I am three weeks out from the surgery. My doctor advanced me to soft foods after one week and I've slowly been adding more and more (approved soft foods) to my diet. I got tired of water so I switched to watermelon water and started having horrendous diarrhea.

Well I emailed my team at the hospital and they told me to stop the watermelon water, so I did. Everything was fine until today when I realized I haven't pooped IN SIX DAYS.

So what are some safe stool softeners?

Thank you!

I have had this issue pretty much from the start and have to keep on top of it. I'm not sure where you are but the first advice I had was to try prune juice and benefibre. Now I have sachets of Movicol ingredient is macrogrol you may have similar and also old fashioned lactulose syrup. They really work but the first time after 7 days I went in and had an enema because it was impacted further in. I didn't even feel like I had to go. Funny about the watermelon drink. I had Diet-lite lemon cordial all day the other day as a change from protein water and it gave me diarreah the next day. I was thinking I might still have one once or twice a week if it's going to help get the bowel moving

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I am three weeks out from the surgery. My doctor advanced me to soft foods after one week and I've slowly been adding more and more (approved soft foods) to my diet. I got tired of water so I switched to watermelon water and started having horrendous diarrhea.
Well I emailed my team at the hospital and they told me to stop the watermelon water, so I did. Everything was fine until today when I realized I haven't pooped IN SIX DAYS.
So what are some safe stool softeners?
Thank you!

The constipation issues are very real for us, I use murilax every other day & I also take milk of magnesia once a week (you can get them both at Wal-Mart over the counter). This has kept me on track plus constipation will interfere with your weight loss[emoji41]

HW: 247 VSG:6/1/17 CW:186(11/04/17) GW:185?

On 11/1/2017 at 4:15 PM, awheezy13 said:

I am three weeks out from the surgery. My doctor advanced me to soft foods after one week and I've slowly been adding more and more (approved soft foods) to my diet. I got tired of Water so I switched to watermelon water and started having horrendous diarrhea.

Well I emailed my team at the hospital and they told me to stop the watermelon water, so I did. Everything was fine until today when I realized I haven't pooped IN SIX DAYS.

So what are some safe stool softeners?

Thank you!

What is watermelon water? Not sure I've heard of it?