>>>----- Original Message -----
>From: "toni welsh" <twelsh1@hotmail.com>
>To: "Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS" <adhesions@mail.medispecialty.com>
>Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2001 10:19 PM
>Subject: GONE AWHILE STILL PROBLEMS
>
>I was reading posts for awhile, and was wanting to ask some of you girls
>about the constipation thing AGAIN! I have been taking laxatives for 3
>years, and I do not go without them. I normally take them all the time,
>but lately I have not been taking the time to take it. I did not go for
>over five days, and on the sixth day I took 4 tablets senekot, and it
>woke me up at 5 in the morning, and I felt alot of cramping, it normally
>works after about ten hours, and it was only 5 hours after taking it. I
>got up and could not get the stool to go out, and the PAIN felt like I
>was going to explode, it hurt EXTREMELY bad for about 15 minutes, and I
>finally yelled to get husband up. The pain was strong, and was all the
>way through the rectum, it was SO hard! He kept telling me to relax, and
>I fu=inally went, SOME, but the whole day after this happens, the whole
>area is sore to touch. Can this be a sign of an obstruction> I have not
>had bowel movements with out senekot for two years, except the 2 weeks I
>had diarreha, and pain in upper area! That was weird too, that was in
>march of this year! ADHESSIONS are ruining my life, and I am SICK and
>TIRED of beoing addicted to laxatives, I have not gone to drs much
>lately, they do not want to help me here!
>
>HELP!
>
>TOni
That is exactly how it felt for me Saturday morning, Labor pains. I feel I am too young to be laxative dependant, I hate taking them. I was wondering about herb lax, does it cramp you alot? Senekot does when I have to take so many. Thanks or answering my post.
Toni