Hemorrhoidectomy experience (postive so far)

day 4--startin vomitting early in the morning (before any pain medicine) and was still having diarrhea and belly pain and discomfort. I called my doctor who told me to go to the ER. They gave me fluids to compensate for all the diarrhea and vomitting as well as nausea meds and some very powerful pain medication. The xray showed i had stool built up on my right side of the colon, but the left side was full of gas, which was causing the discomfort. I was taken off ALL stool softeners and put back on a low fiber diet. 

however, i came home and in the evening passed my first semi-formed stool. Seriously the worst pain ive ever experienced in my life. It only last 30 seconds, but I just about passed out from the pain. So, against my docs orders, I took two colace anyways out of fear that I would pass hard stools. The colace seems to have helped me. Now I have soft stools like soft-serve ice cream. It still hurts to have a BM, but now that im not constantly having diarrhea or passing semi-hard stools, I feel better. Apparently, they blamed the Miralax and told me not to take it at all anymore since my body seems to react to it by means of violent, explosive diarrhea. 

Today has been better. I had a small, soft BM earlier. I took some pain meds afterwards, and I feel better now. If i can just keep having them only 2 or 3 times a day, I think I'll be feeling better. It stil hurts to sit, but my little donut pillow helps a lot. 

I am attempting to go back to class tomorrow. Ill have to sit for a total of 5 hours. I'm not sure if i'll make it, but I'm going to try because missing class is taking a toll on my schooling. I'm spending the day today trying to catch up on things I missed. I'm still trying to be home as much as possible because when I need to have a BM, i had to go immediately, and i'd rather not scream and moan in a public bathroom. 

I think it'll be a slow recovery for me. But today has by far been my best day. Hopefully it's all uphill from here. 

so my advice is to BE CAREFUL WITH MIRALAX. If it causes diarrhea, STOP TAKING IT. Once it causes diarrhea, my doctor said it would just keep causing it. Stool softeners and citricel is what I was told to take. I hate citricel, so I am relying on 2 stool softeners a day. I have my bath ready to jump into after each BM since I cant wipe. 

Ive also began to notice blood in stools and drainage, which is normal. Im just wearing panty liners lest I ruin my pants or undies. 

definitely a slow recovery process for me though. Maybe i'm a whiney baby, but i do have to agree with others about the extreme off-the-charts pain due to this surgery (still not worse than my induction with my daughter though). Ass pain is no joke!