constipation, chronic
"I would go up to one month without having bowel movements.  I'm very afraid of using medicine because I take medication for epilepsy and I do not want any interactions causing the anticonvulsants to be less or not effective.  My doctor gave me lactulose and told me to drink water with it.  He said not to be worried about it interfering with my medicine because what the lactulose does is pull water into the stool to make it soft.  I still don't take it with my daily medication.  I wait at least 3 hours after or 4 hours prior to taking my daily medication.  The only thing I do not like is it is very sweet.  Check to see if it is okay to take if you are diabetic.  I assume it has sugar in it because of the sweetness."