Rubbing my stomach after a big meal helps!

Believe it or not, you are not alone! Many of our community members who suffer with IBS-C use self-massage to help with their symptoms, as you can see: https://irritablebowelsyndrome.net/living/self-massage-for-constipation
It is something that seems to help and many of those who have tried it say it is comforting, at the least! Let us know if there's anything we can do to help with it! Keep on keepin' on, DPM

Although I still get bubbly by night time, it still makes me more comfortable to massage my stomach straight after eating a large meal.
I ate lasagne for dinner and felt full afterwards, I sat up straight and rubbed my stomach in a circle until a big lasagna-flavoured burp came up. Then I felt so much less full after that, and no indigestion.

I wish it was that easy for me. Nothing seems to help... much. Although I do everything I can think of, including stomach massage and clockwise massage of my intestinal tract to help the bowel contents move along. Right now, I am in a double-bind, because I am withdrawing from narcotic pain meds that were prescribed for me when IBS ended up putting me in hospice. Yes, hospice. I was dying. I somehow found the fortitude to bring myself out of that and eat enough to put some life back into me (that was about four months ago), but came out severely underweight, malnourished, and with total muscle wasting. Now the withdrawal process from the pain meds is causing round-the-clock nausea, combined with a host of other heinous symptoms. I still have two doses of the "bridge narcotic" they gave me to go, and then I suppose the real fun starts?! I worry because I can't tell at this point what is IBS and what is the withdrawal. I am assembling a host of doctors to help me, and have an initial intake telehealth appt with a leading gastroenterologist (my prior doctor was a gas-lighter who told me to "drink more milkshakes.") at a leading research university. Her specialty is IBS leading to malnutrition, so I am holding out great hope for her to help me. But I can't even meet with her until 26 Aug. I am working with a good nutritionist, and a therapist, as well as my primary care. Just hanging on until 26 Aug and/or when these withdrawal symptoms subside. That wasn't exactly an answer to the question, or maybe it was, but then I went on to tell my "story." Sorry for taking up so much bandwidth. Thank you.

I do find that massage tends to help but more for diarrhea than is blocked up and not for constipation. The massage tends to help to prevent constipation, but once I have it the massage isn't helpful for me and is often painful.