ijustwantmybuttback wrote:Are you pushing during BMs too, or still walking on eggshells in the bathroom?
At 11 weeks post LIS I'm not pushing, and I only have a
little dread of going to the bathroom.
About pushing: I really try not to. Besides all the diet/lifestyle stuff you know about, for pooing my PT recommended the "big belly, hard belly" technique (see here
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/ ... 0057bb1fea), and it's been working for me.
I have to say the bleeding months after the surgery was a mental challenge for me. From a purely objective viewpoint, my life at 8 weeks post LIS was infinitely better than 8 weeks pre LIS. Pain was like 1/10 of what it was before. I was starting to do normal things and getting my fitness back. So the blood was not painful, but
worrying. Was the horror going to return?
One thing that helped me in weeks 8-11 post LIS was getting into a pattern where I took my daily 1-hr bath really early in the morning. I found if I could get the bath in
before I defecated, I was less likely to see blood in the feces. Maybe it helped relax any healing tissues? I dunno. But by 11 weeks I found I had no blood in my stool even if the poo happened before the bath.
Now I'm at 12 weeks post LIS. I had to take a plane trip over the weekend, which involved 5 hrs of sitting two times. It wasn't comfortable, but I survived and didn't bleed.
HTH!