This is probably TMI but I'm having pooper problems. Please help!

I'm now 5 weeks pp and I'm still having major problems in the bathroom. I'm taking stool softeners and that really helps but when I'm feeling better and try to ween myself off of them it's horrendous. Just one day without them and I'm close to tears with very hard stool and constipation. It's like childbirth all over again! 😫 will I have to be in stool softeners for the rest of my life?!?!?!