Is there anyone using Miralax on a daily basis?

If so, has it been effective?

Also, is there anyone who was using it for a prolonged period of time before discontinuing?

I'm curious about your experiences with it, positive or negative, and whether it brought about dependence in anyone?

I've dealt with chronic constipation for about three years now, and daily use of Miralax has been suggested to me before, but I never wanted to use it with that frequency, so as to not become dependent.

Though, having used it for about week, at a double dose, I've been having regular bowel movements.

I don't want to jinx it, though, so we'll just say it's life finally coming around.

I still don't want my bowels to become dependent on it, but I suppose it beats the former. I've tried SO many natural options, diet changes, etc. Nothing has given me consistency.

Yeah, I haven't experienced any negative side effects yet. Just a general sense of being unwell, it gave you? I can understand. Intuition.

I've tried both of the commonly suggested types of magnesium for constipation - citrate and oxide. The former never worked, chalking it up to individuality, because others reported improvements, and the citrate seemed to give out after about a week. You're right, you've got to poop, but I felt toxic ingesting as much as I needed to in order to stimulate a BM.

As for the arsenic, what can you do? Try another product, of course, but I feel like people can only go so far. Buy from trusted sources that claim all of these tests have been done, often paying a premium, but that can't be done for everything.

Do your best, and don't use what I'm about to say as an excuse to not care - is what I have to tell myself - but I think the world is so heavily polluted that we're all getting exposed to some degree. I hate to take your mind there, but what if there's toxic stuff in your feces (from whatever, environmental, I don't know) that would otherwise sit in your colon, being reabsorbed by the body, if not for that supplement? Benefits outweigh the risks.

I've been taking 2 cap fulls as opposed to the one, and it seems to be working. I do take a high dose of Vitamin C, which could be contributing. I experimented with Colace for a few days about a week ago, but I don't think I used it enough for it to really make an impact, especially not one that would last 'til now. I can't connect it to anything else.

We'll see, if the dose needs to be increased after another week or two.

Really the best option I have, because, like I've said, I've tried so much, and I'm sick of enemas, excessive Vit C to "flush" it out, etc. I'm sick of feeling poop in my colon for days, not wanting to come out, because the muscles are stupid or whatever. You know the drill.

I'll look into that, though. Seems like it is an "ionic" form of mag citrate. Interesante.

Hey guys, I've not tried miralax ( but may have to if I can't get things moving better...) but I do take a different kind of magnesium that I really like.

Its called Innate magnesium powder, and at first it worked for me really well . Seems like I may need to increase my dose now, although I'm trying to experiment with diet etc first, as once I did accidentally take too much and things became seriously gross & uncomfortable for at least 24 hours. Not something I'm eager to repeat unless I have to

I'm not sure if it would also have arsinic in it or not? Prior to finding it I also took the Natural Calm...

Eaither way, u guys are absolutely right... there's toxins everywhere... probably worth doing what you've got to ( within reason) to keep things moving - at least then you're getting rid of the toxins that way ...

aphysicalwreck said...
I use something called oxy powder by ght. You start it as a cleanse but then you can just take a low dose daily. You have to figure out what dose works for you.

I swear by it!! Google it!!

I tried that one, but didn't have any BM after taking it, so I went back to Natural Calm. How many capsules do you take?