The camera down your throat is an endoscopy but that checks your stomach. You would need a colonoscopy for constipation. That would be a camera up your rear.
It's not all that bad as they give you meds and you don't even know they are doing it. So a change in bowel habits requires the colonoscopy do they can check for colon cancers and polyps.
I had it last year and thankfully because they found polyps that they said could have turned cancerous and removed them.
Glad you got the referral to the consultant. Is it a gastro doctor? I still think the specialist may find otherwise. It could very well be just your medication.
If it's the medication causing your constipation then you will just have to stay on laxatives like I do.
They think my constipation is my medication.
Getting a colonoscopy will rule out more serious things
I'm sorry to hear that you have to wait synapse. It sounds like you got the ball rolling. Hoping you get that reply quickly.
Yes I always think of socialized medicine being better than what we have here in the USA but I guess it's not.
I hear others from other countries telling me they get put on waiting lists.
I guess I should thank the good lord for our medical system over here.
I hope you get the appointment quickly
Keep us posted
I just had a bad bout of constipation again myself here the past few days. Even my laxative was not working.
I had to go to the ER and they gave me enema and gave me the drink that clears your bowels out for colonoscopy. I just finished that today but still feel like somethings is left in there.
I was told that chocolate can contribute to constipation.
I was told to eat high fiber foods. It helps.
Google high fiber foods and you will get a list of foods that you can eat for this.
My doctor was very serious when he said you need to eat high fiber for this and to drink a glass of water after each meal. Also to drink more water throughout the day.
Junk food and sugary food will seriously make it worse.
When mine was acting up bad the only thing I could hold down was whole grain oatmeal and I put a tablespoon of peanut butter and blueberries in it.
Try to eat lots of fruits and vegetables but stay away from bananas because those will constipate you.
Yes I have heard that linseed (flaxseed) can help.
Right now I have had to resort to taking laxatives. I had to add another one to my regimine.
I take senna vegetable laxative 2 pills before I go to bed along with 1 stool softner pill called colace. This takes 6-12 hours before a bowel movement will begin. By the time I wake up and have coffee it gets things moving however, even after I go a few hours later I'm constipated again and can only let out a small pebble.
So now I added the other laxative miralax I take that about 4 hours after I wake up.
I have also added prunes to the regimine . Prunes can work wonders for constipation but you only need to eat 2-4 a day.
My dictor also suggested a probiotic. I picked one up from the pharmacy. It contains lactobacillus and acidophilus.
This regimine is for now working.
I found out I also have a rectocele which is a female prolapse that is most likely complicating my constipation problem.
I hope you have gotten some relic from the linseed.
Does anyone here suffer from IBS?
Posted - 05/08/2016 : 07:01:15
