going to the restroom

[nanlt124]

just an odd question my mother is 10 days post op and hasnt had a bowel movement any input thanks

[deheisel11]

Quite a few of the pain meds will cause the block up.  I was given stool softeners after my surgery which helped quite a lot.  My wife had another type of surgery with pain meds and they did not tell her that she might have bowel problems.  She had a very difficult time.  Call you doctor immediately and tell them the situation.

[moe]

I agree, talk to your doc.
Being a nurse, ask her if she is passing gas, and feel her lower abdomen to see if it feels harder than the rest of the abdomen. If it's soft and she's feeling the gurgling, it is just a matter of giving her the correct amount of stool softener/laxative/prunes/prune juice and whatever, and letting nature takes it's course.

I too was one of those who didn't "poo" for a long time and was on lots of vicodin/percocet for my bad bad bad headache. I knew the side effects of the narcotics and just kept downing the colace, prunes,prune juice, hot tea, graduating to MOM and well you don't want to know the details

So she also may need a gentle suppository (glycerin) to get things going or even a ducalox suppos. But CALL your doctor!
I hope everything" comes out" all right. (Humor is one of the best medicines, BTW)

Let us know how everything "works out"
Maureen

funny for the day.
Q- How does a mathematician cure constipation?
A- He gets a pencil and works it out (or something like that.)

[leapyrtwins]

Not an odd question at all.

I wasn't able to leave the hospital until I'd had a bowel movement.  My doc has patients take a stool softener post op.

Jan

[Jim Scott]

Dave ~

Not really an odd question because constipation is a common occurrence for post-op AN patients.  As the previous posts indicate, post-op BMs can be problematic due to the meds and the change in ones eating/digesting routine.  I won't presume to speak for your mom's doctor but he may well advise that she employ the ever-popular stool softener to, (ahem) help move things along, as it were. 

Jim

[Funnydream]

I was having issues with it all. The threat of putting a catheter back up in me gave me tons motivation to number 1. I wanted to cheer when I was able to give them the sample they wanted. lol. I did have air in my bladder for about 3 weeks after surgery but seams to have cleared up.

I was in the hospital 2 1/2 weeks and only did a number 2 one time. And that's after I was under the threat of a nurse putting something up my exit only area. If you know what I mean. So I worked it really hard for about a hour to avoid the nurse being were I didn't want her to be.

I'm about 10 days out of the hospital right now. And I would say my number 1 is back to normal. But my number 2 is still not the same. But I understand the pain meds I'm still taken do that to people.

Hope my post helps.

[Lizard]

Stool softeners and warm prune juice help, I remember cheering from the bathroom everytime I had a BM, it was too funny.  My husband also had to help me on and off the toilet so I think the cheering became my little alarm for him that I was ready to be lifted and returned to my couch...hee hee hee!
Hope #2 comes soon!
Liz