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When Colleen Henderson’s three-year-old daughter complained of pain while using the bathroom, doctors brushed it off as a urinary tract infection or constipation, common maladies in the potty-training years.

It caused me some very painful health problems; I had horrible constipation for a week, and so after this episode I just decided to give up all meat and became a vegan.

GLP-1 briefly slows the rate food moves through the gut, which explains the most common side effects: bloating and constipation.

From Salon

She said she felt "fobbed off" when she told doctors about her constipation and rectal bleeding.

From BBC

However, opioids can cause severe side effects such as addiction, nausea, and constipation.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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