ButtQueen wrote:How are you doing ThroughRecovery? Hope your first BM was fine...
Thanks for checking on me.
I had a outpatient surgery scheduled to get rid of the impaction under general anesthesia, my surgeon told me it was going to set my surgery back to square one and he wouldn't be able to get all of the fecal matter out. I went home, kissed my wife and went to the bathroom.(this was two days ago, on the 6th) I felt barely any pain while I was manually disimpacting what was stuck. I took a couple stool softeners and drank a disgusting bottle of Magnesium Citrate the day before. The Magnesium Citrate definitely softened things up way more than I thought they would. The drink also made anything hard to swallow. I tried to take my Hydrocodone but I just immediately threw up when it hit my tongue. I was having an adrenaline rush like do or die and got through it. I hopped in the bath tub immediately after, then had some diarrhea about five times that night and just continuously drank water. I decided i'm going to live through the pain now and not take any pain killers besides Advil to make sure this wouldn't happen again. I haven't taken a pain killer since, I take 400mg of Advil in the morning, 400mg when I get home from work after my BM. My quality of life went from maybe a 3 to about an 8 now. I am super excited because I didn't mess anything up. I just got done with a kind of hard BM but the pain wasn't that bad.
Can someone tell me their regimen? I need very soft BM's while i'm healing up from the stitches of the hemorrhoid removal and also the single stich at the end of my fissure to keep the bleeding down, that's where all of the pain comes from I don't really feel the fissure that much anymore. I am taking 100mg Colace docusate sodium, no stimulant now and i'm not sure if I want a stimulant one because things are consistently moving now. I haven't tried Miralax but thinking about it. What do you guys think?
Another thing is that this leakage of pink/brown fluid is disgusting and if anyone wear boxers like me, what I do is take two Kotex panty liners and cut one side off of one and overlap to make one big liner, it helps so much and keeps my boxers clean and my butt dry. Another word of advice, after you have an LIS, get off painkillers as soon as possible because they can ruin everything if not taken with tons and tons of water and some stool softeners.