11 days Post Op What's Happening To Me

Hi Clair2024 

I would definitely contact your surgeon directly . Or phone NHS 24 for your area .

I had to be careful with my mum post op on any morphine based medication as it slows her bowels right down .

I think you need your surgeon or GP to review you . I know it’s upsetting but you need thoroughly checked out .

Take care ,

Court 

Hi I'm sorry you are experiencing this. I had the same operation as you and also suffered with constipation. I feel it's as if we now think we have to be going every day. It's such early days yet and your bowels are probably still waking up. Eat white food such as chicken and mash and slowly introduce new foods to your diet.

I felt worse some days but after six weeks noticed a difference and after three months had energy I hadn't had for a long time. Pain wise I took codeine but that does make us constipated, therefore you will some extra help x 

It does take some time to find your new normal but just focus on getting better. Ask your specialist nurses for advice try to do small walks daily but don't overdo it x 

Hi Clair

Dukes A  bowel cancer, anterior resection 2017

Morphine causes constipation, Laxido has usually to be taken when on morphine....sometimes a few sachets are needed to clear the tubes. If your treatment centre has a cancer triage team give them a call, lines are normally manned 24/7

Peter

Things have gotten worse for me , my stomach pain , had me in the hospital SDEC four times , trying to figure it all out ,
After the third time i got home at 10pm and went to sleep , woke at 2am and went to the toilet i started sweating and couldnt feel my pulse ,

Thats all i remembered, my husband said i fainted 4 times , i fell on tins of paint ,and landed on my head ,
Ambulance came and said they thought id suffered a stroke as one side of my face was drooping and i was slurring my speech ,
They took me to hospital and they did an MRI on my head to check for a bleed to my brain which looked okay ,

Within hours all those symptoms had gone , and i was dischared , but they want to do another MRI to check if id suffered a stroke or not ,
my husband had no sleep , we had to go back go my original hospital for a CT scan on my stomach ,
At last they said i had an infection deep inside my belly button (where i have the biggest wound from my op) ,

They gave me antibiotics,
However , the pain is slightly better after 2 days , but im covered in big huge bruises from my fainting ,
Im now paranoid to go to the toilet or be left alone ,
Didnt want to the blood thinning injections incase they were making me worse ,
And i cant sleep properly because i cant get comfy ,
And my head still feels disoriented,

Ive had the worse 2 weeks ever , constantly up the hospital and havent feel well at all ,

I feel like i just want to get off this roller coaster xx

I'm so sorry. I know I felt so unwell for weeks. I did have an early infection but caught that soon enough. I just remember a few weeks of pain and misery and people telling me it's early days. I relied on laxido a lot at first and made the mistake of eating anything (that's what they told me)

I hope you can start to get better and things improve.