Sometimes when stools are hard I get very bad stomach aches - - motility problem which Dr said is due to scar tissue. I had been in hospital with viral bronchitis - hope life gets a little easier now.
Is there any difference between generalac, lactulose? and miralax?
Question posted by Seahawk on 5 Sep 2014
Last updated on 5 September 2014
Added 5 Sep 2014:
As I left hospital with small bowel obstruction was rx'd generalac - have taken miralax - warm prune juice has helped - but generalac seems to build up a lot of gas - I am going to take a mylanta for gas - and see if that helps - - -
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kaismama
5 Sep 2014
Get something with simethicone for the gas, like gas x . Is miralax helping you? I am not a fan of it, I don't see it do allot for people who are very constipated. I'd get the prescription filled. Generalac and lactulose are the same, there are many different names for it but lactolose is the generic.
kaismama
5 Sep 2014
Here is something I keep forgetting about. When I was a supervisor in a nursing home, we used allot of laxatives and we found a recipe that we started giving the patients every morning with breakfast and it worked wonders. You mix equal parts of applesauce, prune juice and millers bran. You can keep a bowl of it in your frig. Every morning you eat 2 tbsps of it. We mixed it in their oatmeal. They ate the oatmeal more too, gave it some flavor.
kaismama
5 Sep 2014
They are two totally different meds.
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