That is the same with me Tara, the mucous is disgusting. Don't you just love trying to explain all this. I too, have not really had a bowel movement for about a week now, I just cannot even go anymore without a laxative, and when I do go after a lax, it hurts me even more. I cannot even stand the pain after a laxative anymore, I have to take them tho to go, they have not worked in the past week tho!
They usaully do after 6-7 senkot, and the pain clinic said that is alot of senekot to take all the time. What are we supposed to do to go?
Toni
>----Original Message Follows----
>From: "Karen Kaplan" <kkaplan@eclipse.net>
>Reply-To: adhesions@obgyn.net
>To: Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS <adhesions@forum.obgyn.net>
>Subject: Re: high hopes gone>>> Toni, you have choices!
>Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 17:59:27 -0600
>
>You are right Tara, laxative dependency is a big problem.
>My PCP says stool softener is ok, and it does seem to help me more than
>laxatives.
>Prune juice is also safer than daily, longterm laxatives.
>Mylicon (infant formula) works very well for the gas.
>Aloe Vera juice is supposed to be good for bowel function, but the one time
>i tried it , 6 weeks after hyst,
>it was weird. It felt like after-shave going through me. most of it
>"tingled", felt good. But, at the one spot where the pain was worst, it
>felt like the juice hit a wound - the pain was so bad (and I was taking
>4000mg of enteric coated aspirin a day at that stage), it put me in bed for
>a day.
>And flaxseed oil (health food stores - refrigerator case) is really good for
>bowel function.
>
>Really makes you wonder what they teach in medical school.
>Best, Karen