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Permalink Reply by Jewel35 on January 9, 2009 at 9:04am

My son has always had bowel problems, since birth actually. He was diagnosed woth chronic constipation before he was diagnosed with dmd.

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Permalink Reply by Julie Gilmore on January 11, 2009 at 9:06am

Ditto, Mitchell has always had bowel issues, and has just spent 10 days in hospital with a severe impaction.......... now his bowel is hardly working at alll, and he has to have bowel softeners, bowel stimulants and lots and lots of movicol (osmotic laxative) every day.........

I think sometimes the gastro doctors underestimate the effect of DMD on the smooth muscle in the bowel - some say it is affected, most say it isn't.......

Age wise I don't know, Mitch is 11, but he stopped walking at 7 so I guess its all relative.....

Good luck :-)

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