**TMI alert***

Guys, this is super embarrassing but I need to know. I am at day 7 and while constipated for the past few days, today I've been dealing with impacted fecal matter that will not say bye. For a play by play, there have been 7 rounds and it's currently 7 feces - 0 me.

The surgeon has told me to to take dulcolax to try to fight it, but it's been 7 hours, and I have gone a few times only to have some spurts of loose motion, but the impacted matter is killing me and not exiting.

Did anyone else experience this? Or similar. I was feeling so much better but the flexing of my core during the episodes have left me very lower energy.

Best,

Sanju

They sell it at bed bath and beyond...as always look for their 20% off coupon

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I bought mine after the fact, and wish it was before. I had problems in the past when I switched to completely healthy eating. So I knew going in it was going to be an issue.

@Sanju I did pray and do a little tribute on your behalf. LOL I am glad you were able to find some relief.

Guys you don't have to buy it, you can use any step stool you have at home

Love your name, of course, and you are correct, you don't have to buy one. But the squatty potty has the curve where it can go around the pedestal of the toilet, so I leave my there and don't worry with the moving it to and from (space saver), and my issue is ongoing so I use it frequently. But again if you have a step stool and want to use that, then by all means.

http://www.squattypotty.com

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Oh I saw this on Shark Tank, so it really works?

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It's the protein that causes constipation. Take citrate liquid the one you took before surgery. Don't let it get to that point were you suffer. I have been there and it's horrible.

Love my squatty potty!!!

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This happened to me on my 2 week post op (I'm 4 weeks post op)

Worst experience of my life, so I diffenitely sympathize with you. There was nothing that worked for me. I used stool softener, miralax, milk meg and last a enema.

Thank God I had help removing this impacted... please go to the er if you haven't released. Last thing anyone needs is a bowel obstruction or something happening to your sleeve..

Coffee has been my solution after..still a scary thought I never want to experience again

@@thinnerS - Protein alone, didn't cause mine, it was a combination of Iron supplements and the new menu for food in general. I am a veggie eater and I still miss that help with the vegetables.

@@KristyVSG - Coffee!!! me too!

This is good information. I have irritable bowel, so I have issues with this without adding even more causes. I'll be visiting a BB&B this weekend.

not to be gross but.....im a girl so i think we're used to doing these types of things but.....i've actually reached up in there with a finger and hooked it out. it's like hard little balls. i know it's gross but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. i haven't had problems since then lol.

@@sanjumelts Did they prescribe Colace? Also, go with Miralax. I experienced this problem too, however, I didn't put forward quite the effort you are describing. I just figured it was par for the course.

I just bought one. 5 months of constipation, bleeding and hemorrhoids is about to kill me!!!

Magnesium Citrate purchased over the counter at Walmart and most pharmacies. Drink half the bottle slowly, and you will have results. I was constipated and an enema and suppositories didn't work. So my Dr. recommended the Mag. Citrate. It comes in Cherry flavor and isn't too bad. But I was looking for results and didn't care about taste. Good luck!

It's not just the protein it's also the pain meds that can cause it and we all got a healing dose of that stuff when we had anesthesia.

I'm 3+ months out and I still have bouts of this painful situation. Far from the taking any opioids period. I've been tempted to eat a Big Mac to clean the pipes (calm down I'm just kidding). Truly this was one new thing I wasn't expecting to experience.

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