Barbara,
I just want to encourage you to stick it out and try to keep doing those things that you know are right! I know it is SOO hard. I had gotten into a terrible cycle of using laxatives, enemas, whatever I had to because I would just get so desperate to go and so tired of my bloated out belly. It can LITERALLY be depressing.
I remember one night specifically fighting the TEMPTATION to go buy a laxative tea and gulp it down. I prayed and asked God to please help me see how to break this cycle, that I feared I'd never be free of this!
Since then things ARE better. Of course, there is Heather's diet, here's a few additional or specific things that I also think have helped me:
-cut out whole wheat (thought it would help C, wrong)
-cut out salads (again, misnomer!)
-ground flax seed every day in a soluble base, like oatmeal or rice chex
-eat small amounts more often (every 3 hours)
-drink 1/2 cup aloe juice on an empty stomach 3x day (I believe this is helping me, may be individual thing though so be warned!)
-probiotic once a day, I was told this would take weeks to make a difference but I'm sticking with it
-tons of water and exercise every day
-do what I need to do to cut back on my pent-up feelings of stress or of being overwhelmed
I haven't taken any kind of laxative in a long time and I'm not only going fairly regularly, but (can I get gross on you?) they are nice and long and soft and don't stink!! No more tiny black pebbles or watery stinky gunk!! Only here could we talk this way, right?? 
Hang in there!!!
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Take care,
Michelle
...the greatest of these is LOVE. (I Cor 13)
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