Hey, I'm female/22
For the past few weeks I've felt extremely bloated and constipated. I started off feeling very "gassy" and then out of nowhere I had this huge stomach distension problem and wasn't able to pass stools or even really pass gas. I talked to my doctor and she told me to try two colace in the morning, miralax in the middle of the day, and two more colace at night. I've been taking them regularly everyday but the stomach distension is still there, and I've been feeling a bit crampy but still barely passing stools. When I do it's either barely any and they are hard, or I have a bit of diarrhea but it'll stop abruptly (before I feel like I'm finished).
My stomach is normally very flat but its like I look like a completely different person now. This is very frustrating, I feel very insecure due to this constant distension. I don't quite know what's wrong with me yet but is this distension permanent? Will I always have it now? Or will it go away? It looks like I'm pregnant (and there's no chance I am)... ,but that's how it looks, like I'm a couple months along. I thought maybe it was just backed up stool at first but now I'm a little nervous it's something more serious.
Is distension permanent? Will my body ever go back to normal?