Laxative Abuse

Ok, how do you know when it's doing your body serious damage? Erm like, what's the warning signs of it turning into something dangerous?
Sorry, thanks.

[Animad]

Things like pain in your tummy caused by gut spasms, being unable to pass bowel movements without laxatives, feeling bloated, having to take more laxatives for it to have the same effect. You could also start to feel quite ill too as they affect the electrolyte balance in your body and that can cause quite serious problems.

Oh bugger.

Some of this like the pain in my tummy, which is like a gut spasm, I don't know if it's actuallyaround the time when I'm abusing laxatives, I thought it might be from teh clomipramine I'm on. Feeling bloated could be hormones couldn't it? Being unable to pass bowel movements without them has been around for some time.

Thanks for your reply, sorry.

[Animad]

Feeling bloated could be hormones, it's a common sign of PMT so if you're about to come on or on your period it could be that.

Being unable to pass anything/much without them is definately a very common sign and is one of the biggest things you will see.

Gut spasms isn't a common side effect of Clomipramine so it is probably more likely to be due to the laxatives. Once it gets to abusing them it can happen a lot of the time, not just totally confined to when you take the laxatives as they are used to signals from the laxatives making them contract so without these they tend to act more disorganised and therefore causing pain (not having these signals is also what stops you passing anything too as they don't react to signals from your brain in the same way as they used to).

Laxative abuse can also be a cause of Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) which can also cause gut spasms.

Hope that makes sense, if it doesn't then just give me a nudge and I can explain it differently.
KimA

[risenfromperdition]

^all the stuff above... take care roby <3