No bowel movements

How long since your surgery?  This is something I remember vividly.  They told me to take Miralax.  I took one dose and nothing had happened by the time I thought it shoud have, so I took another dose....  MISTAKE!!!  Anyway, the 9th day after my surgery was pretty much spent on the commode.  Live and learn, I guess.  

Dinamite could be the answer...lol joking aside I was the same after my op didn't go for a week as soon as I got home into my own comfort area the magic started to work must have sat there an hr but ho the relief x

 

Lol I was with you on that one Britni!

Took

Me about ten days to go ..

Was getting worried .

Apparently is it quite common after surgery plus the co codamol I take still makes one notoriously constipated . I hated the taste of the stool softener .. Yuk! I ate prunes, drank orange juice, lots of water and stool softener but took ages . By god that first one will make your eyes smart it was like giving birth so be prepared !

Ten weeks on back to normal so try

Not to worry tho it does feel weird and anything codeine based bungs you up !! Good luck !

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Yip 8 days waiting for me before any movement. I took lactolase but doubled the dose without any success, lentil soup worked a treat 😊

Brittni2103:

Took me a week (well , 6 days) post op to have a bowl movement. That includes laxatives and stool softener.

The opioids are notorious for constipation.

take the stool softener with a full glass of water.

Then have a cup of hot tea.

If you take too many narcotics, things will stop moving.

Stool softners  everyday lots of water and prunes . Takes awhile but once you start again keep up with stool softners everyday when you r on pain Meds . Try to walk around too good luck. Orange juice and hot tea works too 

It's awful, I know!! I finally got desperate at one week postop anterior RTHR and had my husband help me with an enema then we hung out in the bathroom and "chatted" a while. It wasn't very pleasant but it was certainly effective! After that I took the stool softness 3-4xs/day....

and a very good morning to y'all ...

just checking in with you ... oh, that is terrible .. in my case the hospital did not discharge me before I had a BM ..got something for it and luckily for me, it worked ..

not sure about the banana .. I usually eat one when it is the other way around ...

how about black coffee and a cigarette on an empty stomach? always worked for my granddad ...

wishing you great relief

big warm hug

renee

Laxido! The standard dose is one or two sachets per day. For compacted bowel you can do 8 sachets (two to each glass of water) That will shift anything. But you may well find nature will sort it out anyway. And if they told you not to you probably should follow their advice.

Bowel surgery 4 years ago gave me rather too much experience with this area.

Are you taking any opioids (or codeine) as they make you constipated? Even ibuprofen can have that effect.

I think I went over a week and you do start to get uncomfortable - not a great feeling.

Mike