"Colon Irrigation" of warm water for about one hour.
Ah, those are what they used to call enemas when I was a wee lad. I used to dread them. They would temporarily free up a blockage, but they didn't address the underlying cause of the problem, so the constipation would usually return. Dr. John Harvey Kellogg was a big promoter and fan of enemas. He apparently used to give them to himself every day despite eating what he called a healthy breakfast food of cooked corn flakes. It apparently never occurred to him that the problems with breakfast cereals and other processed agrarian foods might be why he developed what he viewed as a need for enemas.
I purchased the small enema device that Lex Rooker got success with but found it inadequate for my needs. I hope I don't have to go the route of the big enema bag.
The therapist told me it will help loosen the kinks/twist in the colon even though the MD said this was how my colon formed in the womb and only surgery will correct this.
My mother claims that the family chiropracter got the kink out of her colon with manipulation. I think he used some sort of massage-type technique like reiki or myofascial release or Swedish massage. Don't know whether he really helped her or it was just coincidences, but that chiropractor was one of only two that I ever noticed any spinal benefits from, or any benefits of any kind, for that matter. So if I still lived near there I might give it a try. If I don't have much additional success I might inquire into that sort of thing in my area. Thanks for the reminder.
I did try massage therapists in the past too. It was nice and relaxing but provided no noticeable benefit beyond that, whereas the chiropractor of my childhood seemed to lessen my back pain and help my posture, which in turn improved my muscle strength. I think he said that the bone impingement on neural connections were cutting down on the signals to my muscles. Theoretically that could contribute to constipation as well.
REALLY!!!!! Man i wish i would have known this or had a doctor like yours!
You wouldn't have wanted him. He prescribed Glycolax for me. I knew that was powerful stuff that cleaned people out before undergoing colonoscopies, so I asked him, "Is this stuff really safe to take every day?" and he said yes and assured me that there were "no side effects" with it. I was still skeptical, so I read the material that came with it and it did indeed seem to be very benign. Only after I developed very painful toe and foot cramps and did some online searching on polyethylene glycol (the generic name) did I discover that in Europe a law had been passed years earlier to require that electrolytes be added to the product so that it wouldn't give people electrolyte deficiencies and thus cramps, despite the claims of the American pharmaceutical company that sold it that it did nothing of the sort.
But cooked veggies get absorbed right?
They don't get absorbed well in me. I had a cranky old doc at one point (one of my worst) who in regards to IBS-C just crankily spouted "Just eat cooked corn!" That sounded pretty nonsensical, but his nurse was a more reasonable and intelligent person and she also suggested I cut out dairy products, which had helped her. So I tried both--first eating lots of cooked corn (which largely went right through me) and then cutting out all dairy. Increasing my cooked corn intake only seemed to make matters worse if anything. Cutting out the dairy did seem to provide some small benefit and that was probably one of my first steps toward a Paleo-type diet.
Out of stock
Their smallest size is still available if you're willing to pay for it. My next order I'm going to buy a case of the small jars to save a little money.
but i will watch the site for more, does that help with the colon too?
I think it only helps me in the sense that it's soft and easily digestible and thus doesn't contribute to constipation. It hasn't been magically beneficial. I suppose it could partly be because I don't eat a pound a day of honey like Brady does, but I tried eating my max in one sitting, which was about 2/3 of a lb. It didn't do much noticeably for my bowels, but it did wonders for my skin.
I don't do honey b/c of sugar
Yes, even raw honey spikes my BG and mucks up my teeth and gums, so I try not to overdo it.
You mentioned having the redundant colon so i pay attention when i see your name on topics that address this but i just don't have the time to read much either - don't like sitting down long enough.
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Hmm, not sure how fair or sporting it is to expect other people to do the work of providing you with info if you're not willing to put much time into your own searching or reciprocate, and what about the saying "The more you give, the more you will receive"?
On the other hand, it's good not to sit too long, as exercise can help the bowels some.
I not only tried the cleanses you mentioned, I used to sell them when I worked for a small health store and I know the BS marketing behind such products. What you do is you take a laxative product and you add some fancy-sounding herbs to it and then call it a "cleanse" and double the price. Or even better, you sell the exact same ingredients as a cheap laxative but just give it a fancy name and a lot of advertising and convince people there's something special about it. Instead of calling what comes out shit, you call it "toxins" or "poisons", so people feel like they're getting their money's worth instead of getting reamed. When I compared the ingredients list on cheap, generic products and saw that they were nearly or even exactly the same as some of the fancy-sounding expensive products, I realized that these marketers are brilliant. Completely lacking in ethics, but brilliant.
For example, this elderly lady came into the store one day and asked for H2Go. A clever name. We didn't have the product and it wasn't even in our catalogs to order, but I looked it up with the store's Internet connection and found that the ingredients were:
Magnesium 1152mg 288%
(as magnesium oxide)
Sodium (as sodium croscarmellose) 8mg 1%
Other Ingredients:
Microcrystalline cellulose, menthol....which were precisely the ingredients on one of our cheapest Mg products. I showed the lady this, but she insisted, "No, no it HAS to be H2Go, the one on TV" (in their ads they use marketing BS like "Only H2Go has Active Magnesia") and she had a zombie look on her face. I knew then that the sale was lost, told her about the other couple stores in town that sold supplements and wished her good luck in finding the product.
After looking at all the "cleanse" and "natural laxative" products on the shelves and on the Internet, I realized that most contained one or more of three basic ingredients: fiber (usually insoluble, sometimes soluble or both, with insoluble psyllium being the most common fiber ingredient and soluble inulin being another common one and there are pricier soluble fibers like acacia, guar gum and pectin), magnesium (most often magnesium hydroxide, which is both the cheapest form and also the strongest laxative Mg because it's the least absorbable/bioavailable form) and senna/sennosides. If the rest of the stuff were truly super-effective, they wouldn't need to add one or more of the big three.
While I worked in that store I used the opportunity to try lots of the products and learn about them and ask my customers if they got any benefits. I was rather disappointed to learn that neither I nor most of my customers got noteworthy benefits from most of them.
i have been soooo dependent on fiber 
I bet my intestines are so stretched it will take awhile to get back to the right size.
That may well be. I've had great improvement, but still have a ways to go. Such physical structure changes have taken longer to improve and resolve for me than issues like GERD that cleared up quickly once I hit on the way of eating that did the trick.
