[mudricky]

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Hi,

I found out that my partner has been taking Dulcolax constipation tablets for two years now. It's says on the information leaflet/website you can only take them for a week.
my partner since young has had problems with doing the toilet and they help her to go she has continued to take them, even after a doctor told her to stop taking them.

Does anyone know what damage they could cause to her body and why she can't take for a long time.

This is the website for the medicine.
http://www.dulcolax.co.uk/uk/Homepage.jsp

Thanks Mudricky

[mpvt]

I don't know about any actual damage you can get from taking laxatives.What I do know is that they become mentally addictive.After taking laxatives for a length of time they tend have a reverse effect making the bowel lazy.This in turn makes the user use more and more until the laxative is totally useless and is now working against the user......Dave

[zippysgoddess]

Actually, they aren't just mentally addictive, your body can become physically dependent on them as well, basically your body forgets how to move your bowels without them and you hit a point where you have to have them in order to have a BM.

When you suddenly stop taking them after prolonged use, you won't have a BM for a long time, and when you finally do, it will be hard as a rock and very hard to go.

OOps, sorry, Dave pretty well covered that, just not in my exact words, I didn't read his whole post.

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