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Stool softener day before?

Is it a good idea to take a stool softener or gentle laxative the day before surgery since some complain of constipation after surgery?

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    I took one two days before. The last day was fluids anyway so I wasn't worried. Two months previous I had another major surgery and had the worse constipation ever afterwards. I wasn't going through that again.

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    I know what you mean. I had two total knee replacements and the constipation was like concrete. Then they give you milk of magnesia, and you explode for 2 days! Probably TMI, sorry.

    I just want to avoid that if I can.

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    I had the diarrhea from the liquid diet. The day of surgery I still had it, on the day of discharge the surgeon recommended Mirlax, I took it until things got going and now I take it every 4days and I am having a BM every day without problems.

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