Hey NG,
I took the vicodin last night and slept a lot better. I'm trying not to take it in the day time because I did notice harder bms after surgery but I will take the ibuprofen during the day. I guess I stopped too early.
I'm going to take a lot of baths and hopefully get the spasms to settle down enough to have a complete bm. I have been taking 5 colace and 1tsp of MOM. I'm worried I may get constipated as long as it takes to get just a small amount of stool to come out. It's soft but just not much coming out when I go. This really freaked me out because I had the same problem many times before lis when I'd tear.
I know it's looser down there because gas is silent and when I did have a full bm the day after surgery, it was much bigger than I've ever had before.
I know you're right, it's too early and I need to be patient. I just remembered the crs telling me the spasms would be gone immediately and that freaked me out.