1st Trimester
Constipation help!
Hello, I have been having some contipation lately...still able to go but it is a lot of work. I have never experienced this before so this is a new area for me. I have eating fiber one bars and choking down prune juice. Any other suggestions? I can't stand the prune juice and I am wondering if there is something out there that might help better. I am on Zofran which I know can make constipation worse:(
Thanks for any help you can give me!
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Re: Constipation help!
Just eat as much fiber as you can, and eat it daily.
You can also try apples, peaches, apple juice, apple cider, and my doctor gave me the ok to use metamucil or other fiber products that you add to beverages. Fiber one also makes Pop Tarts, which I have been eating lately too.
I'm on Zofran too, and it's like my gut is paralyzed.
I'm taking Colace 100 mg tablets, one or two per day. You also have to make sure to get enough fluids or it won't work.
I tried adding benefiber to my liquids at first too, but it wasn't enough. I tried Miralax, but it made my drinks taste weird, and I was still too nauseated to tolerate it.
Just FYI, I still felt really crappy on zofran and phenergan, so I started taking reglan yesterday and I feel like it's helping a lot more, and it's not constipating - it actually even helps you go, since the way it works is to make things move through your GI tract faster. So if you find zofran isn't working well enough for you, you can ask about it. (I haven't taken any zofran since yesterday afternoon, and I would usually be taking my second dose right about now.)
Nope, over the counter...
The natural approach would be Flax Seed...you can get it anywhere. I recommend buying the whole seed kind and grinding it up once you get home. You can grind it with a coffee grinder or just squish it with a spoon. I use about two spoon fulls and it it in the morning with yogurt, cereal, or a smoothie whatever you prefer.
With Flaxseed there's no questioning if it's ok for baby, because it's natural and comes from mother earth!
DS #1 born January 2010. DS #2 due June 2014.