by Rallire » 05 Mar 2012, 17:37
How very odd, I came here today to post about this very issue after earlier after work (and holding it in for age) had the first pain free BM in 3 weeks. It was for lack of a better word, large. I recently started eating more and more fibre and taking supplements too, but I was expecting to be ripped asunder. I’m starting to think that it’s more the process than the end consistency of the stool. I’ve been chewing everything so much my jaw aches a bit, chugging water and eating lots of fruit and fiber, I’d have though I’d have been in agony but nothing, It’s the opposite of what common wisdom would think.
I’ve also been recently wondering if a lot of the stinging / itching symptoms may be caused by contamination in the wound, mainly not helped by us all making sure our stools have the consistency closest to toothpaste. As soon as I changed to high fibre including insoluble my stools became much larger, and with (not really a nice way to put this) less runny texture there was nothing to get into the wound as easy and I went from having to lie in bed for a few hours to being able to sit down at work for 8 hours In less than a week!
I’d say there’s something to bulking up the size and trying to get used to it once you’ve started to heal, defiantly. If you hope to ever have a normal diet you’ll have to face it at some point. Though depending on how far along you are healing it could cause a lot of pain if its still very painful to pass anything, unless I’m right about the consistency, I which case irritation could bring on spazams causing more problems and giving people a thought of pain which then triggers the muscles to clench even more. But this is all conjecture, it’s impossible to do research on such things, which is why I’m uncommonly open about such thing trying to find others experiences and come to some form of conclusion to aid in recovery.
I will say something definate though, you should never have to strain, even with AF, if it's not coming out of its own volition then you need to change something in your diet/habbits.