Postby NHMike » Tue Dec 17, 2019 6:29 am
tminor5 wrote:Thought I’d bring this back up because it has good information in here. Hoping for some suggestions for my hubby. He had his last stigmoid whatever to check his connection. Good news did shrink and stretched it up to 20 mm. Now he’s been approved to eat whatever he wants. He was on low fiber. Hubby’s BM have been every 2-3 days. Kind of normal no cramping or anything. He feels normal. But the gastro said he needed to start taking miralax. He wants him to go 1-2 times per day. We also went to see his primary to get him back in his meds he had to stop taking so the gastro said his primary could control meds for this. But call him if hubby gets any blockages or stomach pains from constipation. His primary agreed to start with the miralax but said if when he checks his other meds in 2 months if he wasn’t able to make his movements more “normal” then there is prescription meds for cronic constipation.
Anyway just wondering if there are any suggestions if we should just do the miralax or try the nopalina also? His dr is ok with him trying different things. Let him know what we find to work. But again in 2 months if it doesn’t work his wants to try the prescription.
I think the idea is to head off the potential for constipation by clearing things out and I think that's a good idea. I always like the idea of removing the odds of something bad happening.
Miralax helps to push things out.
Nopalina has Pre-Biotics, Fiber and Senna Leaves.
Senna is a laxative
The fiber helps to bulk up, absorb water and soften stools
Pre-Biotics feed your gut bacteria
I generally believe that you shouldn't take things if you don't need them. That said, I just took my Slippery Elm and Nopalina tablets for this morning as I find that they help me quite a bit. What I've seen is that various things help some people and don't do much for others. The only way to find out is to try them out and see how you do. I think that I'd go with the Miralax for a while and see how that goes. Then add the Nopalina after establishing a baseline to see how that goes. I think that he should only use it if he needs something that it does.
Nopalina also has fruit juice extracts. I'm not sure what those do but I expect that they have some purpose. Originally I thought that it was for flavoring but I'm taking the capsules so they have no flavoring effect at all.
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