hi sheri ...i am so with you. i've suffered constipation my whole life and, since finding curezone, posted about it repeatedly ...i now have a long story to share but if you'll read all of it, i hope it will help you.
i began with fiber sources (make sure you drink LOTS of water ...and better, if you can learn about, and can get to drink, alkaline and structured water, because they may help your body absorb and make more use of the water you do drink):
* gg bran crispbread crackers (5 grams of insoluble fiber PER cracker with 2 net carbs),
* eden soy canned soy beans (7g of fiber with 1 net carb per 1/4 can),
* bob's red mill flax meal (4g fiber per 2 tablespoons)
i liked to top the crackers WITH some of the soy beans and maybe even a little flax too, mixed into SALSA, for a fiber KA-POW! and it was tasty and, the above DID help, but they never really "healed" my problem - i felt like i was running on a fiber treadmill and could barely keep up, if i missed even a step i'd be in trouble...
and things got worse for me before they got better - i went on this extreme (for me it was extreme) intestinal cleanse system (they were called "intestinal cleanse #1" and "intestinal cleanse #2" caps from, i think, relfe.com) with cascara, senna and... for me it was an INTENSE experience - within 1 or 2 days of starting (1 #1 capsule after dinner the first day, then 2 the 2nd day), i definitely went to the bathroom - WITH HORRIBLE CRAMPS, ALMOST DOUBLING OVER FROM THE PAIN, and burning movements in the bathroom...
because it was so harsh, i didn't complete the cleanse and, did a very unhealthy thing of ...i'd take one of the #1 capsules here and there when i'd get really constipated and, eventually i caused my body to become semi-immune so that even they didn't work anymore... and/or i may have caused myself lazy bowel syndrome which is when your bowel stops responding after you've relied too long on laxatives...
all of this was a horrible experience but, i believe it was essential to being able to get to the next step...
later... i found this
parasite cleanse by enuvia (and nope, i'm not hawking enuvia because, there's now more to my story) and, after a long time off the intestinal cleanse system, i went back to it, finished off what was left of the #1 capsules (thinking it was having not much effect), while starting on the ENUVIA
parasite component only---- THEN switched over to the "movement" component of the enuvia
parasite cleanse system (it has 3 parts ...parasite formula, movement, and probiotic replenishing caps) and... it made things so natural for me... for the first time in my life...
but i was worried i wouldn't be able to go without it, so... i tried to taper off ...from one every morning and one every night, to only one at night ...then sometimes i'd try to hold off on a night's dosage until the next morning ...and the morning after that, hold off until the night, spacing more and more until i finished the bottle...
that REALLY helped me - but it wasn't magic, i still had to watch my diet and, again, if i started eating a bad diet my body couldn't do damage control at all... and i started eating dried plums, needing help again - and at first, one dried plum would help ...but before long, i had to take two, three ...eventually i could eat 1/2 a package and they did nothing...
now FINALLY, thanks to all the people in this community, i discovered
Liver Flushes and - beyond the healing benefits of the flushes themselves, some wise people here told me that bile is a key to keeping your digestive tract running smoothly and, it has been a revelation for me--as my liver has started to unclog, i realized that my biliary ducts must have been totally stopped up and now that they're able to flow a little ........and i've been taking orthophosphoric acid drops (20 drops in 4oz apple juice a few times a day ...which, i understand is controversial to some people because, it's highly acidic), i think it has been dissolving stones and releasing more bile and, every time i take some, i have a very natural movement ...and i've also started taking dr. christopher's liver & gallbladder formula and, i'm really hoping that, keeping my bile flow healthy is going to restore my function from now on...
so, all that lengthy recount is intended with a purpose - fiber (with water) was good ...intestinal cleanse caps were strong, but can't be relied on forever ...and enuvia's movement formula is the most gentle, reliable longterm supplement i've found ...........but i think for life long health, keep doing the
Liver Cleanses and take supplements that help continually dissolve clogging stones and, stimulate bile, and... i'm hoping it will help you the way it has helped me!