Struggling to urinate

Did your doctor recommend you any laxatives in particular or prescribe you any? Dulcolax isn't really the best as it doesn't soften your stools, rather just makes your gut work harder. You don't necessarily need prune juice for fibre intake, you can get plenty from cereals such as bran, fruit and vegetables and avoiding things like loads of starch and red meats. This may be worth another trip to the GP to discuss ways of treating any contipation and they may be able to prescribe something more appropriate.

Will they try to give me a suppository or enema though? I would like to avoid this as I'm getting sore, will they give me a normal laxative first?

I probably sound quite childish, I just haven't ever had experience in hospitals or Gps etc I'm never ill. So it's quite worrying for me.

If you really are extremely backed up, and laxatives/diet fail to shift it, then that may become an option, although they will likely try some appropriate laxatives in the first instance. Definitely worth a trip to the GP either way, this really needs sorting (and if this approach doesn't work, other diagnoses may need to be considered).

My main advice though is to not worry about what people on the internet has said, even those here with medical training haven't assessed you clinically/examined you. Even if something has taken a few trips to the GP, it is still worth reattending, GPs often use time and reappointments to follow patients up and to clarify a diagnosis, so it would be an appropriate thing to do.

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