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Slow gi motility with severe constipation

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Where is your outlet obstruction? Like where your stomach meets your small Intestines?????? Have you had a CT or MRI, an EGD and Colonoscopy and a Sitz study( tells how long it takes to pass the radiopaque pill). There are more test also. I have to take miralax mixed with magnesium citrate every night at 7:30 pm and without fail I use Linzess 290 mg daily at 5 am with six glasses of very warm water. Half hour later I eat breakfast. I usually have a BM 45 min later. I also drink lots of water and eat high fiber and chew my food well. I also take digestive enzymes. If you do alcohol or any drugs or even meds for nerve pain that will hault motility. I have severe arthritis in hands and low back and some nerve compression in back. Dr wanted me to take gabapentin( neurontin) 600 mg three times a day. Three days on that and I was major stoned and I didn’t have a BM until I was off of it for a week. Now I only take 100 mg in the morning and Celebrex . I’m sort of glad my intestines are slow because it has prevented me from using pain meds and becoming addicted. I would go ahead and take the Amitiza as instructed but maybe in addition try a bottle of Mag Citrate with some ducolax. Check with your Dr first!!!! It can cause major dehydration and electrolyte imbalance and other problems but they use this to clean people out for colonoscopies. Drink Gatorade after doing this. Only do this as instructed by your Dr. Also eat a soft diet, low residue until you get unblocked, or just liquids, but if your completely blocked you will have nausea, vomiting, pain, distention don’t eat anything and go to ER. I also use an abdominal massager before and after every meal. If you truly have an obstruction with multiple ER visits you need to have more test and possibly time for a GI surgeon. Not always the answer and if they remove the part that’s blocked, scar tissue can form and other issues can arise but sometimes it solves the problems. Drs today are a different breed than they were in the past( dumbing down), lower standards. Can’t critical think without a million test, no ability to listen to the patient and evaluate signs and symptoms. It is “ok” for you to be proactive about your issue; you know your body.

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bb. yeah they have done no test but CT and X-ray, I can't get any of these GI Drs to help me I can do msg citrate doculax senna miralax, nothing but liquid comes out. I might push out a small piece but it shuts off, it feels like it stops in my colon by my bladder, but my right upper quadrine is always full of stool too. 2 colonoscopys neither one worked, had stool in me still. This motility specialist keeps telling me the same thing and it hasn't worked for 3 weeks.

@bb03 BB I drank a bottle of magnesium citrate 4 ducolaxe and 4 caps of miralax, one 3 inch piece came out now just water, I haven't had a BM since the 24th, well a little bit on the 1st. But I made an appointment for my specialist in Hershey PA on Monday. I'm on a liquid diet so I can hopefully work Monday. What test can I ask for to tell me what part of my intestines aren't working??? I can feel stool move and then a tightness in my lower stomach by my bladder and it just stops dead. How are you doing??? I feel bad even telling you about my problems, but I'm headed for an obstruction, I can't believe when I went 24 days that it didn't happen. I really don't want a colonoscopy bag but if I can stay alive I'll take it. They've done sepsis blood work on me twice and there was not growth in 120 hours. But these ERs don't want to do anything but enemas and Golytley, and if you've ever been diagnosed with ileus you are not supposed to do Golytley. I hope you are doing okay. Please tell me what to say to this gastro Dr. She's just not listening to me.