Laxative abuse?!
Question: Before you all start shouting at me I know what I am doing is wrong but could anyone tell me the actual effects on the body because of laxitive abuse. I have been on and off laxitives for the last 4 years and more recently been taking roughly 4 pills per day. The gripping pains I get are quite bad.
Answers: Before you all start shouting at me I know what I am doing is wrong but could anyone tell me the actual effects on the body because of laxitive abuse. I have been on and off laxitives for the last 4 years and more recently been taking roughly 4 pills per day. The gripping pains I get are quite bad.
Dear KR,
I used to do the same thing, and i can tell you that laxative abuse can lead to your intestines becoming dependant on it in order to work ! Long term abuse can cause your stomach and intestines to not work properly or not work at all.
You need to stop useing them before your body shuts down on you.
Best Wishes and Good Luck.
I knew someone who did this also and she is not right. Please try and stop. Get some help.
You can upset your electrolyte balance. Electrolytes are minerals like sodium and potassium that are dissolved in the blood and other body fluids. They must be present in very specific amounts and exact ratios for proper functioning of nerves and muscles, including the heart muscle.
Laxatives and enemas (and also forced vomiting) can upset this balance by flushing essential minerals out of the body, resulting in muscle cramps, tremors, spasms, irregular heartbeat, and in some cases cardiac arrest. The heart stops, and unless the person receives immediate emergency medical treatment, s/he dies.
Laxatives and enemas (and also vomiting) remove needed fluid from the body. The resulting dehydration can lead to tremors, weakness, blurry vision, fainting spells, kidney damage, and in some cases death. Severe dehydration requires medical treatment. Drinking fluid may not hydrate cells and tissues quickly enough to prevent organ damage or death.
Laxatives irritate intestinal nerve endings, which in turn stimulate muscle contractions that move the irritant through the gut and out of the body. After a while the nerve endings no longer respond to stimulation. The person must now take greater and greater amounts of laxatives to produce bowel movements. S/he has become laxative dependent and without artificial stimulation may not have any bowel movements at all.
Laxatives and enemas strip away protective mucus that lines the colon, leaving it vulnerable to infection.
Enemas can stretch the colon, which over time becomes a limp sack with no muscle tone. No longer can it generate the muscle contractions necessary to move fecal matter out of the body.
Laxatives abusers seem to have more trouble with the following problems than do nonusers: irritable bowel syndrome (rectal pain, gas, and episodes of constipation and diarrhea) and bowel tumors (both benign and cancerous).
you know the answers - make a pledge to yourself to quit taking them.
If it hurts, why do you do it? I think you can become vitamin deficient from that.
If you are constipated, use a stool softener not a laxative or drink prune juice!! I really do not see how one could get addicted to them they make you feel like crap (no pun intended) If you do not stop pretty soon you will start to have no control over a bowel movement!!
your headed for a colostomy bag... thats where they slice off a potion of your Bowl and your stool pours out a hole in your stomach thats attached to a bag...
You know when people eat a lot and then puke?
You know, binging and purging, aka bulimia?
It's the same exact thing.
The same things that can happen when you purge can happen with laxative abuse.
They can tear you up inside.
Although your espophogeus won't erode away, and teeth.
yeah im sure the pains are bad. not only are the pains bad, but the damage you've done to your body are probablly irreversible. seriously go get some mental and phyiscal help today.
best of luck to you
it could make it so that your colon doesn't work right... from all the stimulants it can affect the way the colon works, and could cause life long problems with you going to the bathroom. you could become dehydrated, which could cause heart problems from variations in the electrolyte levels. and i would guess what ever type of pains you are having are probably related. i'm sure there is more, but thats all i know off right off hand.
Well, since they probably cause massive diahrhea (sp?) you are more than likely dehydrated. The harsh stimulants in laxatives are felt more when you are dehydrated. Long term effects could be that you cannot control your bowels, either you won't be able to go or you can't stop going. See a doctor and they will be more helpful to you than the rest of us. Don't be ashamed, many people have done the same thing and it won't be the first time they have seen this.
go to digestionhealth.com/?p=116
This can cause a number of things and right now your body is relying on the laxitives