TMI: My first BM

[Maloneymommy 19]

Squats potty for the win! It's amazing

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[Dub 9,922]

It had to be told! I can only now laugh about it, but not to hard...the bum!

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Cherish thy bum.

Be kind to it henceforth and forever.

No more bum punishment......unless you are kinky that way.

Seriously, very sorry you experienced this. Milk of Magnesia was what I was supposed to take as well. I was an idiot and tried to proceed with no special meds or actions.

6 days post-op.......also had a healing abdominal hernia repair........and I have been sipping Protein shakes according to schedule.

Much of this Protein bonded together in my system. The little peptides and nucleotides found each other in some type of cosmic dance......they joined.......and formed a brick like mass of protein. It became a living breathing monsta.......moving slowly and painfully towards what I knew would be an epic rectum wrecker.

Milk of Magnesia is best when when taken all along......not just on the eve of the birth of an intestinal protein monsta.....with an ab that has 9 suture sights and internal muscle stitches holding the hernia down.

That brick of protein started to make way for a painful exit sometime shortly after dawn.......then went breech. OHOHLYHELLYAGOTTABEKIDDINME!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ARGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

Extreme countermeasures were employed to get past that.

Never again.

Neva. Eva.

So sorry you had to live through this as well.

Moral of the story is indeed that an ounce of prevention will save pounds of rectum wrecking reality.

[simplejoy 2]

Ok, going through this now! I have strained so so much. MOM down the spout, just waiting now. I am so scared I have messed up the hernia repair from the straining. How would I know if I had?

[lisamstevens 53]

@@Dub, indeed .... Cherish thy bum! LOL! I woke up today and felt like I tore something from yesterday's event, hope I didn't blow a stich.

I love that we can bound over ! That's love right there.

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[4MRB4PHOTO 3,899]

Ohhhhhhh. BM meant "bowel movement". I thought you were talking about you saw your first "Bat Man" movie. Nevermind.

[EmilyJune 43]

I am so glad to shared because that was one of my biggest fears with chronic Constipation to begin with... OMG you made my day :-)

[SilentBotts 138]

Squats potty for the win! It's amazing

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Also this, I have a foot stool that has been doing this job, makes everything easier.

[CanadaLoser 80]

Constipation is the worst.

Do some of you take MOM every day to preemptively combat this issue?

[Kesha1020 32]

Omgggggggggggg...my story is worse...smh...I ended up going to ER and had to get MANUAL removel becuz it was compacted!!!!!...worse experience of my life and they still didn't get it all!!!..after enemas, warm prune juice, mom, suppositories, stool softeners and tears I finally went!!...now I take a stool softener everyday so it will never happen again...only issue I had from sugery!!!

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[Christinamo7 4,041]

@@Dub I think you should add " Cherish thy bum." to your signature line.

[165B445 188]

Yes, I will hopefully be discharged tomorrow and will ask for a script of Miralax of allowed...

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[Killian 265]

Thank you soo much for the detailed warning! I will def take stool softner and purchase a squatty potty.

Edited May 19, 2016 by Killian

[Zelda1993 3]

Haha love this!

-Surgery Date 4/29/16

[snokb04 60]

@@snokb04, thank you for that info! I will certainly be looking into that in the morning, whatever it takes to avoid that which shall never be spoken of again is worth a try!

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Just to update you Lisa. That stuff has worked wonders! I didn't even read the instructions on the bottle because the MD office attached their own instructions, but it's awesome!

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Edited May 24, 2016 by snokb04

[vhowley 7]

I am 6 days post op and was just wondering about when I might expect a BM. Will be heading to Walgreens now for some stool softeners. Thanks for the HILARIOUS, necessary and informative post!!

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