Hi all
I'm on day 3 of MC. The night before MC started, I had a cup of Senna laxative tea. I had a normal bowel movement when I woke up. Before going to sleep on Day 1, I had another cup. 6 hours later (at 6am) I was awoken by strong intestinal cramps. Going to the loo helped but it took a while. I tried going back to sleep but was disturbed at 7am by more cramps. I was eventually able to go back to sleep at woke up at 9am. No further cramps during the day. SWF was fine.
Yesterday was day 2. Last night just before going to bed, I had another cup of senna tea. This time I was awoken 4 hours later at 4:20am with medium cramps which got stronger, leading to being on the loo half an hour later. I went back to bed, cramps continued, back to the loo. Luckily, it's holiday time (and the weekend) so I was able to keep trying to fall asleep, though I was disturbed from time to time.
When I eventually got up, it was 10am. Didn't feel too rested or awake or alert.
Now I don't want to take the tea tonight because it is totally disrupting my sleep. It is also making me go to the loo way earlier than my normal morning BM happens. The SWF does its job well, so is the nightly tea still needed? I'm hardly passing anything anyway.
Any advice would be appreciated