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Can Stool Softener Help With Stomach Pain?
Hi, I've been feeling very hungry in the morning when I woke up. I'm not sure if this was hunger or if my stomach was hurting a lot however. So I took a stool softener after eating 2 sandwiches and felt slightly better for 3 hours. When I got home I had to run to the toilet all of a sudden. When I sat on the toilet, I was pooping a brown liquid at the same rate at which I urinate. I do not think a stool softener is supposed to do this.
Mon, 3 Nov 2014
Hi.
Stool softener taken at an inappropriate time can cause such problems. It is always taken at bedtime. Other possibility is that you took more than usual dose of it. So you got the problem you have mentioned.
Never take this particular medicine as it does not suit you.
Take plenty of water orally , banana, activated charcoal tablets.
No one takes laxative for hunger pains, Get your blood sugar tested , you may be diabetic.
Stool softener taken at an inappropriate time can cause such problems. It is always taken at bedtime. Other possibility is that you took more than usual dose of it. So you got the problem you have mentioned.
Never take this particular medicine as it does not suit you.
Take plenty of water orally , banana, activated charcoal tablets.
No one takes laxative for hunger pains, Get your blood sugar tested , you may be diabetic.
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