Hi there
Due to oxycontin 40mg 3xdaily and amitriptyline 50mg nightly I am constipated and have tried various products to help.
From Nov last year to Jan this year, 2 coloxyl daily and 1 heaped teaspoon of normocol 2nd daily with a microlax enema 2nd daily.
This left me impacted and so I tried 2 sachets of movicol 2nd daily and one teaspoon of normocol 2nd daily with a microlax enema 2nd daily.
This regime moved to daily about 1 month later in February. This continued until a few months ago when things stopped moving altogether.
I increased the movicol to 3 daily and normocol to 2 teaspoons daily. My stool was soft to runny but even then there would be days with no result
About 3 weeks ago things stopped moving altogether and I had a 9 day period with no result. I have had to move on to 2 teaspoons of sennakot and 2 heaped teaspoons of normacol daily and even now I can sometimes have a day with no result.
As you can see I have really attacked my bowel over the last 6 months.
I recently disovered I have melanosis coli in my rectum. I have researched this and discovered that of the products I have taken only sennakot could cause this. I have only used sennakot for the last 3 weeks, why and how have I developed it? I realise that it is reversable once the laxatives are stopped. Does this include movicol and normacol?
I am aware that the real problem is the pain killers and I am currently awaiting a hospital bed for a procedure that will allow me to reduce them. I am having a ketamine/lignocaine subcut infusion which is a 5 day procedure that in the past has allowed me to drop the oxycontin without increased pain.
My second problem and also my need for daily enemas is that I developed a "medical kunundrum" about 7 months ago. At 5pm each day my legs begin to cramp and tighten and are joined by spasms around 9pm. They are both so painful that I am unable to do anything. Once my bowel is opened the following morning they both go away.
If I do not open my bowel each day the cramps and spasms will stay with me the whole day, hence the need for daily enemas. I have had a colon specialist and a bowel surgeon check me out and neither can find anything wrong. I have also tried a peroid without taking movicol in case I am sensitive to it. Just call me "the medical mystery"!