Lizzy and her constipation

So back in September of 2018 Lizzy started to complain of stomach pain. Now I thought she might be sick, but no other symptoms came about. So I brought it up at her 4 year check up in October. My mom had given me the idea it might be caused by a food allergy. So we started tracking her food intake. But her doctor assured me that wasn't the case. She did suggest fiber gummies for Lizzy to take. Well another month came and nothing changed, except she constantly was saying her tummy hurt. And it got to the point where she thought that an ice pack would help, so most nights she went to bed with an ice pack. After we got back from our trip to Arizona in November I took her in to the doctors again. This time they took an x-ray and we determined that she was constipated. In the x-ray you can see the poop going pretty far up her intestines. So we watched a video that Primary Children's Hospital put out about constipation.  And we started her on laxatives. The original goal was it would only take a week tops to get her all flushed out. Well it didn't happen. So I just gave her a cap full of Miralax once daily in her drink (Miralax is a powered laxative that is flavorless) and that helped keep the stool soft but it never cleaned her out. During all of this and before (way back in September), Lizzy had started pooping chunks of hard compact poop on her bedroom floor. We learned that this is a side effect of being constipated-"having bathroom accidents in places not the bathroom". Flash back to present day and Jake and I are losing our minds with how often she poops on her bedroom floor (at least 2-3 times a week, although for the last half of December and the beginning of January it didn't happen and we thought we were past it) and so the last week we took her mattress away twice (because of the pooping on the floor and) she had to sleep on the floor. So after a month she wasn't cleaned out, and she was still pooping on her floor. And Jake and I were worried her body would get to used to having laxatives that it would cause further problems- in that she wouldn't be able to poop without the laxatives. So I took her back to the Dr in January and she said for two months to do 1 chocolate laxative during the week and then on the weekends, do the Miralax too and get her cleaned out.

So now everyday Lizzy gets her "medicine" (i.e. the laxative(s) and fiber supplements).

As of 05/27/19: she has been getting less and less laxatives to where as of this date she hasn't had a laxitive in two weeks. She has been pooping regularly in the potty and has zero accidents. We are super proud of her and hope we can keep up this progress.