methadone constipation

I've been on methadone for about 2 1/2 years now and I've somehow dealt with the consitpation.  I have found ways of dealing with the constipation, usually involving enemas and senna laxatives.  I've even gone to the dr for my problem and they told me to try miralax, which didn't work, and then senna.  My problem isn't so much the hardness, my stool is hard, but the problem is that I never have the urge to go.  I go once a week if I'm lucky and that's only because I make myself go, by taking laxatives and using an enema, once I start feeling backed up.  The laxatives help move my stool down and I do get bad cramps, then I have to use the enema to get it to come out because the stool is too hard to push out.  This system has been working, but last week I went and the next day I began feeling bloated in a weird different way.  It only got worse with each passing day and is accompanied by random nausea.  I thought maybe I was still backed up, even though the bloated feeling is slightly higher up...not in my abdominal area but my stomach area, I tried taking laxatives to move the stool down but nothing happened.  I waited a few days and tried again and still nothing.  The weird thing is that I don't really feel like I am backed up and it's been a week since I last went.  I'm beginning to get scared, I absolutely hate feeling bloated like this.  I'm currently detoxing my way off methadone and I was hoping that my constipation would get better, but so far I've been more gassy.  I don't know what to try if doses of laxatives aren't working.  please help.  I feel like nothing can help because of the methadone, I don't even know what this feeling is.

[ladyrhea4]

Well How much laxatives do you take? Do you take just one or two of them? And I took a stool softener , So I took like 4 Laatives and that many stool softeners. But I would double check with your doctor and would not start out with that much. I took Methadone for I think if I recall correct 5 years or so. Anyway I went cold Turkey in May 2010 and I am 129 days clean...And I have to say I did not feel like going much at all and at times could not even Pee. But when you go off the methadone you will start to go and give it time to even out. Along with that I would talk to your doctor more about how little you go and oh You don't have to keep taking that much laxatives either, when you get yourself going you back off. You might have to take a stool softener every night but I do think that is fine. Well I hope this helps and good luck on getting off the Methadone...It was the best thing for me, I still have pain but I am me again......Ladyrhea4

[Newlife58]

I used to eat the potatoe chips made with elestra or what ever the fake fat stuff is and it kept me fairly regular. The wierd stuff we do to maintain the drug use

[ladyrhea4]

Hey Newlife I am a 129 days clean congrats on you being Clean............xoxox Rhea

[Newlife58]

you should be proud of yourself for 129 days I really never thought life would be much good without the pills . But how wrong I was. Just not being zoned out all the time makes life better. And each day gets better. There is no way I will ever catch you on sober days unless I out live you by 109 days. May you live a long and sober life.        Michael

[methadonelaxatives]

I am worried that if i take laxatives it will take the methadone out of my system and cause me to go into withdrawal. could this happen? and if i were to take methadone if it weren't to cause the methadone to come out of my system how long should i wait to take the laxative after i take the methadone?

[gnarly_1]

HI the laxitives wont cause the methadone to come out of your system it is absorbed by your stomach laxitives work in the small and large intestines and methadone is know to cause constipation...mirolax works for most people give it a try if one dose dosent do it try 2 good luck and God bless.....Gnarly