Hey everyone, I'm new here. I had my surgery on October 8th 2018 and everything has been really awesome so far! Well except for the title of this post. Here recently it has become increasingly difficult to poop to the point there was a little bit of blood when I managed to get this one out. I feel like i've tried everything within my power to ease this. From trying to "train" myself so that I'd have a movement at the same time every day, stool softeners, and increasing water intake. I've heard that multivitamins can cause this as well as too much fiber. I drink three premier protein shakes and take a multivitamin daily (Note: I do have one solid meal a day usually a scrambled egg and either a bacon strip or sausage patty). Should I possibly change proteins to one with little or no fiber in it or maybe find a different multivitamin? If anyone is curious I'm down 66lbs from my highest weight. Like I said everything else has been amazing minus this little hiccup. If I left something out please let me know.

I just visited my surgeon's office last week for my 3 month post-op visit and they encouraged me to eat more real food as opposed to drinking protein shakes. But I like the protein shakes! They said to limit it to one a day as a meal replacement. Oh well. And oh, I'm not having any poop problems and I eat real food twice a day.