awheezy13 4 Posted November 1, 2017 I am three weeks out from the surgery. My doctor advanced me to soft foods after one week and I've slowly been adding more and more (approved soft foods) to my diet. I got tired of Water so I switched to watermelon water and started having horrendous diarrhea. Well I emailed my team at the hospital and they told me to stop the watermelon water, so I did. Everything was fine until today when I realized I haven't pooped IN SIX DAYS. So what are some safe stool softeners? Thank you! 2 Meguone and Dametris reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GwennyPenny 108 Posted November 1, 2017 I have had this issue pretty much from the start and have to keep on top of it. I'm not sure where you are but the first advice I had was to try prune juice and benefibre. Now I have sachets of Movicol ingredient is macrogrol you may have similar and also old fashioned lactulose Syrup. They really work but the first time after 7 days I went in and had an enema because it was impacted further in. I didn't even feel like I had to go. Funny about the watermelon drink. I had Diet-lite lemon cordial all day the other day as a change from Protein Water and it gave me diarreah the next day. I was thinking I might still have one once or twice a week if it's going to help get the bowel moving Sent from my CPH1607 using BariatricPal mobile app Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dametris 110 Posted November 5, 2017 I am three weeks out from the surgery. My doctor advanced me to soft foods after one week and I've slowly been adding more and more (approved soft foods) to my diet. I got tired of Water so I switched to watermelon water and started having horrendous diarrhea. Well I emailed my team at the hospital and they told me to stop the watermelon water, so I did. Everything was fine until today when I realized I haven't pooped IN SIX DAYS. So what are some safe stool softeners? Thank you!The Constipation issues are very real for us, I use murilax every other day & I also take milk of magnesia once a week (you can get them both at Wal-Mart over the counter). This has kept me on track plus constipation will interfere with your weight loss[emoji41]HW: 247 VSG:6/1/17 CW:186(11/04/17) GW:185🙄 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Meguone 72 Posted November 5, 2017 On 11/1/2017 at 4:15 PM, awheezy13 said: I am three weeks out from the surgery. My doctor advanced me to soft foods after one week and I've slowly been adding more and more (approved soft foods) to my diet. I got tired of Water so I switched to watermelon Water and started having horrendous diarrhea. Well I emailed my team at the hospital and they told me to stop the watermelon water, so I did. Everything was fine until today when I realized I haven't pooped IN SIX DAYS. So what are some safe stool softeners? Thank you! What is watermelon water? Not sure I've heard of it? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
