Bit of a Blockage!

[topbird]

sorry if this is way TMI..... if you are eating, leave this one and come back later!


.... but has anyone else got constipation?

I eat so healthily - huge bowl of fruit & fibre cereal for breakfast, 3/4 peices of fruit during the day, at least 3 vegetables with my dinner and I am having real problems this week.

I have had IBS on and off for about 10 years so I have been taking fybogel in the evening, but even this had not touched it.

What else can I do???

 

[OopsyDaisy]

How much fluid do you drink each day? Fybogel and other high fibre foods require fluid to help push everything through the system.

 

[*saulino*]

Hi

I agree i say plenty of fluids and i was consitipatied this whole pregnancy so far until i went grocery shopping on satureday and bought grapes.
Kiara and i have both eaten them every day this week and have become regular i couldnt beleive it! Usually i dont go for days so i wold suggest grapes and see if they work
Katrina

 

[topbird]

Hi, I drink water constantly throughout the day - must have 10 or so plastiic cups of water at work and probably have 3/4 glasses of squash/ fruit juice in the evening/ morning at home, so I don't think it is lack of liquid!! Will try eating grapes and see if it helps.

thanks girlies

 

[xHeatherx]

I have it too, and trapped wind. So painful. I tried prunes but haven't found anything that really helps.

 

[Sabrina]

Top Bird, have you tried the usual things like apricots, prunes, rhubarb etc? What about some boiled water with a spoon of sugar (old wives remedy)? I have found, in the past, orange juice and freshly ground coffee work to "unblock" me.

Since I've been pregnant I've had the complete opposite problem though.

 

[topbird]

Thanks for that honey - not heard of any of them before..... Rhubarb only just breaking the surface on the allotment at the moment, so will have to wait a month or so for that one.

Might get myslef some prunes and have them on my cereal, though problem seems to be resolving itself shall we say. I skived off work yesterday afternoon early and went shopping and I think the walk helped, so I am going to try going for a walk round the block after dinner in the evening too. Need to do some exercise anyway, am a right lazy cow at the moment!

 

[pip]

Hi, just wanted to pop in and let you know i am going through exactly the same thing....i'm 8 weeks pg but have been well and truly blocked since day 1....i went 10 days without passing anything at all....like you my diet is so healthy at least 4 pieces of fruit a day...lots of veg with my dinner and i hardly eat any junk (epecially made an effort not to eat junk when i found out i was pg) and i always make sure i drink plenty of fluids.
In the end i was so depressed and bloated i went to the doctor and he gave me a mild enema to get rid of everything....boy did it work...i even weighed myself before and after i took it and i'd lost 4lb in poo
Since then i am more regulated although i still have to take senekot and fiborgel to keep me going but i haven't got into that state again thankfully.

If it is making you feel how i did then a quick visit to your doctor should sort you out....i didn't like the idea of taking an enema during pregnancy but doctor reasured me it was perfectly safe and i figured it must be better than storing up all that waste which can't be good for either mum nor baby.

Just thought i'd share that with you

 

[topbird]

Hi Pip,

Thanks for the info..... think normal service has resumed for the meantime - had been about 6 days though so was getting worried and had actually made an appt with the doc for next week (closest appt I could get was next Thursday!). Will get some more fybogel on prescription and see if she will give me some senekot incase it happens again.

Hope the rest of tri 1 goes well for you and see you in here proper in 4 weeks time

(though you are more than welcome to stay now... didn't mean it like that!)

 

[*saulino*]

Hi

Glad things have cleared a bit for you
Katrina

 

[Sabrina]

I'm glad your little problem has fixed itself TopBird. You are probably right in that the walk may have helped. I'm also guilty of being a bit lazy these days. I should try harder