back where I started .I am going to put the flax seeds in my protein and see what happens this don't make sense to be stopped up this bad .I wish you luck and if you find the answer please let us know because that is a problem that is not plesant
Jazz

This may not help but I had a SERIOUS issue for a while, finally figured out it was my allergy meds...because they dry you out. I just sniffle and sneeze away now, the meds are not worth the pain and suffering they cause elsewhere!

I'm still pre op, but am a firm (yet soft! LOL!) believer in ground flax seeds for fiber. I keep a little container in the door of my frig and sprinkle them in EVERYTHING! :)

One thing to remember .... Little in, Little out.

Something we all forget, before surgery, we were eating a lot of food and a lot of waste was coming out.

Now we aren't taking in as much and there's very little to come out, so sometimes it feels like we're constipated just because we haven't gone in a day or two

Another thing, I've found is Citrucel rather than a 'bulk forming laxative' (generic version at Walmart is cheap) and making sure to drink a bottlfe of water with each capsule. Start off with 1 a day, then go to 2 a day until you find your dose.

Herbal Remedy For Constipation - http://www.vitolax.com/?id=61b6c6 I received the order and it was on time and the pills work great.

I was camping with my family this week and had this problem. I though my husband was going to have to rush me to the ER. After 3 days it finally moved. I never won't to go through that kind of pain again. I sure don't want to have other problems because of it that's for sure. Thanks for posting this I now have more ideas.