Week three post op rectocele repair, anoplasty, and sphincteroplasty back stiffness & constipation

Okay ladies, in an effort to rid myself of this anxiety, I need a few suggestions please. If I am off all of the pain meds, as I have been for at least four to five days now, and am trying the ibuprophen and Tylenol alternative then why am I still experiencing stiffness in my back and pelvis? I have tried to gradually increase activity and decrease couch (sitting) time and bed time helping with shopping , dishes, walking laps around the house, going to get the mail at the end of the drive, and using the clock numbers as reference for slight stretching of my pelvis. I am on a mirilax and docusate sodium daily regimen in addition to at least two doses a day of three ibuprophen and get concerned about taking a lot in a day so when the pain is at its worst like the past four days I will take a dose of two Tylenol a day. The pain really started to worry me because I am deathly afraid I blew out the stitching and ruined my two weeks of progress after a very fast moving , severely cramp inducing, shakingly painful, large in amount bowel movement after this is when the other pain set in, the one that radiates down my right leg from my back /pelvis. I'm scared I am anxious and it feels like something is rubbing against my coccyx when I go or even when I am sitting. I can't stand hour long car rides in low sitting vehicles I just realized. Tommorow I am going in to get checked out by my surgeons nurse and I'll be really sad if I messed something up because I got anxiety over this recovery process. Can you offer any helpful advice? I did make the mistake of probably having a beer to soon the other day and one day I had a margarita and automatically felt so bad for even drinking part of either I decided to stop out of pure fear. Could that ruin my progress ?

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