The first time I did CD, I had no problems with constipation at all. But actually, getting it has been one of the reasons I kept failing at my restarts. I kept reaching a point where my body begged me to eat (well, that's what it felt like!
) so that things could be pushed on through.
So when I restarted this time, I decided I'd try to stay on top of it from day one. In the past, I've tried Fibre89, but I have to confess it didn't seem to work for me. What
does work is psyllium husk capsules. I take 2 three times a day (so 6 altogether) with plenty of water. And so far, wow, what a difference. No problems whatsoever, everything's moving just as it should.
Which is definitely one less thing to worry about. There's no question that getting constipation was quite literally stuffing up my attempts to stay on CD...
Cooky, I hope you get sorted, hun. It's really not nice at all. If you can, ahem, feel it up there and it's all hard, you might need some glycerin suppositories to soften things up. Things like senna and dulcalax do help to move things along - but I was certainly finding that getting it out was the trickiest (not to mention most painful) bit of all...