Deep, deep in a crevice, you mean. 
Stick a finger up there and see if anything is “on deck”. If yes, loosen it up a bit and you’ll probably be okay. If no, I got nothing for you other than taking a spoonful of white ashes from a fire will get things moving along promptly. “Black for slack, white for tight”
If you are away from home, that might be doing it. When I go away and stay in a strange place…I just can’t ‘go’ until I get home to my own potty. (I don’t know if the OP is a man or woman, but this seems to happen more to women. I can’t help but notice any man I ever stayed with in a hotel had no problem - he’d take the newspaper into the bathroom and have a nice long sitdown with great success, judging by the sound effects :rolleyes:, lucky bastard.)
This is what I ended up having to do. I had a serious impaction. Gross. Not a fun experience nor one I’ll recommend to all my friends. Thank god the house here used to belong to my grandfather (a doctor) and so there were gloves. The reason for the constipation is a combination of travel (I have serious bathroom issues) but mostly taking Vicodin for my tailbone.*
*About 10 years ago I fractured my tailbone and it healed wrong. (here, see?) and it’s been hurting off and on, mostly on, ever since. I recently saw a doctor about it and he is going to talk to various surgeons about cutting it off. In the meantime since it’s been really bothering me and I’ve been working on a project at the computer (job wise) and thus sitting in one place for long stretches, he gave me some vicodin for it. I know that vicodin can cause constipation and I’ve been taking it like every day for the last week. So I’m pretty sure that’s it.
You need some fiber, IMHO.
I usually eat a handful of nuts daily. Sometimes popcorn. Oatmeal for breakfast is good too.
Ahh, yes, it’s the Vicodin. Opiates are excellent constipators. I’m told by somebody well under retirement age, though they were harassed a bit by me when I found out about it, that a daily glass of prune juice a day, plus lots of extra fiber besides, keeps everything moving as it should. Tastes rather awful but works well enough to be worth it, I guess. Better that than the pain sans meds!
Glad it worked, though. Eww.
Those Fiber One snack bars are really, REALLY good. Especially the chocolate chip ones – they’re like oatmeal cookies.
That would explain why the insanely religious are such tight-asses.
The reason I have Colace in the house it that the doctor prescribed it while I was taking vicodin after surgery.
To chime in after the problem has passed [heh]
Double the recommended serving size of any diabetic candy sweetened with mannitol. I can state categorically you would have to sew your ass shut to not shit your brains out. I have no idea what the actual mechanism is of sugar alcohols and the runs, but it is amazing. [I tried it in desperation once after being stuck on opiates for a couple weeks once. I couldn’t manage to be functional well enough to drive and mrAru was deployed for a month to the caribbean. I sort of went with what I had at hand.]
Smooth Move Tea and a big ole bottle of Prune Juice. Then eat a banana. Wait six to 12 hours.
I won’t say it works EVERY TIME, but for run-of-the-mill constipation, it will do the trick.
When I was on Abilify, I would get so constipated that it was ridiculous. I would get off the toliet after straining for what seemed forever and then squat for a long time, just to make my anus open up (and it would work too…a little). Then, I started drinking a glass of prune juice before going to bed at night, along with my medication. I wouldn’t wake up and have to “go”, but when it was time to “go”, I wouldn’t have to strain as much and there would be more in the delivery package. It still sucked, though.
I keep a bottle of prune juice in the refrigerator at work. People laugh at me, but when it’s that time of the month and I’m feeling all crampy, I can usually blame it on a congested colon. A cup of prune juice can make things feel all so better.
Just writing this post has added 30 years onto my life, just so ya’ll know.
Every morning I consume high fiber cereal + skim milk + coffee. It never fails to get the train rolling.
Hooray! I Win!
What’s wrong with me that I can read this post and still think of **Monstro **as an attractive woman?
I drink hot tea, and yeah, it usually gets things moving. Most days I eat the high fiber cereal, sometimes it’s eggs, but I find that if I just keep putting fiber into my system, it helps regulate the output. Cheerios and shredded wheat aren’t really exciting, but eating one or the other does make a difference in keeping things on a regular basis.
When far from pharmaceutical help, here is what’s worked for me in the past, with wondrous results;
Run a very hot bath, as hot as you can tolerate, get in and try your very best to recline and relax. As much as is possible. When the bath starts to feel chill, get out, dry off and dress quickly. Now get into a hammock or rocking chair and have a little rock or swing.
The hot bath relaxes the clenched innards, the motion of the rocking/swinging will give everything a little nudge forward and, usually, that’s all that’s really needed.
No fuss, no muss, no fingers, gloves or pharmaceuticals, what’s not to like?
Sea salt will also work, and will taste (marginally) better than epsom salts – or at least, will taste intensely salty instead of intensely bitter. Use approximately one tablespoon in a litre of water, and chug it. You’ll likely get things moving within an hour or so.
Other thought – do you know why you’re constipated? If your stool isn’t soft enough (eat fiber!), the salt-water laxative will work, but it’ll hurt like hell when it does. If you’re say, on medication which causes constipation as a side effect, taking a supplement like Senocot (sp?) every day may help keep things soft.
NOT fun! When I had my gallbladder out, I knew this would be a problem: narcotics plus abdominal surgery. I knew enough to have lots of high-fiber foods on-hand (and had my husband bring me Raisin Bran etc. in the hospital - seriously I think their kitchen designs its menus to reduce the load on their plumbing). Plus Fibercon several times a day, plus Colace. It was 3+ days anyway.
From here on out, I’d strongly suggest having a bottle of Fibercon or the like whenever you have to take narcotics for pain relief. Alternate the goodies with the fiber assistance.
Ice cream
Something with olestra in it
Coffee
Hot Chocolate
Oh, and check to make sure you’re not hypothyroid next time you’re at the doc.
Is this why House is walking so funny? And all this time I thought it was his leg!