Suggest Treatment For Chronic Constipation

Posted on Sun, 2 Aug 2015

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Sun, 2 Aug 2015 Answered on

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Question : I suffer from chronic constipation, have tried everything, increase fiber, water and exercise. In addition, tried prebiotics and probiotics. I am not any daily medication. My diet is healthy. Had a colonscopy about a month and everything was fine, just had a "nurses" colon, a lot of twist and turns. What can I take/do that is non-habit forming to have a bm daily or at least every other day?

Thank you.

Answered by Dr. Prashant (5 hours later)

Brief Answer:
try polyethylene glycol preparation

Detailed Answer:
Hi,
chronic constipation is a pain I can understand, the solution for this is maintain the diet what you are already on like high fibre diet lot of green leafy vegetables with this you can try MOVICOL its a polyethylene glycol powder mix it in a glass of water twice daily and later once daily for couple of weeks ,later when ever you need .
this is definitely help you in relieving the symptoms.
hope this information helps you
thank you

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Yogesh D

Follow up: Dr. Prashant (1 hour later)

I forgot to mention, I have tried the Movicol and Psyllium Husk. Any other recommendations on what to do for chronic constipation that are not habit forming?

Than you for your time.

Answered by Dr. Prashant (6 hours later)

Brief Answer:
try movicol in higher dose

Detailed Answer:
Hi,
try movicol in higher dose like daily twice or thrice and later you can taper accordingly woth the diet modification what I explained.
This should work because its a very good molecule
thank you

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar