Not sure if to laugh or cry! Probably the former is better but could do with some advise if anyone else has had the same problem - with the person they are looking after!!!!
Monique has decided she is constipated =- It started about a week ago. Big part of the problem is she cannot remember if she has been to the loo or not!!
When she first complained I just made conciliatory noises and did nothing but was not sure if it was real or imagined....
After a couple of days of constant complaint that she was constipated - hurt in the stomach and then the bottom or both or neither I gave her some Senocot. 99% certain it did have an effect... But next day the complaints continued.. could not be sure so went to the French chemist and got stuff to put up her backside... Certainly had an effect that night - we have a loo next door to the bathroom - could hear Mountsumers Revenge at work - well, the sound effects at 03.00... But the next afternoon the anquish of not going to the loo returned... cannot find out if the pain is to do with hard stools or a bloated feeling in the stomach.. So a friend suggested it might be Hemmorioids - so I went back to the chemist and got hemmorioid cream - more pessaries - different make and liquid parrafin - administered all 3 with satisfactory results - I think - but not 100% certain. Certainly some effect during the night.
Done a web search which suggests constipation for a week or so is not a big deal -my problem is she swears she has not been for days - I know she has but am not certain to what extent -
We get on a jet plane for London on Saturday mid-day and the last thing I need for the journey to SE London via Stansted is an incontinent Monique. So I do not want to re-dose her tonight or tomorrow. Could not see any sign of hemmoroids (not too sure I would know one if I met one) but I do have more cream..
Frankly I am not sure what to do next - If she cannot remember if she has been. Has no memory of the times I am 99% certain she did go but is convinced she has been constipated for weeks - I am slightly in the **** with the voyage ahead if you will excuse the pun!
Of course when we get to London there is no GP as we are not UK residents but could hit the A&E unit of a London hospital but......... well that's a pretty last resort...
Has anyone else had similar problems and how did they cope?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions
Michael
Monique has decided she is constipated =- It started about a week ago. Big part of the problem is she cannot remember if she has been to the loo or not!!
When she first complained I just made conciliatory noises and did nothing but was not sure if it was real or imagined....
After a couple of days of constant complaint that she was constipated - hurt in the stomach and then the bottom or both or neither I gave her some Senocot. 99% certain it did have an effect... But next day the complaints continued.. could not be sure so went to the French chemist and got stuff to put up her backside... Certainly had an effect that night - we have a loo next door to the bathroom - could hear Mountsumers Revenge at work - well, the sound effects at 03.00... But the next afternoon the anquish of not going to the loo returned... cannot find out if the pain is to do with hard stools or a bloated feeling in the stomach.. So a friend suggested it might be Hemmorioids - so I went back to the chemist and got hemmorioid cream - more pessaries - different make and liquid parrafin - administered all 3 with satisfactory results - I think - but not 100% certain. Certainly some effect during the night.
Done a web search which suggests constipation for a week or so is not a big deal -my problem is she swears she has not been for days - I know she has but am not certain to what extent -
We get on a jet plane for London on Saturday mid-day and the last thing I need for the journey to SE London via Stansted is an incontinent Monique. So I do not want to re-dose her tonight or tomorrow. Could not see any sign of hemmoroids (not too sure I would know one if I met one) but I do have more cream..
Frankly I am not sure what to do next - If she cannot remember if she has been. Has no memory of the times I am 99% certain she did go but is convinced she has been constipated for weeks - I am slightly in the **** with the voyage ahead if you will excuse the pun!
Of course when we get to London there is no GP as we are not UK residents but could hit the A&E unit of a London hospital but......... well that's a pretty last resort...
Has anyone else had similar problems and how did they cope?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions
Michael