How many days did it take for you to have your first bowel movement after surgery?! On day four and nothing yet.

about a week - and that's pretty common. There's not much in there yet. You might want to start taking stool softeners because that first one post-surgery can be a doozy.

I went on day 2 and it hurt like the dickens!! Then last week turns out I had a small bowel obstruction and that caused some constipation that I didn’t know was happening because I thought the way I felt was supposed to be normal. Now I’m having to take Miralax 3x/day until my post op follow up appointment. Hopefully all is still good and I won’t have to keep taking stool softeners.

3 days. My doc had me on Milk of Magnesium nightly until I had one (basically every day I took Oxy) and recommended I use a Fleet enema if I couldn't go on Day 3.

On 10/15/2023 at 15:12, Akdub27 said:

I went on day 2 and it hurt like the dickens!! Then last week turns out I had a small bowel obstruction and that caused some Constipation that I didn’t know was happening because I thought the way I felt was supposed to be normal. Now I’m having to take Miralax 3x/day until my post op follow up appointment. Hopefully all is still good and I won’t have to keep taking stool softeners.

Glad you’re doing good now.

Day three I had diarrhoea - single event, dark, smelly occurred without warning. Then it was another couple of days I think. Initially I only went about every two day but if I went for three days I’d take a stool softener to keep on top of it. From purées I think I added a soluble fibre.

Don’t be surprised if you only go every couple of days for the first couple of months & what you pass is much smaller than what you’re used to. You’re not eating much to excrete. Also at the moment the strong opioid pain meds will can make you constipated too.

On 10/15/2023 at 15:12, Akdub27 said:

I went on day 2 and it hurt like the dickens!! Then last week turns out I had a small bowel obstruction and that caused some Constipation that I didn’t know was happening because I thought the way I felt was supposed to be normal. Now I’m having to take Miralax 3x/day until my post op follow up appointment. Hopefully all is still good and I won’t have to keep taking stool softeners.

Finally went this morning and I feel you pain, literally lol