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[crash]

I'm a t-12, mostly my bowels are ok but latley they have been way too hard. I've gotten away without having to use stool softeners. I was wondering if many people use them. Do they cause accidents?

[Lucydog]

I take it you mean a gentle laxitive. Lactulose works pretty well as does fibagel. personally I dont have that much problem in this area, Im more the opposite actually!

[coolparaguy]

I use mini enema. It was prescribed by my Neurologist when I was in the rehab and I have been using it since then--12 yrs. Sometimes I run out of it and use the local pharmacy kind (Fleet) but I noticed that the mini enema is faster in emptying my bowel. You can get them here: http://shopinprivate...minen30ctr.html

Hope that helps

[Danielle87]

I was that way in the hospital and I took this stuff called Senekot or something like that. Its over the counter and its more mild than the laxatives and doesn't make your bowels too soft and doesn't cause accidents. Hope that helps!

[bigsmiles]

Yes Senekot are really good and natural containing senna, just take at bed time .Also prunes or figs if you like em.

[LadyPilot]

Despite eating a healthy junk free diet with lots of fibre I still have to use a combination of Ex-lax, Senokot and Ortisan. Plus a Micralax enema to get started. I rarely, if ever get bowel accidents.

I agree that figs and prunes work wonders. But those little pips in figs are horrible when you're doing a manual evacuation




added coz it's cute!!!

[mrsE]

I take lactulose twice daily to soften and senokot once a week to keep things moving but I am now peri-meopausal and am even more constipated than usual so take Movicol(?) every now and then which makes things very loose (don't like taking that - manual evacuation becomes nearly imposible). I sometimes take fibagel and it works well but I don't like all the additives in it.
I am about to try some different stuff - colon care+ by Holland & Barrett which is psyllium husk powder (like fibagel) and also some slippery elm capsules. I think that taking these will do the same job as fibagel but without the nasties. I hope they work because the pain of constipation and wind is awful.
I was also eating bran and dried fruit but they just gave me a lot of wind.

[Dancingdolphin]

Hi Crash! I use movicol every other night before the morning of the manual evac.....have an accident about every 10 weeks! But fine in between!! good luck

[Philip]

everytime i try a stool softener I have accidents. I can't tell you if this is something that my system will get use to and stop happening. I don't take the risk. It's something you will have to try and see what it will do for you. chances are if you are always having hard stool you can take it without a problem.

[cvelusc]

Did some research and decided to ask my family doctor to put me on Zelnorm. In addition, I ingest fiber 3/day and have noticed a significant ease in bowel movements. As our injury levels differ, I can only hope that Zelnorm may work for you too.

[Chilepepper]

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Edited by Chilepepper, 21 September 2006 - 08:34 AM.

[cdngrl]

I eat my fibre but never enough I'm somewhat of a naturalist so I take norweigian kelp which is also good for the spine, and flax seed oil.

[RYAN68]

i was put on senokot and another softener in the hospital, and was told to contiue taking them, but a couple of months ago i got tired of taking a handful of pills, so far so good. I havent had any accidents since I quit taking them, unless i didnt fully empty my bowels for some reason or another

[rkzenrage]

Been taking Ducolux for a while, works well for me.

[Texaswheelz]

Corn and Mushrooms keep my quite regular....