Well first I will tell you that you need to visit a doctor ASAP or go to the ER, because not having a bowel movement in 5 days or even more can be extremely bad. By that I mean, if it stays backed up inside you for too long and your intestine burst that can be deadly. Poisons and toxins in the there could cause bad infections and that could be deadly. So you need to go to the doctor or ER, and this is serious, because laxatives aren't going to help and i'll tell you why.
Even if you are eating more than you were before a lack of food leads to small, inadequate stools that have a hard time (even if they're soft) moving through the colon. If you're not eating enough this will be frequent and common. Also you said that you used to have a laxative addiction? Well that could be causing it because the body becomes dependent on the laxatives to defecate, making it difficult for the body to naturally pass a stool once the laxatives are no longer being used.
What it seems you have now is :
Laxative dependence. This is when the colon requires larger and larger doses of laxatives to produce bowel movements. People often become so dependent on laxatives that their body loses the ability to produce bowel movements on it's own without the aid of laxatives.
I suggest you take NO MORE laxatives and go to the doctor to get this sorted. Speak to a nutritionist if you have one or get one..Not eating enough ends up causing more harm than good.


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03 Mar 2012
Kinda gross.. but havent gone to the bathroom in 5 days??
It really really hurts and my stomach just extends further every day . Iv been eating fiber foods and milk and fruits for a week. cuz 5 days ago the only way i could go was with the help of a laxative. I also run track 3-4.5 miles every day. so that should be helping but its so unconfertable to run like this :( i cant take any more laxatives cuz i used to have a laxative addition and if i take them everyday again it would come bak ( its not cuz of that. That was 6ish months ago) :(