I had surgery on Tuesday & haven't had a bowl movement since Sunday. My tummy is so sore today! I've been drinking some prune juice along with my liquid diet. I've also been adding benefiber.

Did anyone else have this issue?

Yes I have that issue so I came home and used my miralax. Now I have added Metamucil to my miralax.

Generally after surgery, you are on a full liquid diet. So it is common to not have a bowel movement at the beginning. Liquids in - liquids out.

Generally after surgery, you are on a full liquid diet. So it is common to not have a bowel movement at the beginning. Liquids in - liquids out.

I thought that too, but my doctor said there should be some movement anyway.

I think you should try a stool softener, miralax is okay too. I do think metamucil is too much base on a liquid diet. Like James said, "liquid in and liquids out." Your doctor right, base on protein shake and liquids you will have some BM, but not as much. However, you will feel like you have to go #2, but believe me it will be mostly passing gas.

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Milk of magnesia

Same here. Had my surgery Wednesday and haven't BMd since Saturday. Gonna try Mirilax tomorrow. It's also due to pain killers.

I had constipation from consuming so much protein (liquids) my first few weeks post-op. What worked best for me was milk of magnesia. Call your doctor or nurse because sometimes taking laxatives, etc... might make you dehydrate since you're only consuming liquids & that's all that going to come out.


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Also start a good probiotic that helps with digestion.

When Miralax and DulcaEase didn't do a thing, I turned to Smooth Moves tea. Was the only thing that worked. I had a very miserable 17 days prior!!!

3wks post op and had the same issue. You'll move soon and colace is helping my constipation.

You also have to be careful not to use a laxative but a stool softener instead as some laxatives cause the bowel to expand and contract which they don't want to happen during the healing process..I only found that out by accident as I was going to use a laxative I'd used prior to surgery [emoji4]

My surgeon suggested miralax to take. Miralax takes time to be effective. He also suggested dulcolax suppositories if it gets really bad. Right now i am doing miralax and it takes 2-3 days to work but it creates alot of gas for me and too much rumblings in my stomach. Also if needed an enema would help also.

Milk of magnesia

My surgeon instructed his patients to do 30cc's of Milk of Magnesia every 8 hours until you have a bowel movement. He suggests this if there is no bowel movement for 4 days. I'm day 16 post-op, and still having issues, and this works like a charm after only taking it once. I'm going to include Benefiber or something as well, as suggested by my team, to increase the bulk.

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