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Things are moving, my pain in mostly upper left stomach. I'm taking dulcolax pink. I hope this is the solution and I don't have something else.

I went to ER, they did a ct scan I'm impacted with stool on colon and intestines, maybe that's where the pain is coming from. I'm trying to use enemas, dulcolax and 100% prune juice no sugar add diluted with Water. This morning I weight 121 lbs kind of scary.

I'm sorry that you are going through this, I appreciate you sharing; Is the majority of your discomfort is in your lower abdomen? Because that's where mine is and with all of my bowel issues, two bms in 14 days, I'm starting to wonder about myself. My surgeon is saying take morilax Tylenol and heating pad, take it easy (hard for me to do) but man I would like to have a bm!!

So how will they treat you?

Enemas with saline solutions, prune juice. 14 days it's a very long time

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you might want to come up with some plan to reduce the chances of this happening again. Constipation is *really* common after surgery. Try some different treatments or combos of treatments and see what works for you. Things I've heard others use (in addition to what's already been mentioned here), a shot of Miralax every day or two, magnesium citrate tablets, stool softeners (such as Colace) - I can't remember what else - but there are several. For the last three months (after having been through a couple of months of constipation hell), I've taken Benefiber twice a day, 800 mg of magnesium citrate (400 mg in the morning and 400 mg in the evening), and a dose of Miralax twice a week whether I need it or not. I haven't had a problem in three months. But my routine may not work for others - you have to experiment and see what does the trick for you.

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I've been taking mirilax every morning and milk of magnesia (the tablets) and am now going every other day; my belly is much happier!! :)

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