I’ve been constipated my whole life and no body has ever been able to tell me why. I had a colonoscopy and my colon was healthy, also had a transit time study and showed my colon was very slow. Still no explanation why. Natural things ive tried to improve my bowel movments that rarely work are bowel probiotics, ox bile, chlorella, slippery elm, kfibre, guar gum, dandelion, peppermint, all herbs known for constipation and I have to rely on seana laxatives, osmotic laxatives, tried large doses of magnesium citrate but burns my stomach, I rotate all this stuff but still constipated 5 days of the week, I have to use enema twice a week. I’ve always made sure to drink a lot of water and fibre both insouluble and soulable per day. I dont know why im like this… 🙁

Also my bloating is only minimal. I did have bad bloating like back when I had sibo. But now whats kept my bloating minimal is taking digestive enzymes with every meal, ox bile and sibo fodmap diet. The small to moderate buldge starts from my belly button down, so from that point feels like it has stopped moving and just dries up quickly!

Increase it was stomach acid, I’ve also tried adding hcl, but it hurts so bad, even acv and lemon water. I don’t have reflux though. I chew on 2cm of ginger root before every meal, don’t know if it does anything but it’s the most gentle for me.

Another thing I will mention is I know physical excercise helps and I’m not very active because i’m 10kgs underweight for unexplained reasons, trying so hard to put on weight, so my only activity I can do is 10 min walk around the block.

I don’t know what to do for myself Marla 🙁 what is going on in my body that’s responsible for all this!!!