My 22 year old daughter suffers from bad constipation, and I have finally convinced her to do the salt water flushes. Now she is hooked on them, and does one just about every Saturday. Before doing the salt water flushes she told me that 11 days could go by without her having a bowel movement! This was really hard for me to understand, as I don't have that problem at all, so it's hard to relate. But since she has been doing the saltwater flushes she says that she will have a BM at least 3 more times in any given week, without doing anything different, and this is besides the cleaning out that the salt water flush does itself on the day she does it. She loves it! She feels so much better, and her stomach is flatter. I can't imagine how she must have felt before she listened to my advice...:-) I think she must have really been impacted and couldn't go on her own, even with the use of laxatives and lots of fiber. Now she is more normal and feels a LOT better. The SWF (Salt-Water-Flush) is such a simple thing to do, but make sure that you use Sea Salt and warm water while doing it. The recipe is all over these boards, just do a search for it. I hope this helps you...:-)