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worst lax experiences?

87 views 10 replies 8 participants last post by  iciloo  
#1 ·
mine are pretty basic, one time i have built a tolerance to dulcolax (my choice of lax that i have a love hate realationship with) and i only took 1. after it didnt kick in at all i forgot about it. 2 days later school started and as soon as i got on the bus the cramps started. the whole day they got more extreme more often (literally felt like i was having contractions lol). by the time is got on my bus home i couldnt even talk and i couldnt breathe in fear of shitting myslef on the bus. it was a long day. other one is just i almost shat myself in a grocery store with my mom.
 
#6 ·
Hey all, please please PLEASE be careful with Lax abuse and use.
As someone who has had bulimia for ten years now and has been abusing lax semi frequently for years I almost died due to them.
im not coming on here to tell you the things you’ve already heard but please please be careful. I am only in my late twenties, fit and active - and I have always thought I knew everything there is to know about lax.
I used a lax I had always used before (milk of magnesium) drank a little over the recommended amount , ended up in hospital for days - I almost had a heart attack, couldn’t see for days,convulsions I was hooked up to an ecg for days because my heart and blood pressure was dangerously low , - laxatives of any type mess up your electrolytes, a lot of laxatives including the ones you take contain some kind of magnesium which can give you hypermagnesium in high doses, and can kill you, I am lucky to be alive and learned this the hard way. Now my digestive system is fucked and I am constantly constipated, - so they opposite of what I was trying to achieve has now happened:) so please please please be careful with lax, they are dangerous - and if you do use lax try natural or please check the back of the package to make sure they are not containing magnesium. Please make sure you are not overdoing it, hydrate, and try to stick to ONLY the recommended dose
please stay safe!!!!
 
#9 ·
Bought myself laxative chocolate, with x1 square of a x12 block being the dose, and promptly binged the whole thing. I had school the next day and missed an entire class because I was stuck on the toilet.
As an adult, I took laxatives, binged again the next day and decided to purge by being sick, shat myself as I was throwing up. That was a real 'damn what am I doing with my life' moment
 
#10 ·
Took lax, forgot about it, took sleeping pills. You do the math. Yeah. I was in university residence and had to bring my soiled sheets down to the wash at 3 am. Luckily everyone else was asleep. Never did that again, I actually learned from that one lol.