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Hello! My daughter is 5 years old and has been on Miralax since she

was 3. First the gastro diagnosed her with functional constipation

then after a year of Miralax every day she started to have us ween

her off of it. Almost another year went by and we were still having

a hard time with her pushing out her stools. She would hold it in

for up to 2 weeks sometime then it was horrible to see her push out

these huge stools. Needless to say we brought her back to the

gastro her now has her diagnosed with encopresis and is back on

Miralax. She has been going a couple times a day for the past 3

months. I started getting concerned with the medicine a month ago

when I started noticing how she urinates alot and always feels like

she has to go, almost like she has a weak bladder. I took her to

the pediatrician to see if it was a urinary tract infection and it

was negative and the gastro said that frequent urination is not a

side effect of the Miralax. So I actually made an appt. with a

urologist which was today but I cancelled because I found this group

and thought I could get some opinions before I put my daughter

through more doctor visits. On top of the urination issue I have

noticed a change in my daughter's personality and have brought her

to shrinks and she started to stutter which I have her going to

speech therapy for. I thoguht that her issues were my fault because

I was very frustrated when she wasn't pushing out her poopy and I

did get mad at times with her or I thought her personality was

affected by just going through the trauma of pushing out the large

stools. I am really lost, sad and confused with all of this. If

anyone can offer me any suggestions I would appreciate it. The

gastro does not want me to start weening her off of the Miralax til

January because she is starting Kindergarten in September. Please,

any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thank you.