Stool Softeners
#60929 - 04/13/04 09:50 PM
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Reged: 02/24/04
Posts: 1955
Loc: Ontario, Canada
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Hello,
I need some advice on stool softeners. I've been told I need to start taking an iron supplement because I'm anemic, and I'm really concerned about it becuase of the fact that it can be constipating. I'm IBS-A and so I do often have bad boughts of constipation, so I don't want to take anything that will make that worse, although from what I can tell I don't really have a choice.
The recommendations from the doctor were things like "eat more bran" (arg) and that I could take a stool softener like Colace.
I've had to do this before after surgery when I was on high doses of constipating pain killers, but I'm going to be on the iron for awhile and I wonder about how taking a stool softener everyday will affect me.
Does anyone have any suggestions on whether this would be ok? Or other ways to help make the iron more tolerable?
Thanks,
Kelly
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Well you could start out just taking one a day and see how that goes. Stool softeners are more mild then laxatives, so they shouldn't make anything horrific happen, unless you take a bunch.
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Thanks for your info fishnets.
Does anyone else know if they're ok to take long term? For example, the whole time I'm taking the iron I may have to take them, which could be at least a few months...anyone?
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