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david73016
david73016

Hi all

Had my LTHR Op last Friday afternoon. I managed to sit on the

loo for a number two last Friday morning. It is now Wednesday

afternoon and I have not been able to go since. .Plenty of hot air, and a very noisy stomach but I can't go. Also, every time I try

sitting on the raised toilet seat it is so painful!

I am using the liquid medicine that the hospital gave me to help

the bowel get some movement going but no joy so far.

Any suggestions / advice will be much appreciated.

David

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  • sarah1996
    sarah1996 david73016

    Posted

    Are you on coodemal? I know when i was on them i was really constipated hahaha. I think certain pain meds have that side effects
  • rose0000
    rose0000 david73016

    Posted

    Stool softener works well, along with a few litres of apple or prune juice. I can't recommend exact make but they are very well known and start with D, GP seemed to think it would work, and it did.

    Be careful with the hospital medicine, dont take too much, some other members will tell you the explosive results might happen sooner rather than later and much faster than you can possibly hobble to the loo smile Heads up on that one....good luck. Believe it or not once you get this issue sorted out it all gets much easier from here. I remember that being my last problem before I started to feel so much better. All the best David and hope it works..

  • jennifer531
    jennifer531 david73016

    Posted

    Miralax worked well for me. I had to take it consistently for about 4 days to get any relief and I continued to take it until I was regularly going. I was also taking a stool softener. Good luck to you. Constipation can be frustrating.
  • Roxycturtle
    Roxycturtle david73016

    Posted

    YES!  I have had horrible issues with this. I took stool softner every day and it didn't help one lick.  I also drank both prune and apple juice and ate dried fruit to help and it didn't help me.  

    Whatever you do don't wait.  As I almost had a serious complication that couldve caused a trip to the ER.  I took Milk of Magnesia to get the colon going.  This will help relieve you overnight and is very inexpensive here in the US.  Take in evening and it should work in morning.  I also use OTC suppositories if I feel the need to go but it won't move.  

    Best of luck to you David!  I hope you are free soon!  

     

    • Roxycturtle
      Roxycturtle

      Posted

      I meant to say - make sure to speak with your doctors and get this resolved as it can become a bigger issue - not just a comfort problem.

      Yes it's due to a combination of painkillers, not being able to move much etc. and yes make sure to drink lots of fluids.

      Best to you

  • linnet2015
    linnet2015 david73016

    Posted

    Hi David

    I had this problem, apparently it isn't unusual to get constipation after your operation it's usually the after effects of anaesthetic or your pain meds. The hospital gave be some of the liquid meds but also some Senacot - it did take about 6 days to work properly (!) but eventually it did.

    I know how uncomfortable it is and you don't really feel like eating but don't stop, drink plenty of water and eat lots of fibre.

    Linnet x

  • vicki00016
    vicki00016 david73016

    Posted

    Poor you, it is normal. Usually it's any morphine based meds, i.e. Tramadol, oramorph, codeine. Also your not moving around very much. Plenty of fluids and the lactose will do its job. Good luck!
  • AnnieK
    AnnieK david73016

    Posted

    I was on daily Miralax and stool softeners in gel-pill form immediately after surgery and as long as I was on the opioid pain meds. Had first movement several days after surgery and no subsequent problems.
  • Rocketman_SG6UK
    Rocketman_SG6UK david73016

    Posted

    It took me a while to 'go' the first day .... after passing lots and lots of wind.

    It's a side effect of most if not all of the strong pain killers. sad

    Graham

  • sue1957Geo
    sue1957Geo david73016

    Posted

    Its the pills david, i took chocolate and bourbon biccys into hospital as i read  on here it happens, even they didn't work and they always work, they gave me two lots of liquid stuff and it worked i was glad and not glad all in the same breath. Just eat stuff that can help.

    suexx

  • MichaelTN1UK
    MichaelTN1UK david73016

    Posted

    Senacot is very good. Not making light of your situation, but a very hot curry can make swift progress.  
    • linnet2015
      linnet2015 MichaelTN1UK

      Posted

      Michael I hope you wont have to be literally eating your words in a few days time 😀

      Linnet x

    • david73016
      david73016 MichaelTN1UK

      Posted

      Am about have a chicken Korma! Hopefully that will start me

      off! If that doesn't work a chicken curry is entering my thoughts (any excuse for a Chinese meal!)

    • MichaelTN1UK
      MichaelTN1UK linnet2015

      Posted

      He he he, well it is the best way I can think of. And as everyone knows (dah-ling) calories don't count on a Friday. 

      ​Michael x

    • Rocketman_SG6UK
      Rocketman_SG6UK MichaelTN1UK

      Posted

      You should try my wife's recipe for the Polish dish Bigos.

      Sauerkraut, shredded cabbage, and rich meat.

      Boy oh boy, what a clear out of the system all that cabbage does !

      Graham

    • david73016
      david73016 Rocketman_SG6UK

      Posted

      Thanks for the advice Rman

      It's been 5 days so far and there is a lot of hot air coming out of me ; top and bottom! Lots of choices to get movement going. I

      think eventually I am going to explode!!

      All the best

    • rose0000
      rose0000 david73016

      Posted

      David so glad you joined the forum - you really have made me laugh!! I hope you are feeling much better this morning and not too explosive??!!!!

      Beginning to feel a wee bit sorry for your wife!!!! smilesmile

    • lyn1951
      lyn1951 Rocketman_SG6UK

      Posted

      Graham - I do a winter dish that sounds the same, now I have a name for it, got the basic idea from from my dutch sister-in-law, yum yum, but I do agree with you its cleans you out.

      Good news if you can call it that, today with physio, is that with exercise I can delay spinal surgery, she hopes.

      Some of my muscles post THR are not as strong as they should be, although she was good enough to say, that other muscles and flexibility was amazing, for somebody who's not walking,

      I am told to keep swimming/treading water, as it must be doing me good if my muscles are any indication, could do unsupported sit up, rag doll fold up, always been able to do rag doll fold up, and put hands flat on floor, even a month before hip surgery, although not reccommended for THR patients, I think I scared her a little. She said for someone my age I am flexible, although never considered myself a flexible person.

      Pushing and pulling with legs, she said I had full strength there. Onwards and upwards, hopefully if I go through all of this physio, and then can get report to support my claim for damage done when they gave me extra length on left leg, of course going to be complicated by pre-exisitng arthiritis damage to spine.

      She seemed amazed I had no pain before my hip surgery.

    • Rocketman_SG6UK
      Rocketman_SG6UK lyn1951

      Posted

      Sounds like you are doing well there Lyn.  Well done with that progress, delaying spinal surgery has to be good news.

      Graham

    • david73016
      david73016 rose0000

      Posted

      Rose, please don't feel sorry for my wife, who looks a little like

      Kathy Bates and whose favourite film is Psycho!

      Feel sorry for me! She is threatening to make me do 10 press ups every time I do the physio exercises too slowly!

    • renee01952
      renee01952 david73016

      Posted

      Hmmmmm....do you look a little like Anthony Perkins or James Caan ??? Is there a movie script in this?  It would be awesome for all us hippies to get acknowledgeent for our "suffering"  frown

      Have you tried drinking black coffee and smoke a cigarette? worked for my sweet ex-neighbor every morning ...

      all kidding aside,it feels miserable and I hope there will be a release soon-

       

    • MichaelTN1UK
      MichaelTN1UK david73016

      Posted

      Well, as long as your wife does not make you an offer you can't refuse...

      Is this a whole new thread?

    • david73016
      david73016 MichaelTN1UK

      Posted

      She made me that offer almost 30 years ago. My wife never

      takes no for an amswer!

    • Thursday_Next
      Thursday_Next david73016

      Posted

      Chicken Korma or Chinese curry aren't enough, far too mild.  At least a madras, if not hotter, is called for (and much nicer).

      it took a few days and several tablets before I could go as well but at least after that I had no further problems.

    • Rocketman_SG6UK
      Rocketman_SG6UK MichaelTN1UK

      Posted

      It is often called  "Hunter's Stew"  it should have chunks of as many sorts of meats as you can manage.  This time we had Polish Sausage, duck, pheasant, Pork.  You should have boar or other 'exotic' meats that a good hunter would have.

      Had another bowl full tonight - yummy - no problem with my digestive system for another day.

      Graham

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