by Diamond » 24 Aug 2013, 16:47
How many days has it been since your BM?
I suffered constipation after my first surgery - weird thing is I was going to the washroom every morning so I thought I was okay. Then on day 5 I believe it was my body seized up. The pain I felt from the constipation was worse than anything I have ever encountered.
I would definitely do something about the BM sooner rather than later, because you don't want to rupture anything with hard stool. I've personally been drinking a LOT of water (10 glasses a day prob), trying to eat an apple a day, fruit smoothie with chia seed (for the fiber) in the morning. I did have what felt like constipation on day 2 and I drank prune juice which helped within a couple of hours.
Is there any packing in the wound? I have a huge wound that has to be packed daily - so a nurse looks at it every day and they will be doing measurements per week. Having gone through this before, I found that the depth of the wound would decrease by about a cm (maybe .25 inch) every week. It is important that it heals from the bottom up and the wound does not close prematurely.