What's your best solution to constipation?

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We wrote a blog post on an easy recipe for a high-fiber snack that helps get things moving (http://bit.ly/thebestrecipe). Do you have anything you rely on when things get slowed down?

 

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Lots of fresh fruit & veggies, bran. I hate the meds that are out there to "assist", I would rather do it with diet instead.

 

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I have gastroparesis, or stomach paralysis. The recommended diet for this is low residue. This causes constipation; I soil myself when diarrhea leaks around the blockage. On my gastroenterologist's recommendation, I manage this with stool softeners, laxatives, bisacodyl suppositories, and enemas. Managing my diet when my stomach and colon make opposite demands is a challenge that I sometimes fail.

 

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An occasional stool softener, plus a hot drink with an iced water.

 

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Lots of veggies and salad and Fiber One bars and fruit snacks helped me to keep,things moving when I was taking the anticholinergics hoping for relief from medication for the OAB.

 

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Don't get constipated my Urologist told me, do what ever you have too, really effects bladder when you are

 

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Drink a hot beverage, along with an iced beverage (black coffee and iced water).
Also, stool softeners help. I take two a night.

 

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Magnesium Citrate
I take 500 mg a day for constipation from Multiple Sclerosis and no mobility.

 

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It try to manage with diet but not always successful (oatmeal, salads, popcorn, almonds, apples, lots of fluids, etc). My doctor prescribed Colace (stool softener) as needed and daily PEG3350 (polyethylene glycol, like Miralax). Have to be careful though because if it gets loose then lose control there too!

 

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Ground flax seed in anything I can add it to; psyllium in a fruit smoothie and / or stool softener. The flax seed is my preference because I have had a head injury and it makes a big difference in my clarity of thought. Even my dreams make more sense when I use it.

 

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I take 1 s/w heaping tsp of the generic benefiber, daily, just before going to bed. Works wonders for me, helped get me regulated. I also have to take 2 lomotil twice daily. BTW,it takes a few months to get regulated, no matter what you try. I learned the hard way, thought I knew more than my doc. You know how we all sometimes get, especially when the answer seems so common or simple.

Also, I'm a country boy & love eating a big bowl of soup beans & cornbread. Not wanting to have diarrhea, I ask my doc about skipping my fiber on days I had that meal. He told me to never skip it, no matter what I had to eat, and no matter how much fiber content was in my meal. Works for me!
Lee