Magnesium Oxide for constipation?

I take magnesium oxide with my calcium - and it has TOTALLY broken the log jam!

It was suggested that I start with 250 mg, then up the dose each wee****il I hit a good spot. Currently, I take 750 mg per day.

While I was moving up with the max ox, I also used a capful of Miralax along with a benefiber stick in 16 oz of water (all I could taste was the citrus benefiber) every morning, and a senokot S tablet mid day. It worked, but slowly and with difficulty. I love my mag ox!

Rebecca

oy my bathroom habits are so screwed up since surgery...


i take 1 colace (walmart brand stool softener) in the am and one in the pm
i take 3 magnesium oxide a day and I'm thinking of upping that to four shortly...
i take benefiber powder in the morning and a fiber one chewable after dinner.


I still have issues.

I take magnesium oxide, and yes, it helps. I also use stool softeners and Miralax. I buy my Magnesium Oxide from Vitalady.

www.vitalady.com

ETA: I bought my magnesium citrate from Vitalady. I bought some magnesium oxide at Bartell's, the Nature Made brand is Magnesium Oxide. Vitalady is good though, I have made numerous purchases through her. Mag oxide doesn't absorb well, but helps with constipation. I use mag citrate for the better absorption of calcium, and muscle cramping, etc.

Yes, do stay away from PERI colace, because, your doc noted, it can be habit forming and your bowel can become dependent on it. Normal colace is stool softner and most stores have a generic of it.

Before I post my canned answer, I will sa
I had chronic constipation for 11 years. I tried: more fiber, less fiber, soluble fiber, insoluble fiber, no fiber, both fibers, stool softeners, Smooth Moves & Correctol teas and Metamucil wafers, together, apart, more water, less water, cut out anything bu****er (and protein), senna, cascara sagrada, everything one could possibly try until I was basically dependent on enemas for 3 yrs.

Miralax helped the stool be passable. It was rx and finally became generic, so went from $80 for 3 months to $20 for 3 months. Now it is OTC, but is about $8 for 5-6 servings. If you can get the rx, it is much cheaper, safe, daily, for life, according to my GI doc.

The stool softeners are store brand equal to Colace, not PERI-colace.

Word was that magnesium citrate was such a great thing. This is pills, not the green bottle, so I tried it and nothing happened, and so I kept increasing it. What DID happen is that my foot and leg cramps ceased. So, I kept doing that and tried magnesium oxide. This is small, cheap, found anywhere, like drug stores. And finally, it worked. Mine are 500 mg and I take 2.

My final formula:
1 serving MiraLax (rx) *
4 stool softeners at night
1 mag ox with lunch, 1 with dinner

In the morning, hot beverage first thing on empty gut

This has worked for several years yrs now.

* MiraLax was rx only until the end of 2007, and is now generic by rx. The original name brand is available at drug stores at about $20 for a large bottle. You might want to try one first, taken daily, at about the same time. If it solves the problem, then ask your doc for rx. It is NOT a laxative. It is safe, daily, taken for life, per 4 doctors I've asked. It was a pediatrician who introduced me to it. My rx plan allows me to have 6 of those big bottles every 3 months for $20. Check with your doc and your insurance to see if it's beneficial to buy it by rx. BTW, my doc writes for 2 servings per day, because they might SAY there are 30 servings per bottle, but somebody can't count. Me or them? I use only one, but if I spill or get too much, I still have enough to last til next refill.

y that for the last 3 yrs, I had just about given up any oral helpers at all, having tried everything independently and yeah, I bought Fleet's a dozen at a time.

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