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Taking Miralax and Meta Mucil in the same day
Hi everyone who is living with abdominal adhesions. I have been trying to learn to live with this for several months now without much help from my doctors. I'm on a very low fiber diet and take a small dose of Miralax daily on doctor's orders. I normally have two or three soft stools daily but for about the last month I have been having an episode of diarrhea once a day. this is not every day but is happening pretty frequently.
My question is can I also take Meta Mucil daily to help add bulk to my stool?
Any advice here would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you and good luck with your own adhesions.
Doc Meehan
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Thank you... actually I don't take any meds..& eat a relatively healthy diet. The sudden change happened May 1st... & the round of tests/info I've gotten seem to point toward some scar tissue or adhesions. The colorectal surgeon wants to try other options before surgery (which I guess is good). But it's been 3 months of discomfort.. very little eating & im confused. The GIs just prescribe Linzess (which doesn't work)... the surgeon is gone for two weeks & im trying to figure out what to do & what surgery would actually entail!
docm, I don't have colitis or IBDs.
I have CIC(chronic idiopathic 💩) for 17 years and counting, I'm 65. I have tons of other problems, so I don't know what causes what anymore. It does sound odd, to take a 💩bulker and a 💩stopper together, but my extensively broad studies of 💩💩‼️ has led me to this " DO WHAT WORKS FOR YOU ", such profound insight. HAHA. Like Ridley uses citracel instead of Metamucil, cuz of gas. Rashida brought up the question of plastics being involved. I'm gonna look into that, cuz plastic is so bad. When I am not dead exhausted, I use 3 capfuls of miralax and 5 Metamucil gummy's. I don't know why, but the gummy's work a bit better and consistent for me. Had to take a break, this reminded me to take another gummy and drink some miralax (I put just a bit of sugar free OJ) it makes the miralax more like a drink, not a medicine type. I am fortunate to be retired so I'm able to not worry so much about am I going to have diarrhea or am I going to be clogged up. Other problems added to this, I rarely leave my house. My ex-GI doctor said it is safe to take both of these at higher doses for long long periods. Notice, he is my ex GI, for many reasons, so I can't say that this is safe, but I do what I need to do for me. After 2 partial SBO(small bowel obstruction)that I was able to clear out by guzzling miralax and eating little solid foods; and 1 partial SBO that ended up in ER, then ICU and nasal gastric tube for 3 days. And 3 blockages in the anus that required digital removal (by me, for those of you who have not had the experience of this, OMG pain, sweat, pain etc 1x fainted and fell off the toilet. ), I am basically terrified of constipation. Shelley
docm, my first post was getting tooo long.
You mentioned you have abdominal adhesions.
I am wondering if I do.
How did you get tested? Type of doctor? What were your symptoms? What are your adhesions from?
Do you expect to ever have surgery to remove/treat/minimize them?
Thanx, Shelley
Judy, it is good that you don't take meds. The only thing I can think of is to clear yourself out and try, just to see what happens, very liquidy hot cereals, smoothies, pureed vegetable soups. Pea protein powder and egg whites do well in hot cereal.
Alternatively, could it be IBS-C? Could you be FODMAP sensitive? A few years ago my IBS went postal and I lost weight and was uncomfortable. Now I have a short list of foods that don't trigger it, along with stress reduction exercises. It is definitely a regime.
As far as a doctor goes, make sure you have confidence in him or her. I would want a gifted surgeon if I needed such. I have had good luck limiting most of my docs to those on Castle and Connally. That firm researches the doctors listed and do not accept money from any of them.