Sluggish Bowel: Many individuals – almost all who are women – to some degree will experience difficulty with bowels that they would not describe actually as “constipation” but are still a big amount of bother. These symptoms could be bloating abdominally as well as discomfort, abdominal fullness feeling, as well as heaviness or the need to strain to produce any bowel activity. There are certain cases where it is a tendency to develop this constipation in specific situations only, perhaps links to travel or if there is a lifestyle change such as a new diet or new job. Your complain might be that you should be more vigilant with the diet to ensure that a constant fiber intake is kept to avoid becoming blocked up or that you need to take laxatives occasionally, quite literally to “unblock”.

All these complaints are just lesser degrees of what might normally be call constipation. But individuals simply do not like to see themselves as suffering from constipation even when their symptoms are to some point, almost identical. Their reluctance to have these symptoms are at a point where they might reject any treatment because this is a problem they will not accept they have.