Re: pressing question

From: Wally (wallamara@hotmail.com)
Wed Sep 5 06:34:13 2001

At Sun, 2 Sep 2001, Rosie wrote: >
>Hi! A little play on words there, but I have a question ...... I notice a
>lot of posts about constipation and bowel obstructions. I had my
>Hysterectomy 2 years ago and just recently have been having rectal pain and
>my stools (I hate that word - so gross) have changed in appearance over the
>past month or more and look flat - like they are pressed. I'm just wondering
>if this is almost always what happens with a blockage caused by adhesions.

Hi Rosie, I have experienced flat pressed looking stools too. I had a colonoscopy & from "inside" my bowel looked fine. I know that my bowel was "caught up" in five different places prior to my last surgery in April (I read it on the surgery report). I have noticed that this shape seems to occur if I haven't had a bowel movement for a few days. I have also noticed the increase in pain at this time too.

When I described this to my doctor, he just raised his eyebrows & really didn't respond apart from telling me that I was "fine" as far as he could see from the colonoscopy. I hope you are able to get more information from your doctor, than I got from mine.

Best of luck to you....

Love, hugs & cheers

Jo 

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