Constipation and no weight loss

[Leebie3]

Hi guys.. does anybody else have constipation as a main symptom and/or doesn't lose weight with your IBD?

 

[Kip1]

Yes, that how I am. I am currenly 5 stone overweight also.
Its crazy, until I started with the constipation I wasnt overweight.
The odd time I do start with D I can lose a stone within 2 weeks.

 

[Leebie3]

thanks for answering kip

yeah, when I do get the D (which is usually for a few days to a week at the beginning of a flare) I can lose a few kg. I lost 6kg in 6 weeks a few years ago during a flare.. now I wish I couls lose weight because like you I am about 10kg overweight at 73kg and only 5'4"

 

[Kip1]

Its so annoying as my joints are so bad at the moment I am finding it difficult to exercise.
Before I started to have the surgery for all the other problems I had pre crohns I was really slim.

 

[Terriernut]

Oh, yes, we can certainly have the big C and not just the big D. What a fun disease. Do your Dr's give you anything to help you out with it?

Lots of folks on here have the same issue by the way, you arent alone!

 

[Kip1]

Senakot & or Lactulose. Don't do a thing actually so a complete waste of time for me.

 

[Terriernut]

Moviprep??? Although when my bowels were lazy, they told that to 'f' off too!

 

[Kip1]

:rof:

Can hear the contents of my bowel singing

'we shall not-we shall not be moved
we shall not-we shall not be moved
no matter what helen pours down her throat today
WE SHALL NOT BE MOVED!!!'

 

[Leebie3]

LOL kip!

I take epsom salts in water.. REALLY gets things moving :-D and your bowel doesn't become reliant on it.

 

[stacichristine]

I have crohn's with constipation and not D. I have struggled with my weight off and on my whole life! But when nothing is coming out, I guess that makes sense! I take miralax to get me going, though it doesn't always work. Been on a pretty strict diet since beginning of the year and have lost 29 pounds, though I still can't get control of the C.

 

[archie]

Yep thats me go every 3 days feel bloated and sore. I have the laziest bowels!! I occasionally take movicol but I have a mental block about drinking anything salty since the colonoscopy prep. On that nOte I always feel great after a colonoscopy due to the clear out!!! I never really have the big d only when I had an abscess.

 

[stacichristine]

Heck even the stuff to clean you out for colonoscopy doesn't work for me! The left side of my intestines just don't like to be emptied!!!!

 

[Leebie3]

me too Archie! I have asked for it without the colonoscopy before just for a clear out!
they refused :-s

 

[scottsma]

Pslyllium husk powder LOTS and LOTS of water, and licourice does it for me