can anyone tell me if there are dangers of long term laxative use?
xxx
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yes there is.
your bowels can stop working with the use of laxatives.
you can get dehydrated.
i hope your ok hunny.
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i landed myself in hospital for a week in agony, and i mean AGONY with bowel problems. they tested me for everything an turns out its 'just' damage from my ED time. So yeah it was bad and to much info but i lost ALOT of blood out of my bowel
DONT DO IT
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yes there def are
avoid them at all costs...
tehy're so not worth it... and addicting to boot.
take care love
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"Laxatives
Pills or liquid, herbal or otherwise, laxative abuse is a common form of "weight control" in people suffering with Eating Disorders. The use of laxatives as a way to lose or control weight is not only dangerous, but irrational. The actual purpose of taking a laxative is to stimulate the large bowel to empty, which occurs only after the food and it's calories for energy have been absorbed through the small intestines. Essentially, a person taking laxatives to control weight is only going to cause their body to lose fluid, which can potentionally be followed by periods of water retention and an appearance of bloating (causing the sufferer to want to lose more weight and ingest more laxatives). The reason people suffering from eating disorders seem to lose weight while taking laxatives is because in most cases they are increasingly watching calorie intake and restricting food consumption, inducing vomiting, and/or compulsively exercising. Continued laxative use can cause bloating, cramping, dehydration, electrolyte disturbances and imbalances, cardiac arrhythmias, irregular heart beat and heart attack, renal problems, and death.
Phenolphthalein, a popular ingredient previously found in many brands of laxatives has now been recalled by the FDA (Food and Drug Administration, United States) due to studies indicating that it has been linked to cancer.
Withdrawal symptoms can be expected in stopping the use of laxatives after a continued period of using them as a "weight loss" method. These include, abdominal cramping, mild to severe constipation, bloating, mood swings and general feelings of fatigue and "feeling sick." In less severe cases the symptoms will usually subside in about 2 weeks, but in cases where a person have ingested handfuls or more laxatives on a regular basis, it may take longer and require medical assistance." <http://www.something-fishy.org/dangers/methods.php>
take care lovie
“The good things don’t always soften the bad, but vice-versa, the bad things don’t necessarily spoil the good things and make them unimportant.”
“Nobody important? Blimey, that’s amazing. Do you know, in nine hundred years of time and space I’ve never met anyone who wasn’t important before.”
“If it’s time to go, remember what you’re leaving. Remember the best. My friends have always been the best of me.”
yeh... nasty nasty very dangerous effects.... please ... if you haven't already... dont start... i so regret it. I'm completely addicted to them, utterly ashamed of it and it's groce. Have been on them for large parts of the past.. year and a half (being in hosp stopped me cos didn't have anyway of getting them!!) Causes serious bowel damage, can cause paralysis of the bowel, severe electrolyte imbalances, which can cause heart attacks.
I never thought of myself as a drug addict... i've never even tried anything illegal!! guess i'm just addicted to legal drugs... but yeh. It's nasty.
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[center]" I know what it's like to want to die. How it hurts to smile. How you try to fit in but you can't. How you hurt yourself on the outside to try to kill the thing on the inside."
“The good things don’t always soften the bad, but vice-versa, the bad things don’t necessarily spoil the good things and make them unimportant.”
“Nobody important? Blimey, that’s amazing. Do you know, in nine hundred years of time and space I’ve never met anyone who wasn’t important before.”
“If it’s time to go, remember what you’re leaving. Remember the best. My friends have always been the best of me.”
EVIL that is the one word I would use to describe laxatives!
I was not a heavy user of laxatives but I did abuse them on and off for a couple of years.
I havent touched them in 5 years and the last time I properly abused them was nearer ten years ago yet I still have ill effects from them. I suffer from IBS - getting agonising stomach cramps, constipation and so on and it is likely that I will have it for the rest of my life.
Stay well clear of them
xoxox
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the cramps and pain u go thru with laxatives is not worth it.
its no fun having to stay in cuz ur scare in case u cant get to the toilet fast enough when out.
the smell is rrevolting.
worst of all is when u lose control of your bowels.
u may wake up covered in your own excretion.
u may not make it to the toilet in time.
pass some wind and u could be embarrassed for life when ur bowels relax and let diahorrea run at the same time/
