@heyjoe415 Yes, I used to worry that not having a bowel movement for a few days was "dangerous," but it isn't, unless there is severe belly pain, fever, or something else going on, in which case: call a doctor or go to the emergency room because there could be something more serious going on. If it weren't for my hemorrhoids and annoying dietary restrictions, I wouldn't even need to pay that much attention to my SIBO and dyssynergic defecation. It doesn't feel great to "feel constipated" but there are worse things and one can pretty much go about one's daily life. And there are ways of managing even worse... I'm 67 and it's slowly dawning on me that there is no going back to the halcyon days of youth when some of us lucky ones could feel "perfectly fine!" almost all the time.