Posted by Larry Hoover on March 31, 2009, at 8:33:27
In reply to Re: What could I take for bad constipation?, posted by qbsbrown on March 30, 2009, at 20:29:53
> Am I able to use the suppository more than once a day? Did it this morning, only a few rabbit pebbles.
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> Regards,
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> BrianYes, you can use it more than once a day. It's a local irritant. It draws fluid into the bowel, and induces muscle contractions. However, if the "yield" was rabbit turds, I'm going to suggest heavy artillery to get the backlog cleared out. The downside risk of severe constipation is called fecal impaction. A large stool forms that is too hard and too big to pass through the anus. It must be mechanically removed by medical personnel. The rabbit turd phenomenon is probably fragments breaking off such a hard mass, which can continue to enlarge.
Whenever that happened to me, I used a Fleet enema, which contains sodium phosphates. I could pick up a generic version for a couple of bucks, available at any pharmacy. It works rapidly, within 2 to 5 minutes.
After getting the "cork out of the bottle" I was usually able to maintain better flow with stimulant laxatives, with the occasional suppository.
Fleet enemas are not for routine use. But nobody wants this sort of constipation to be routine either.
Lar
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