Amy,

Thanks for the insight. Another long day is over and I'm getting ready for bed. I made the 1300 Calorie shake today. My wife said it tasted great. I wish I could taste it, I did manage to get about 8oz in me though. My throat is really sore right now, tough to swallow even water. I had the patch bumped up to 50MG so hopefully that will take the edge off a bit. I was trying to stay away from the morphine because of my constipation issues but I gave in and had some of that too. It is such a terrible cycle. Take the pain meds and get constipated then take laxatives until I finally go. The only thing that worked for me lateley is magnesium citrate and that generally gives me the runs for a couple of days. My RO has precribed another laxative called Lactulose Solution, has anyone used it? If so did it work?

Anyways just wanted to say thanks for all your help.

Tim Stoj