Post Covid Long Term Chronic Constipation Like Marbles - Anybody Else?

@ritzgerb and @iamawriter - Here are the basics in a nutshell for a gut rebalance:
1. The Tea - make each morning and drink through the day.
Ingredients: 1/2 t. each cumin seeds, coriander seeds, and fennel seeds.
How: boil 4-5 C water in a pot, while it's heating add the seeds (I use a teaball). Boil for 5-10 minutes depending on how strong you like it (it's very pale). Afterward strain the seeds out or remove the teaball. Pour tea into a thermos of some sort and sip on it all day. These herbs are all very healing to the GI tract and gut.

2. Triphala - 1000 mg daily or before bed. (This is NOT a laxative.) It's very healing and soothing and promotes colon rebalance - helps bowel start to behave normally. (Easy to research Triphala.) If you don't experience bowel normalcy within a week, add another 1000 mg. You can go up to 4,000 mg if needed.

3. Fiber - 1 t. each of psyllium husks and ground flaxseed stirred into a glass of warm or room temperature water every other evening. (tastes fine). I did this only a few times, I have a fairly high fiber diet. If you don't and need it, good thing to add.

4. This is something I learned partially from the book and on my own by experimenting: believe it or not apples! Particularly cooked apples. Cooked/stewed creates pectin and some other things which are soothing and helpful for colon issues. Also easy to research "Stewed apples and gut health". Easy to make. Eat alone or add to oatmeal, yogurt, other.

The book goes on to Stage 2 once you have things sort of rebalanced and detoxed, which I won't go into. You add some other things like Ashwaganda and Brahmi. But I found myself with a back to normal colon within about a week from the things listed above. Hopefully this will help even just one person to heal and feel better.

I have done the tea for a bout a week now...very helpful. I got triphala 1000 MG capsules and took one at bedtime. I'd say for me it worked a bit too well...had abdominal pain/discomfort until the afternoon and lots of BM's. I am thinking a 1/2 capsule....500mg....maybe every other day. Have you ever split the capsule and if so how did you use the contents?

I have only ever gotten the hard tablets. Planetary Herbals. Ingredients are: Chebulic Myrobalan Fruit, Amal Fruit, and Belleric Myrobalan Fruit. 3 kinds of berries. Hoping yours has same ( sometimes called by different names). If you have capsules with granulated powder, do exactly like you said and just take half - I would open capsule and try to put about half into some honey or yogurt on a spoon. I haven’t come across anybody that reacted that way to it. You can also take during day instead of night if that would feel better for you. I hope this helps put you on the road to healing. 🙏

Yes that’s me! So constipated!!
Don’t know what to do anymore!?! I can definitely relate!

Yes that’s me! So constipated!!
Don’t know what to do anymore!?! I can definitely relate!

@sisterk

Yes- since I had my first Covid infection 3 years ago the constipation got worse every year.
I tried all: prebiotics, probiotics, fibre rich eating, lots of water drinking, acupuncture , blood analysis and supplements according to blood analysis , herbal teas etc.
I also eat totally healthy- no sugar, no cows milk , no wheat products.
BUT nothing helps to get a normal digestion. back and normal working bowels.
The constipation is really really bad and I have a lot of pains in my guts dice this post Covid infection stayed in my bowels/ body .
I do have very bad painful nights with coloumn pains and less sleep and feel weak and nervous a lot.
Anybody has the same problems and found a solution ?

@meike Colon pain and constipation appear to be an indication that it's time for an endo exam by a gastrologist. After 2 years of what I now refer to as 'dart throwing' medicines for my post Covid infections for chronic pain in my upper and lower colon, the anti-biotic and anti fungal 'darts' had destroyed the lining of my upper and lower GI tract. The endo proved the damage and also discovered a very advanced C-Diff.

@meike Colon pain and constipation appear to be an indication that it's time for an endo exam by a gastrologist. After 2 years of what I now refer to as 'dart throwing' medicines for my post Covid infections for chronic pain in my upper and lower colon, the anti-biotic and anti fungal 'darts' had destroyed the lining of my upper and lower GI tract. The endo proved the damage and also discovered a very advanced C-Diff.