Prepped for surgery a few days before by using colace. 2 in morning. 2 at night. This was a must and helped keep my stool soft. Feb 14. Took 2 colace and off to hospital for 6 am surgery. Surgery stuff was routine and I was in recovery by 8 am. Doc said fissure was healed and he removed the 2 tags. I was reluctant to take narcotics because that is why I am here in first place. So after I just started on 800 ibuprofens. I was home by 10 am feeling great. Then at 4 pm the feeling that I had to poop came on. I sat on toilet and pushed a liitle and had a decent BM with no blood. I we t and sat in tub right after and after that all hell broke loose. I have never ever experienced pain like this. I was sweating crying and moaning for the next two hours. Took my first Vicodin. Nothing helped. About 7 pm I tried too pee and I couldn't. The pain from my bladder coupled with the pain in my ass was unbearable. I wish i never did it. My husband called ER and they advised me to come in because of my not peeing. Well I arrived at ER and they immediately took me in and scanned my bladder and said oh my you are full. I was crying in pain and the nurse came in with a catheter. I have never had a catheter before so this made me more upset. The ER doc wanted me to stay the night. I was brought up to my room and they pumped me up on morphine but it wasn't helping. I was soooo miserable. The next morning my CRS came to see me and he was surprised that I was here. Bladder issues usually only happen to males. We needed to come up with a pain management plan because nothing was working, i still had catheter in and I was crying all day. He decided on intravenous Toradol. This is an intravenous only potent anti inflammatory. It worked in 5 minutes and I felt like a new person. It's now 4 pm and I went to bed and could not get another Toradol until 6 hours. When this stuff wore off it was like I was back to beginning. Pain was unbearable and I wish I never did it. I wasn't eating because I didn't want to poop. I hadn't showered, I had the cath in still. It was all awful. Next morning CRS visited and wanted me to eat a little and try to poop and we needed to make plans to take cath out. I couldn't go home until I peed. I had to get off Toradol too because I couldn't go home with it. He wanted me to try percoset. His biggest advice and he kept saying over and over Don't Get Constipated. You think this is bad. That will be a million times worse. I was pumping up on stool softeners and had some high fiber cereal and loads of water. I mean loads of it. I had the cath in so why not take advantage. More to come...... (I am still wishing I didn't do this)