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#314 Constipation: When the Flow Won’t Go with Dr. Iris Wang

The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast

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Constipation

Doctors can formally diagnose constipation as three or fewer bowl movements per week. If patients are used to having a bristol six and they're now a bristol three, sometimes they'll complain about constipation. The last kind of symptom base question that i'll ask is, in women, or or on female gender patient, do you ever feel like you need to splint the back wall of the vagina? So what they'll do is put a finger into the vaginal canal and push on the back in order to help a bowl movement come out. That very specific question makes me concerned about pelvic organ prolaps,. And specifically arectical cause that bulges into the vaginal Canal and they spl

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