Relief

Might not be the sort of thing the world wants to hear but I said I would be honest... so alas, I am constipation free!! Movicol has been a good friend of mine these past few days and I only wish I had been taking it from the minute I was put onto painkillers. With everything else going on, your bowels are not an additional thing you wish to be worrying about and I found only made me feel more sick and lethargic than necessary. 

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I hope that these accounts are of some help to those of you out there in the same situation as I was a week ago. Please feel free to leave a comment, whether it is an experience of your own or a question you would like to ask and hopefully we can encourage more people to discuss this issue. Thank you

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