One other suggestion I failed to mention in my previous post. Try this: you put a hot towel on your abdomen for a few minutes. It brings the blood to the area and softens your tummy up a bit. Then you sit up and do a massage to your abdomen, first the left, then the right moving from like your waist to your mid lower abdomen using the heal of your palm on your hand. You have to press in a bit, it is sort of a manual way to move things through your intestines. Do one side, then the other steadily. If you do that for about five minutes at a time, it should help. I did not learn that from a doctor, though. I learned it from my Mom and she knew everything. Denise