I have slow transit sometimes.
HORMONES can affect bowels. For years during my menstruating years 10 mins. B4 a bleed began even if a period wasn't due, I would have to find a loo, FAST as I had 'the runs'
.
My Mum swears by a chewy sweet (name escapes me) : it has figs in it : that she buys from Holland and Barratt. I had
Colpermin peppermint capsules to ease upper gut wind and
Motillium which is an anti-sickness medication which moves the bowel to empty - I had to swallow both within an hour of eating my main meals. To clear the upper stomach B4 the next food entered, my bowel spasm had practically stopped. Get a copy of Micheal Moseley's recent book about the gut as it explains fully how food enters the stomach and is processed ....... [not to be read B4 or after eating
].
I took the upper mixture for 5 years then tried
Actimel - which worked well for me. Again, swallowing 3 pots daily initially encouraged my bowel to get back to 'normal' - I'm a go in the morning Girl - and certainly, when on holiday where we didn't have a fridge I noticed that my bowel slowed up within 36 hours without
Actimel.
Sometimes my bowel doesn't feel as though it has emptied fully ........