Following my ordeal last Friday, the Senokot finally did its job, so now I'll get ahead of this so it doesn't happen again following Wednesday's Erbitux treatment by taking one immediately upon arriving home thereafter. (It was the following Thursday/Friday that the constipation occurred.) So since then, back to "normal.")

The suggestions from all of you are good ones, but I think they assume the constipation hasn't reached the point (like it did for me, late Friday after I had first posted) where the spasms were basically involuntary because I was so impacted. Remember that I'm eating solid foods, as well as lots of liquid protein drinks, so I was definitely plugged up real good.

The rest of the treatment is okay; about what I expected. Burning in my throat and mouth are tolerable, but yesterday my lips were burning up. (I'm fair skinned and my lips have always been vulnerable to sun, etc., anyway, so that didn't surprise me either.) After trying all sorts of moisturizing solutions, I finally remembered Bag Balm (very heavy on lanolin) which I use in the winter when my fingers crack. Bag Balm is used extensively on dairy farms to keep cows' udders from chaffing so bad that they bleed especially in winter. True story. Now you can buy it at any pharmacy and it comes in a cute little green tin with a pink clover design so if guests discover it in your bathroom, they don't think you really live in a barn when they're not there.