I am so glad to see you reaching out, i also have the problem with going, but i do all kinds of things. First once a day 5pm i take a 3/4 cup prune juice, then i get Bob's red mill Ground flaxseeds, and i take 4 tablespoons and put it in warm water and drink that. I get the flax seed ground from Swanson mail order, store in freezer) In the morning I take 2 "Colon Helper" from HCBL vitamin mail order and then 2 aloe vera gel (not just leaf the gel) I get mine from puritan pride mailorder.
Its also important to eat more leafy greens and like you are doing lots of water. Even with exercise, i walk with cane and active, i was told that my bowel is affected by the ms and will always be. So now i am going to get technical, so i don't strain and i am able to finish going, i do a procedure that is called splinting, ask your doctor, i take my clean, right thumb and gently push it into my vagina, and follow up along the upper part of it.
The bowel is so close that you can feel the boop that is in your intestines, well go up three inches and push your thumb and push the boop out, I know this may be gross to some people but its the only way i can go usually, of course their are times i can go all by myself but most days its what i have to do.
Of course keep your thumb nail clipped so you don't injure yourself, but if someone would have told me that sooner it would have been nice, after that then strain a little and another piece will move down then repeat the thumb, so any of you that think this is too much information i suppose you are right but its the way i can go. Of course men can't do this but for a woman it works just fine. So anyway, give it a try.
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Originally posted by laurakim
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