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I am a bowel queen haha.

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1. Polyethylene glycol (laxaday) really helps with softening the stool. For a lot of people this is all they need. Some take 1 tsp a day. But I recommend a full dose per instructions
2. If you can feel it in the rectum, microlax is amazing. You will have a movement within 5 minutes. It is a stimulant laxative. Sometimes I struggle with incomplete evacuation and this helps.
3. Milk of magnesia, as you mentioned above, but it takes awhile to work.
4. Bisacodyl -softener meh, but it works
5. If you are still on analgesic medication, take docusate sodium or copacetic to help.
6. Citramag- this is if you have Constipation in the small bowel
7. Sennosides at night 8-16mg. This is a stimulating laxative as well. It helps, but can cause cramping. Best to take at night.

I have been impacted before and had to manually disimpact myself.
If you are fresh from surgery, do not take stimulating laxatives.

I have been so constipated that I have had approx 10kg of stool in my system. This required an oral fleet enema.

I recommend highly PEG/laxaday. It is a powder that you add to a drink. Tasteless, works well, and does not cause cramping. I like to have it in a savoury broth or a tea. You can even add it to coffee.

Happy pooping

Has anyone had a gastric bypass revision? I have read (although not much is available) about gastric bypass revisions. I was wondering if anyone has had a RNY converted to a VSG. It would be similar to a duodenal switch procedure, but without the biliopancreatic diversion. I already have way too much malabsorption and do not want any more.
I have such severe postprandial pain and nausea, that I am developing an aversion to all food.
I see my surgeon tomorrow, but am up all night wondering/worrying about tomorrow (surgeon is great, but a bit of a meany)

I wish I knew that abdominal pain is very common after surgery. Often the cause is not diagnosed. This is a late surgery symptom. Many forums exist about abdo pain and how it lasts for months or even years.
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I also wish I knew how common low blood sugar problems would be. I have to have dextrose tabs in every room, in every purse and every car. I was not diabetic before, and am not diabetic now. But for some reason, my body puts out insulin for a 340 pound person, not a 146 pound person.
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I wish I knew that abdominal pain is very common after surgery. Often the cause is not diagnosed. This is a late surgery symptom. Many forums exist about abdo pain and how it lasts for months or even years.
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