Re: How are you responses

[Guest guest]

> Kaylene wrote:

> When I worked in a nursing home when one patient would greet another with how

are you the other would say things like " my bowels haven't been moving. " I was

mortified. Please shoot me if I ever do that!

Kaylene,

Having had a bowel impaction, I can relate and I will probably be one of the

patients stating, Well, my enema worked. Bennie

[Guest guest]

No surgery schedule. X-ray and CTt showed calcifications in the bowel and

impaction. I'm living on stool softener and Miralax and passing stinky water.

Massive leakage. The doctor thinks that I also have rectal prolapse. Very

frustrating. Have IBS, too.

Lori

Jennette wrote:

A blockage is an emergency. You should have surgery now. Severe

constipation/impaction can sometimes be relieved with enema / laxatives.

When is your surgery scheduled?

[Guest guest]

Gosh that is so terrible. I do not know much about calcifications but I do know

what IBS is like. Have you been taking any opioid pain medications for pain

before all this started? Do you take laxative? I take a stool softner and

laxative to keep my bowel moving. Tried the Miralax and all that did was fill

me up with goopy poo. I actually gained 8 pounds in 4 days. It may have made

my stool soft but it did not do a darn thing to help my colon move it out. I

also began to have swelling in my legs and hands and additional pain because of

it.

Doctors think Miralax is something special but it is nothing but glorified

plastic that draws water and swells so once it is in your intestines all mixed

up in the small intestine your poo cannot harden.

I would be demanding something be done. You deserve to get this resolved before

a bowel ruptures or you have damage to the bowel that your body can't repair.

Get another gastroenterologist's opinion if the one you have is not helping you.

If you have insurance, call and speak to one of the nurses or case managers to

let them know what is going on.

Jennette

> Lori wrote:

No surgery schedule. X-ray and CTt showed calcifications in the bowel and

impaction. I'm living on stool softener and Miralax and passing stinky water.

Massive leakage. The doctor thinks that I also have rectal prolapse. Very

frustrating. Have IBS, too.

Lori