Weaning yourself off of Miralax

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My chronic constipation was so bad I thought I would never stop using

Miralax. But now I haven't used it in a month or so. It turns out

it's a lot easier to control the softness of one's stools without

harsh laxatives than I thought.

Here is what I did to help me.

1) High carbohydrate and low protein/fat diet.

Yup the opposite of the atkins diet. I eat grains, vegatables

potatoes etc.

2) Lots of water (10-12 8 ounce glasses a day)

3) Vitamin C. This alone can be increased until your stools are looser.

4) mineral supplementation. Most are chronically under-supplemented.

The big one here is magnesium. Magnesium can fix your constipation

all by itself, especially if you use the highly absorbable magnesium

citrate. You can also get potassium citrate, but I think magnesium is

a little safer.

5) Salt. Supposedly a big danger to your health, yet they give salt

licks to our animals. You have to get unrefined salt however. Table

salt is toxic. E.g. Real Salt, Himalayan salt etc. Take a small

amount of salt with your vitamin C (< 1/4 teaspoon) 1 teaspoon salt

= 4-5 grams.

6) probiotics. yoghurt or health food store probiotics.