I have been dealing with severe constipation for the past nearly two years, along with painful bloating that sometimes gets so bad that I look 6 months pregnant. I m a 22 year old female and it s getting to the point where I don t know what else to do. I take over the counter stool softeners, which seem to work to a degree, and have even eliminated certain foods from my diet. The bloating is still there though. I have had a colonoscopy, Sitz Marker study, etc. Nobody can find out what is going on. Everything came back relatively normal, along with ultrasounds and MRI.