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Help - Constipation for 5 weeks

Hi everyone, glad to have found this support group. Hope you all are doing well!...

Posted by MissCaptainKirk

Hi everyone, glad to have found this support group. Hope you all are doing well! This is kind of long and maybe TMI and I am a very private person and hate to talk about my health issues but I really need some help.

My problem is that I have been constipated for about 5 weeks. Not complete constipation, like every once in a while I would have a BM but it was very small and black and hard, like compacted, like it had been in my intestines for a while. I went to my endocrinologist and told her but she said not to worry it would just go away. (She is not very helpful.)
I eat a lot of fiber every day and eat very healthy. I started a new diet my primary doctor recommended a couple months ago that was helping the IBS and making me feel great so I don't think it's a food issue.
When it started getting bad my mother-in-law (who is a nurse) said to use a suppository. That gave me a very small BM but when I tried it again twice it didn't work.
Last week my insides hurt so bad from the constipation that I was crying and it felt like my intestines or whatever were going to explode. My husband called my mother-in-law and she said to use milk of magnesia and an enema. Well I did the enema (welcome to Hell) and THAT didn't work either. So I drank the milk of magnesia. The next morning I had a BM but it was like before, hard and black. Since then I have had one or two BMs a day but it is only very small and like before. And I still feel like everything is clogged in my intestines.
My theory is that it is because I had been on so many antibiotics last month for health issues and thats whats causing this. But I thought it would get better by now. I see my primary doctor next Fri and they are very helpful and can always tell me what's wrong. I cannot afford to go to another doctor until then.
Does anyone have any suggestions for the time being?? I have to force myself to eat so that I don't make it worse but I feel so sick.

I appreciate any and all suggestions!
(Sorry if I grossed anyone out.)

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It went ok, they told me it was most likely the antibiotics that were causing the...

Posted by MissCaptainKirk

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Thank you for your advice! I am really glad you answered. I am taking probiotics...

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Reply: Suggestions...anyone?

I really feel for you about the everything you eat making you sick. I am often like...

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