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Taking too much exlax
I know none of you our docters, but I am so desperate. I'm 16 and I've been taking exlax almost everyday for over a year. Sometimes when I go off and I just have alot of coffee and then I'll go, but I have coffee every morning and it isn't working anymore, I can't go days feeling bloated and gross, and I try eating foods that will help like prunes and fruit but nothings working. Is there anything I can do? I'm freaking out please help!
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Also, your body can get addicted to over the counter medications for anything you can think of, nasal spray for stuffy nose...happened to me, and of course, anti diarrhea meds or constipation meds as in your case. I once read a warning about those two when reading a book from a friend on embracing one's menopause years naturally. It said that being plagued with the extremes of going from constipated to the runs next with out me doing a thing different was one of the things that would happen, and to expect it. But it told not to take laxatives or anti diarrhea meds because that would only mess my body up further and I would become dependent on them and make my problem actually worse.
I can't even guess what it was that started you on this path but right now, I'd say your body has 'unlearned' how to do a natural process in this years time and its high time you get some expert professional help, perhaps a dietician to help. I do know that some exercise will help move things along. When I began to some some stretchs like yoga, even a simple one of laying on my back and bringing one knee at a time up to my chest in stretches, that helped move things along. Walking, bicycling or any other exercise that will pump the legs or twist and exercise the torso help me too. Even dogs will go better after a walk. I remember dogs we've had who when let out in the yard to do their thing in the morning or before a walk, rarely went poo, but about halfway through a walk, all of a sudden they needed to go and wouldn't walk any further until I let them poo. The walking was enough exercise to move things along to the point of the urge to go. Sometimes I will massage my stomach deeply like kneading dough, not to hurt but enough to help massage the gut and sometimes it helps with releasing trapped gas. You might want to study what items you drink or eat have a tendency to dry you out to the point of not being able to go. Increasing water is a help but alcohol dries a person up, coffee does to others, while to others coffee gives the runs. Too much starchy foods can block you up too. I will even go as far as to say in my experience that ones moods and emotions can play a part. When upset or stressed for more than one day or two, I will either get the runs or become blocked up. Emotions can affect our body health in many different areas. I don't believe at your age that it is one big thing that has become a medical issue/problem, but likely a handful of innocent seeming things or situations that all add up to cause this problem. Seeing the Dr. would be a good start. If they prescribe a new stool softener without suggesting other changes, you might ask to see a dietician and getting more help on at least the food/nutrition part of it and doing some online research yourself to find non ingestable ways to help your situation along like particular exercises. Put in searches for 'alternative health options for constipation' or a phrase like 'exercises that help with constipation', try different phrases until one comes up with some hits and then study and try what you find. But start with a Dr. to rule out any major life threatening problem or some abdominal obstruction. Good luck dear.
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You'll get the same answer from me that I give to anyone who posts a medical question on advicenators: see a doctor.
Bowel cancer is a thing, ok?
See a doctor.
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You are correct we are not doctors though you do need to see one and the one I suggest is a proctologist. All jokes aside about this specialist doctor they are the best trained to deal with the problem you are having.
We all will suffer from mild constipation from time to time. TO suffer from it daily is not healthy neither is taking a laxative daily. There are any number of reasons why you may suffer from this problem though without an examination I would not begin to guess what it may be.
Your family doctor should be able to suggest or refer you to proctologist; or if you want you could call your local hospitals patient referral line to be placed with one of their staff doctors or a doctor with privileges at that hospital.
I once had a problem for which I needed a specialist and chose to ask a local hospital for a referral. I chose one of the three Trauma Centers, the closest one to me, in the area that also happened to be a teaching hospital as it has a school of medicine attached to it. I felt that this was probably the best way of seeing a top doctor in the specialty I needed to see. If you happen to have a trauma center or teaching hospital near you I would suggest calling one of them for a referral as these hospital generally have the top doctors in their field attached to them.
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