Re: bowel obstructions - Toni

From: toni welsh (twelsh1@hotmail.com)
Tue Oct 17 10:14:30 2000


At Wed, 4 Oct 2000, anonymous wrote: >
>I have had a colectomy due to diverticulitis and have a partial large
>bowel obstruction where the colon was sutured together. It has been
>only 4 months and I don't know if it
>will steadily get worse. Right now I am living with it, but bran, stool
>softners, citrucel or anything like that does not help at all. The only
>thing that helps is to get up in the morning, before drinking or eating
>anything, and drink 8 ounces of cold (from refrigerator) prune juice,
>followed by a hot drink (coffee, tea). This causes a bowel movement
>within 2 1/2 to 3 hrs. Maybe this will help you. Hope so.
>
>At Sat, 16 Oct 1999, teresa hunt wrote:
>
>>Gloria: I have taken over 150 laxatives/stoolsoftners in a 3 week period,
>>on top of citrcel, bran, and read the fiber content on almost everything I
>>eat and my bowels STILL won't move right. My GI says thats ok. He's the
>>one who told to take all that. I go to pain mgmt Wed for the first time.
>>None of my doctors will accept responsibility for the pain I am suffering
>>and ALL (4 total) agree I should go to pain mgmt but "THINK" I can work too.
>> If I don't eat the pain isn't so bad. NO diarrhea just SHORT HARD
>>PAINFULLLLL bowel movements
>>Toni: I am sorry to hear of pain and pray we are ALL better SOOON.
>>Teresa
>>
>>>From: "randy and gloria mcdonald" <rgmcdon@pacificcoast.net>
>>>Reply-To: adhesions@obgyn.net
>>>To: Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS <adhesions@talk.obgyn.net>
>>>Subject: Re: bowel obstructions - Toni
>>>Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 15:17:40 -0500
>>>
>>>Toni
>>>I would be very concerned about taking that many laxatives a day. I have
>>>been told by my dr. that if you take laxatives all the time that your
>>>bowels
>>>become too dependant on them and stop working properly by themselves. Is
>>>there a reason why you can't use bran, fibre or other more natural methods
>>>so that your bowels work properly? Why do you need to take laxatives? Is
>>>there a reason your bowels don't work properly?
>>>
>>>I think this must be awful for you.
>>>
>>>Gloria
>>>

Gloria, I have tried the prune juice thing for years, and for some reason, now it does not work, I went back to trying it again a few weeks ago, and it causes extreme gas in the bowels, and that hurts even more. But for years it worked, the gyn said that all my organs, that is what is left especially the bowels, all all stuck together, and I can feel it when I do go. You can almost picture your insides just by the way it feels. We are not stupid.

Toni


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