Before you resort to the miralax or Zelnorm, try added in 2 stool softners morning and night! These will not make your body dependant on them like the other drugs. They are not a stimulate laxative and won't cause cramping or anything. Be sure to eat as much insoluble fiber foods with your soluble fiber foods. Sounds like you are drinking lots, be sure to also get exercise. I fell recently and have my leg in a cast and had to stop working out and my C is worse. Exercise does help. Try the stool softners, also called peri-colace for a week. If you have to resort to Zelnorm or Miralax, I would do the miralax. I have taken both. The Zelnorm may help a little bit more with the bloating but most people build up a tolerance to it very quickly, its not a long term solution. I have been on Miralax now for more than three years and have not built up a tolerance at all! I'm sure my body is dependant on it now and I'll probably have to take it forever but that was better to me than going through life miserably constipated!! I still follow heathers diet and take my acacia everyday!
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