Embarrassing: Camping & Constipated

Sugar free hairibo are supposed to work wonders

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Sugar free hairibo are supposed to work wonders
Just to clarify, do you mean by mouth? ?

Strong coffee and oranges.

Plenty of fruit oranges grapes apples

RachB2020. You really have my sympathy. So many of us have this problem on holidays. I have always put it down to change of water/diet and anxiety. I also have IBS and I now prefer to go self catering purely because of this. Its limiting and can be embarassing. If I cant go I find a 20 minute walk helps, LOTS of water or orange juice (with the bits), alcohol bungs you up. Loads of crisps (and I mean mega pig out) and 2 cans of coke give me the poops the following day. I would recommend a gentle stool softner like Fybrogel. Is there a seperate disabled loo you could use for a bit of privacy maybe? If anyone says anything just quietly say 'not all disabilities are obvious'. you must be suffering quite a lot of discomfort by now, sosorry for you.

Laxibo or is it Laxigo! Twice I’ve been discharged from hospital completely constipated when only senna was administered to no effect. The above is excellent, but don’t overdo it as I did. Without going into details I need to hire a carpet shampooer.

Simple - Buy yourself a bottle of Lactulose. From any chemist or any chemist inside a supermarket. Its thick and syrup like but works. My doctor used to prescribe it on prescription but was told to buy it for myself this last time. I use at home and take with my on holiday. In bottle. Small size or larger one. You supposed to take small teaspoon sized but i have one of the desert type spoons and bingo.

Might not work this time if you're already bunged up but a good sized bowl of bran flakes last thing at night will do the trick in the morning. Fibre is key to a good, regular poo habit.

Try Lactulose. You can get it from a chemist. It helps to lubricate the bowels rather than a purge effect which a lot of constipation remedies do. Also drink plenty of fresh juice, orange or prune are great. If it gets really bad you can also buy enemas from the chemist that you can do yourself. Hope this helps and remember to relax.

Hi everyone,

We are on our way home at the moment - can't wait to get home, sit on my own private toilet and finally have a bowel movement!

My chronic constipation issues (which affect me even on the home toilet) are due to a small rectocele which has taken all of the 'oommph' out of my pushing ability. Sorry for tmi but I can 'start' it reaches the exit, then stops and then retreats (if you know what I mean!) Sorry for tmi

The joys of having aging bowels. When I was in my 30's a poo would take two minutes!

Prune juice every morning.

Good luck - have you tried the 'poop button' I described and the clockwise massage- works wonders, honestly.

A physiotherapist taught me this exercise:
Firstly, take some deep slow breaths whilst sitting on the toilet.
Lean over with hands towards the floor
More breaths
Slowly lift Stretched out arms Out to the sides and then over towards the back of your head
Lean right back then upright again
Works a treat for me

I always struggle with constipation when I'm away from home. Apparently pooing has a lot to do with smelling! Within 5 mins of getting home I'm heading for the loo. It's because I've smelt my own home and feel safe. It does make sense.

Totally sympathise as I am exactly the same. Went to Hong Kong, Australia and Thailand a few years ago and didn’t‘go’ properly until I came home!

One of the reasons I’d never go camping! Luxury holiday cottage with 2 bathrooms is the only way I’d holiday now- even hotels are not brilliant as you only get one bathroom usually and it opens into the bedroom so no real privacy. If all else fails I’d recommend suppositories as the force the bowel to relax and get there peristalsis going!

Hope you are safely home now rachb and everything is functioning. Good luck

The best thing for me is green grapes on my breakfast cereal. Since I started eating these every day I have never been constipated (and I often was before).

Any luck Rach? Sorry to be so intrusive but I've been worrying about you!

Fybogel is great - it isn't absorbed into your system, and is a plant husk product that seems to hurry everything along when the system has ground to a halt. Pears work very well - mango too. Very trying when you are away - I am just the same!

My son had this and bowel stopped working. Ended up in hospital in severe pain. They tried everything senza, enemas etc but nothing worked. Then they gave something called fleet (apparently used for colonoscopy) which worked in less than an hour. Sent home and told eat nothing but fruit for a week to restart the bowel

I used to go camping and canoeing every year with a large group of friends. We would stay for 3 or 4 days over a long weekend. My best friend confessed years later that she could not poo the entire time, every single year. I guess it's a camping thing! You're not alone. I would get something to help things along if you're going to be there more than a couple of days. Prunes and pears are good natural ones.

Sounds like camping just isn't the ideal holiday for some! After a few days you must feel so uncomfortable that it can't really be a relaxing form of holiday. Not good for your bowels either. ?

Some graffiti I encountered decades ago in the loo at a residential training course:-

“When I came to B**** I thought the bottom had dropped out of my world. Now I find the world has dropped out of my bottom”.

I heard that one on the radio about 50 odd years ago, and it went like this: Has the bottom fallen out of your world? Take Andrews Liver Salts and let the world fall out of your bottom. I could not stop laughing, so much so that it got a bit embarrassing, you know - a real schoolgirl-like fit of the giggles!