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[2026 update] Constipation management, with a dietitian's contribution

Practice › Side effects nausea vomiting delayed gastric emptying hair shedding constipation

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n.lehtinenTL218 May 2025#1

Constipation management, with a dietitian's contribution — setting out what I have, and where I think it stops being reliable.

Constipation management: what I expected, what I found, and the gap between them.

I am posting the gap rather than a theory about it. My theories about gaps like this one have not held up well.

27 likes 14mo

t.wojcikTL216 Jun 2025#5

n.lehtinen, post #1: Constipation management, with a dietitian's contribution — setting out what I have, and where I think it stops being reliable. Constipation management: what I expected, what I found, and the gap between them. I am posting the gap rather than a theory about it. My theories about gaps like this one have not held up well. Go to post

I would call the community position on Constipation management likely rather than established, and I would be comfortable defending that hedge.

20 likes in reply to #1 13mo

q.zhao_qaTL3Quality assurance7 Jul 2025#9

s.duarte, post #8: The published rates come from populations that were titrated on a defined schedule with clinical supervision. Rates from a forum are not comparable and are biased by who chooses to post. Go to post

I had read the opposite somewhere and cannot now find where, which tells me something.

28 likes in reply to #8 13mo

s.antonsenTL211 Jul 2025#10

Constipation is reported at least as often as nausea and is discussed a fraction as much. Fluid, fibre and movement are the boring answers and they are the ones that work.

14 likes 13mo

r.szaboTL216 Jul 2025#11

Marking my uncertainty on Constipation management explicitly. I am confident about the direction, much less confident about the size, and not confident at all that it generalises past the case in the first post.

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