SURVEY: Do iron supplements bind you or make you poop?

If you take iron supplements, how do you react to them???

Constipation station ? or Poo Poo Plater???

Hi Jen

I take 300mg liquid iron daily in small amount of diluted prune juice. But really that darn iron always constipates me

Cathy

constipation almost immediately
i have been taking miralax because of it

<------ has never taken them.

However  -  every lecture in nursing class states they constipate.

Pam

Nursing class says they constipate?   They haven't met me yet.  Iron makes me go and if I stop the iron, I get constipated.

I am eternally anemically constipated, but peri-colace and fiber-stat really helpout.

I hate iron. I get constipated just thinking about them.

I have taken it since day one and it has never bothered me either way.

damn it.

i am the most regular gastric bypass person you'll ever meet. i am literally woken up on the weekends by my bowels for my AM poo.

i dont want to lose this...it's so important to me.....waaaaaaah

I assume you need to start iron supplements?

Increase the fluids, maybe increase to two servings of your beans and broccoli a day...and if needed you could use colace or something like that as needed (I personally prefer peri colace as to the regular colace...the regular colace doesn't seem to touch me most times)

I'll be hoping for the best for you and your bowels!