I’ve had very dark green almost black very sticky bowel movements since my surgery on Nov 17

Talked to surgeon yesterday he said sounds like old blood from surgery and didn’t seemed to be concerned. I asked him when should I be concerned and he said if it doesn’t clear up by one more week.

Anybody else have this issue? How long did yours last?

I had weird-colored BM's for the first month or so - then normal ever since. I've heard this before, so I don't think it's uncommon during the first few weeks.

I would have been happy to get rid of the old blood in my system that way... I vomited the old blood up and it was VERY painful! The gas pain was a walk in the park by comparison. If the surgeons office isn't concerned they probably see it happen frequently (they weren't concerned about the vomiting blood either because apparently is normal with my surgery but nobody thought to warn me -_-")

Are you taking iron supplements? Iron makes the stool dark green and sticky.

On 12/02/2020 at 15:50, Elidh said:

Are you taking Iron supplements? Iron makes the stool dark green and sticky.

There’s iron in my bariatric multi vitamin

I'd say not to worry about it unless it keep happening after another week. Like others said, sometimes the vitamins discolor our stool as well, especially iron.

im 3 days in from my surgery and was wondering did anyone have trouble with BM and what did you do?

On 12/05/2020 at 09:20, dream71660 said:

im 3 days in from my surgery and was wondering did anyone have trouble with BM and what did you do?

I’m still having the issue. Will wait until We’d to call back my surgeon

My nurse told me to take milk of magnesia 2-3 times a week to have bowel movements. I take it 2 days a week.