Getting Things Moving: Chronic Constipation Stories

Inside this volume

Fifty first-person accounts describe chronic constipation. Writers describe the slow onset — often traced back to childhood, a medication, a pregnancy, a surgery, a period of stress — and the first things everyone tries: fibre, water, prunes, and the escalating supermarket shelf of laxatives. There is living with it: the planning, the abdominal pain, the bloating, the haemorrhoids and fissures, the days lost, and the reluctance to raise it with a doctor who seemed unlikely to take it seriously. Writers describe what actually helped — osmotic laxatives used properly, prucalopride and the newer secretagogues, pelvic floor physiotherapy and biofeedback for people whose problem was outlet dysfunction rather than transit, and the dietary changes that were and were not worth it. Later chapters cover harder-to-place cases, clinicians' perspectives, and the people for whom relief never came.

Who it's for

For anyone whose constipation has become the background condition of their life, people who suspect a pelvic floor problem, and readers tired of being told to eat more fibre.

Format · Instant download · PDF & EPUB · Fifty first-person accounts

A collection of personal testimony, offered as companion reading — not medical advice.

• 50 single-author testimonies from real people
• A short, plain-language introduction to the topic
• Editor's note, contents page, and curated resource list
• Professional interior typesetting and an original cover

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