Justin's Woes

We are still struggling with Justin's constipation.  It has been a constant battle and we are no closer to solving his problem.  Since we did the colon cleanse over Father's Day weekend, we are trying to figure out the appropriate dosage of the maintenance laxative he is supposed to get every day.  The medicine comes in packets and a regular adult dose is one half to one whole packet.  We started him on one half and have since moved up to a packet and a half after not getting adequate results from the smaller doses.  I really did not want to start out with too much since it takes so long for things to move through him.  I was afraid that by the time we realized it was working it would be too late and he would be miserable while things "flowed" out.  Of course, he got stopped up again in the meantime and we had to clean him out again after he did not eat for several days and then vomited the liquid he was drinking.  (Which ended up being prune juice, not so good on carpet...)  Now he seems to be doing a little better and he even did some of his business in the potty!  Our difficulty in dosing him is the time from mouth to bottom.  Our best guess is that it's about four days for Justin.  So if we guess wrong we're too late to correct it; he's already backed up and hurting.  We've been talking with the doctor a lot and my friend posted a question on an essential oils facebook page and that yielded some new ideas for us to try.  We also go back to the doctor this coming week so I hope we can get some better answers.