Re: chocoholic - did myself in!
From: Dawn (dawn@naisp.net)
Thu Dec 26 05:31:06 2002
Dear Heather,
Yes you can do damage if you strain too hard while trying. Give
yourself 20 min. of gentle pushing, then try again later I know the
urge can be hard to ignore but take plenty of water and whatever your
doc advises for this situation. Ask about fiber, low residue diet,
enema or laxitive.
You can end up with terrible hemmeroids which make subsiquent BM's
painful all the way to vascular damage from straining too hard.
I can't stress enough how important it is to drink as much water as
possible. I sometimes have luck with a big ol cup o' joe in the A.M.
too.
Love ya,
Dawn
At Tue, 24 Dec 2002, Heather wrote:
>
>Hi - This is the one who was afraid to eat!! Well yesterday we had our
>big Holiday Party at work with chocolate everywhere!! I couldn't resist
>and gorged on Chocolate - and that's about all I ate for the day. So...
>not only did I give myself a chocolate migrane, I was constipated to
>boot. So I forced myself to have a bowel movement this morning and I
>pushed for like 30 minutes determined to have a BM, which I did. But
>now I have quite a bit of pain. Do you think I may have hurt myself?
>Can anyone relate? I would appreciate any feedback. Thank you. Heather
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I'm no doctor, just a fellow sufferer like you but I hope you consider me a new friend.