deiwukas said:
Started reta on 04/08 .5 mg. Always had problems with constipation, only remember having good quality poop time during times when i consistently did not eat foods like ice cream, pizzas, alcohol and cola. By quality poop I mean I go to the toilet mostly every 7-9 days. Mostly it is a bigger poop, but not scary or impossible to pass.
Now on reta I made a big mistake and ate ice-cream few days in a row. Now I had an ass destroyer shit on 05/10, I felt like i cant pass it so i used medicine, which helped me, but still, the experience was not pleasure. Now today on 05/19 (even though i had good food and no alcohol during these 9 days, also no poop) I had even worse experience. Currently on 2mg reta. So my thinking is reta makes me poop too hard, its not reta fault, I know my body is just like that.
I have already bought mag07, but internet suggest to not use it constantly. I really don't know what to do, reta works and I want to keep using it, but I also don't want to have such problems ever again, of course I stopped eating ice-cream/milk. The only thing which has lactose in my diet is probably butter/ghee.
Do you have any suggestions on how could I improve my gut? Any similar experiences and how did you made it better? My main concern is that my next toilet experience will be one which will either rip my ass or give me some kind of different problems, because I never pushed so hard as today.
Ok. I don’t have any advice, but I do have a very funny story that recently happened related to constipation. If nothing else, it will help you feel less alone in your struggles.
My family is very tight knit, and sometimes boundaries are a struggle. So my uncle was on Tirz through his doc for about a year, then he stopped it for four months. His A1C went back up and he restarted it, but for some reason they started him back at 7.5mg rather than slowly building him up which led to extreme constipation. He tried laxatives, stool softeners, fiber gummies, and a suppository but none of it worked.
He was in so much pain that he wanted to go to the hospital, but someone convinced him to just do an at home enema. So he does two of those, poops in the shower, whatever it’s fine. All better.
Later that day, he and his family leave for a road trip. My mom warns him that he needs to wear a diaper because of all the stool softeners, laxatives, etc. He refuses because he doesn’t believe it’s even possible to have anything else come out. Whatever, he’s a grown up, he can do what he wants.
So my dad happens to be driving down the highway and passes their car which is stopped on the side of the road, so he stops to see if they’re broken down or something. He is unaware of the poop situation. He’s just thinking maybe they need help changing a tire. So he walks up to the car and my uncle is naked from the waist down and completely covered in poop. It is everywhere. My dad is horrified. My uncle is horrified. This isn’t what anyone signed up for. My dad, being the good person that he is, offers them whatever assistance he can. My uncle rides home in a coat covering his lower body.
So basically, the moral of the story is “listen to my mom” and “you have way more poop in you than you think”
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