opiates and constipation

I take 4 5/325 vicodin a day. Started about 11 days ago...and i am having bad constipation. Lots of gas. At least i can pass the gas...but only taken 1 shit in 5 days..trying to drink water ect but no good. So i am going down to 3 pills a day to see if anything changes...what do you guys use? Gas-x helps the bloating from the gas..but that's it.

 

Oooh...you better get that taken care of.

My mother was on a drug that constipated her. Her doctor told her to take Haley's M. O. every day. She didn't do it because she couldn't find it in her store.

She got a rupture in her intestine from trying to pass the hardened stool after finally taking some Milk Of Magnesia.

It was horrible. I was with her at home when she was in terrible pain and passed out in my arms on the toilet. It was very hard to get her conscious again. I thought she had died in my arms.

The ambulance came and they found the rupture in her colon at the hospital. She had to be irrigated because of the bowel contents leaking into her body cavity. You can get Peritonitis from that and it will kill you.

Luckily, her leak healed itself and they did not need to perform surgery to do it.

Take large doses stool softeners and a mild laxative before it gets out of control.

 

Yeah i was going to buy a stool softener tomorrow. I have been passing gas like crazy. From the research i have done it's a good sign even though i haven't taken a shit. If i wasn't passing gas..then i would be in trouble. I am trying to drink a lot of water tonight..that should soften it up..i hope

 

Take a good long walk, or two.

Good Luck with this!

 

yeah they saw exercise helps..maybe i will go for a run tomorrow Thanks!

idk how people takes these meds for years..i would never shit and probably die!

Hell and i stiil have 60 of this prescription and another 80 after this for whenever

 

I drink plenty of water and take metamucil every day. Also high fiber foods help. Whole grain breads and pasta, bran cereal, oatmeal, etc. But the metamucil helps. I would avoid laxatives, because they can be habit-forming.

 

mosdef metamucil.....its a must....for me as well....

 

maybe i will have to pick some up tomorrow...thanks guys

 

This is me when I take narcotic pain killers. It won't come out

That vein in my forehead popped

 

Be thankful a forehead vein is all you've busted!

 

Yeah, I've been there, esp. before I started with the metamucil. It even gave me hemorrhoids from all the straining. And it's not just the discomfort involved, but the possible embarrassment of having to go to the ER and tell them you can't poop. I guess they'd have to give you an enema.

 

I don't seem to have too much trouble with it likely because I take Adderall/amphetamine which is a peripheral nervous system stimulant in addition to its central properties.

 

took a laxative about 2 hours ago...i need to take a shit...even if its the only one for the next week again..i have been drinking soo much water today as well

 

And if you like oatmeal like I do, chow down on that stuff. It also helps. Apples are good too. Remember the old saying an apple a day keeps the doctor away? It also keeps away godzilla-nurse with her enema hose, lol.

 

Pumpkin seeds

 

Another day with nothing. Drank a shit ton of water..went for a long walk. Took laxatives ( only about 3-4 hours ago..say 6-12 to work) ect

May have to stop taking the meds here soon if i don't do. I am not having any stomach pain or anything. Just..haven't gone shit in days and days

Sucks becasue i will be in a lot of pain once i stop taking the meds..ugh

 

You are eating?

 

Yup. Normal intake past 8 days

Like i said no pain..i just find it creepy i can't go #2!

Ugh..

 

Well, as a last resort...I remember when I had back surgery and was in the hospital for a week they had me on so much pain medication that I couldn't go for 6 days. A nurse told me, ok we'll try this one last thing and if you don't go I'll have to give you an enema. I did not want an enema from that woman, lol. So she started giving me doses of a mixture of Milk of Magnesia and prune juice. Yeah, it was as nasty as it sounds. But after two, I'd say 4 oz doses I was finally able to go. It's just an idea.

 

After about day 6 I resort to Magnesium Citrate from Wal-Greens or probably any pharmacy.It WILL make you go.Explosively in most cases,and depending on how backed up you are,painfully.Times I have gone too long before I used this stuff the cramps are terrible at first cause it's moving all the really packed up stuff first but after a while it'll be all liquid.Plan this carefully,you DO NOT want to be caught away from your bathroom when it hits.This review is under Philips Milk of Magesia,,but its for this stuff,read it,,thats what it does to me.And it's SOUR as hell,,I can barely drink it.Best to use fiber and other ways to not have to use this,but if you do,it works.



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