Conditions
Constipation
Constipation is extremely common and can affect a broad range of ages. It is generally defined as a problem in opening the bowels, but it can also mean opening the bowels less often than normal (perhaps less than three times a week) or passing hard or pellet-like stools on more than a quarter of occasions. Cases range from the acute (occasional and temporary) to the chronic (persistent), and can be triggered by poor diet; irregular mealtimes, and certain medication (particularly codeine-based painkillers and antacids containing aluminium). There are no long term complications for anyone suffering from constipation, although it can be a symptom of Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS). And with all the eye-bulging straining on the throne, you may also end up with a case of piles or an anal fissure. Still, it’s nothing that a high-fibre diet and lots of fruit and vegetables can’t sort.
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Hi. Im not quite sure what is wrong with me, I dont think Im constipated, as I dont feel like I need to go to the toilet and I cant, its just I only go for a number 2 maybe once or twice a week. This has only been over the last year but has really affected my diet and made me put on weight. But every few months I get very bad diarrhoea for about a week or 2, where I go to the toilet at least twice a day, and after Ive been to the toilet I feel like I need it again. I dont want to take laxatives because one month I cant go to the toilet and the next month I cant get off it. What could this be? thank you x
please help…. i have been to the doctor twice and i am still constipated. i am 25, and have not done a poo in nearly 3 weeks. it is not my diet i eat v. healthy. doc prescribed movicol sachets and milpar. i have tried everything over the counter, today for example i have taken 2 teaspoons of epsom salts in boiled water, 8 sachets of movicol, 60mls of milpar, and still nothing. i am going to burst, feel so sick and uncomfortable. i cried today wen i left doc, i felt so dismissed, she just told me to increase my intake of movicol. please, please can you help me.
im 34 and have been back from holiday about 6 days now. took 3 days after getting back to go to toilet but my stools are black in colour.this has happened for 3 days now. is it normal?
I've been havin constipation problems for very long, I may go once in 2weeks wit a very little amount. I'm 20. The medicines ive ever been prescribed hardly work on me.I never had any side effects until recently my stomachs been comin out nd ive gained like 5kgs. Its really embarasing. I'd truly appreciate some advice on this,Thnx
Oh please somebody help me…I have not been able to go to the toleit for 3 days now.Nothing comes out…It's very uncomfortable.Even when I strain which never happened before nothing comes out.Straining hurts a lot,and nothing comes out..I feel like the stools are still in the rectum,but they won't come out.I took some laxatives like senokol but without no effect and milk of magnesia too.I'm scared because my intestinal habits were like clockwork.Now everything changed…Please somebody help me
hi, im 23 and i have constipation for a while. But for last couple weeks im bleeding wehn i do numbre2 . yesterday i found a bit of flesh while . im really worried please let me know if its sirious. thanks
hi i had my baby boy 9 months ago now. and since ive had him ive have been constipated i manage to go nearly everyday but its so hard to go to the toilet am sumtimes on it for a hour for it to come out. just latley i have been getting really bad stomach ache when i need to get now and now am getting worried to go can you please help me?
Hi i'm 36 and for the past few months been constipated on and off.I go regularly for a few days and stop for two to three days,in the two to three days i get terrible cramps around my ovary's not my stomach and find it uncomfortable to sit.Is this normal for me to get this only after a few days,even sex can start cramps off.
Hi,I am 21 and have started going the gym regularly, since starting i have been taking a protein and carbohydrate shake after each gym session, each consisting of 3 scoops of the powder and a pint of water. Recently I have became constipated and have spots on my chest could this be anything i should worry about? Thanks
hi im a 16 year old girl, and i struggle to go to the toilet, maybe once a week if that. I went to the doctors yesterday and I was prescribed senna tablets (two tablets daily) and also laxido (one sachet daily). So i took them yesterday, bearing in mind i had a really bad head it felt like really heavy, as well as this i'm getting chest pains in which i can't sleep on my front ( i usually do), the chest pains happen when i'm eating and sometimes just randomly when i'm sitting down, it's like just above my left rib. As well as this I burp and hiccup alot, i constantly feel like my food is stuck in my food pipe and struggle to burp. But the doctor said I have to start going to the toilet and then they will look into the rest of it. So anyway I took my tablets yesterday and was tryin to sleep but i can't lay on my front as it hurts my chest, and when i lay my head on the pillow my head hurts so i have been waking up like every half an hour, needing a drink taking a paracetomal to help my head and to get my temperature down because one minute i'm hot and then cold, mum says i'm like a hot water bottle. But I woke up and when to the toilet, and was sick everywhere (puked up my dinner, and the carrots were whole) and went for a number two and its just like gushing out and it really stinks. And it's just like water gushing, and when i look down the toilet it's dark but cloudy (senna tablets might colour my urine) but I have bad belly ache so in the bath i go, run to the bathroom to go number two again. But now my bum is really sore? I still feel abit sick so i have had just dry toast no butter or anything, I weighed myself yesterday and today and over night I have lost 3 pounds. I get on the toilet and soon again i'm on it again, please help
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