Why do they give all the girls laxatives?

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Simply not true, Awesome.

I've worked in several as a psychiatric nurse. No one forces a med on adults or kids. There are exceptions--if a person is wildly assualtive/combative or actively trying to kill him/herself, yes, then we do force medication. Other than that, most state's mental health codes simply do not allow it.

vchimpanzee,

Man, I know how painful being constipated can.

I had a 4 week stay in hospital (in ICU) after two 14 hour operations for mouth cancer, they were complicated very complicated and dangerous operations. Long story short - for the pain I had the 'button' where I could get a hit morphine every 60 seconds and believe me I was pressing often, maybe too often.

After about a week a nurse asked me if I was 'regular', at the time I thought I was, but without knowing it I wasn't actually doing the business. Then the pain of constipation kicked in.

That was worse pain ever, they gave every medication they had to try and soften things up, but nothing worked, in the end a doctor had to physically remove the blockage by hand. I never thought I would be pleased to have some stick their fingers, among other objects up my rear end!

I was disgusting and the doctor certainly wasn't very happy about having to do it, but the relief of that blockage finally being removed was BLISS, and trust me a LOT came out. I slept well that night.

This was back in Dec 2009 (over xmas)and after months of chemo radio therapy and several more operations HAPPILY I'm still alive today 7 years later Jan 2016.

I'm still on morphine (among other medications) twice daily in the form of Oxycontin, but I try not to take too much (ie: I skip pills every now and then if pain level allows) so that I don't ever get constipation like that again.

-B!LL!

(Sorry for being off topic guys, but I had to get that out of me, so to speak !!)

(Edit: Corrected tons of typos and dates)