any tips wold be gratfull
am having fec chemo.and know this is a s/e off chemo’what is regular to some might not be to others.try to eat fruit and drink plenty ad have fibre so how come i still cant go!!!!!! am sure im not alone in this.and what is the wind all about(poooooh).
HI there - I think this is one of the most difficult and most common side effects of chemo - if you really are doing fibre fibre fibre and lots of water to no effect then may i suggest you ring your chemo team and ask for some tablets for relief - and soon…just that my friend left it quite a while and got something called fecal compaction which is a longer build up that makes it harder to shift - so shift it as soon as you can!
good luck
Oh Queenie! A thread titled ‘constipation’ in the ‘How to get started’ section has made me smile!
More seriously, my chemo nurse said it was fine to use over-the-counter laxatives like Dulcolax if needed.
Re the wind - there was a whole (hilarious) thread about it. Mine was so bad one day (oh the smell!) that I couldn’t go into work even tho I felt OK!
Dx
Poor you.
“Chemofarts” as they are sometimes indecorously called are very normal, I guess it’s just that no-one talks about it.
Constipation and/or diahorrea (never could spell that word) are both quite normal se’s of chemo. My BCN told me to buy in both sennacot and immodium before I started. Some people get FEC-trots or Tax-trots; some people get chemo-clog; some people get both, some people get neither (I had mild trots but soon worked out that avoiding cheese and fish cured that for me). There is a bit of trial and error, but eat as balanced a diet as you can face (bans and/or recommendations not withstanding) and if it doesn’t settle nearer to normal soon check with your BCN or GP - they may be able to give you something like Lactulose to help things along.
Take care and hope you soon are able to ‘go’
I had a bout of constipation - I didn’t go for 4 days and when I did BYYYYYYYYYY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD it was compacted and I got a tear there as a result, it was so big and dry (TMI)
So don’t leave it like stupid here did.
If you’re getting plenty of fibre and water then you need something extra xx
Here’s the wind thread - enjoy!
have got lactulose and senokot in. how long is a long time i never go everyday anyway so ive never been reqular.it no sign butomorrow will try above meds and see what happens. had a bowl of prunes for breakfast fruit midday cheese on brown bread for lunch going to have pasta and chinkec for tea fruit tonight.so hope with all that +water and a few!! cups of tea should go tomorrow with any luck if not will try stuff above
El K I love yout posts… so honest and open and at the smae time so sensible and helpful
Queenie, when I was doing chemo I was drinking about 2-3 pints of water a day over and baove tea/coffee etc. I found that by keeping a sport-top bottle handy I cuold sip regularly. The chemo can be very drying to your whole body (moisturiser needed head to toe) so you possibly need even more liquid
thanks will try thought i was drinking plenty but must try harder have got said bottle and will fill it up.have glass of water on the go as well as tea. honest and open thats me it`s the only way to be.
thank you dj that made me laugh and that makes a nice change.
Rev Cat = *takes a bow* 
Do I get a prize then? LOL xx
Hi Queenie
When I was in hospital after my lumpectomy I had severe constipation rather like El K recently described. I couldn’t respond to her comments before - even thinking about it was too painful.
Pain killers as well as chemo can cause it. Drinking a lot of water certainly helps.
I was prescribed Movicol which did the trick eventually - what a relief!
My chem was 4x AC - i was constipated again Onc prescribed Movicol again.
Now I’m on TAX - certainly haven’t had the trots, but wind yes, smelly farts - thankfully more normal movements.
Chem nurse said if you haven’t gone by Day 4 let them know.
Also - if you are prescribed something, it’s free.
Good luck.
El K… your prize hmm, some virtual chocs, a bottle of virtual favourite tipple and some virtual ‘kitten soft’ loo roll… will that do?
Virtual never did hit the spot for me I feel let down now 
Yeah - virtual - all a bit too virtuous.
Need a bit of the real stuff.
OK, hang on…
posted chocolate into the slot on the side of the laptop…
pouring tipple into slot…
abandoned loo roll, thought it wouldn’t squish down enough…
should be coming out of your computer now…
(apologies for going off track, please don’t report me or naughty step me)
I must e obsessed Rev - thought that said “pouring NIPPLE into slot”!
I’m shocked!!! ;-)) A lady of the cloth like me doing a thing like that… too much Tipple poured in obviously… and it was really for El K after all… hope it came out both your computers.
Apologies queenie, but laughter is meant to be good medicine…
Even if it does make you fart!
Your tipple has miraculously appeared in an empty wine glass next to me - God works in mysterious ways indeed :0) Hic.
I’m suffering too - from what could be called the other big C. But not from chemo side effects, but from SEs of painkillers which I take for side effects of aromatase inhibitors. So I take laxatives for the side effects of the pills I take for the side effects of the pills I take for… am a bit lost now. And what do you take for the side effects of the laxatives?
Never had C like this in my relatively long life. So I do take senokot and lactolase regularly, but god help me if I forget!