My husband is three weeks post-op and has been at home for 10 days. At first all went well and his digestive system was behaving pretty normally, but he's had a problem these last few days. Yesterday and the day before, around 4pm, he's had to dash to the loo. He'd had a different lunch each day and the only common factor on both days seemed to be this occurring about an hour after having an Altraplen energy drink (prescribed by his GP).
Thinking maybe a whole one was too much for his system to handle, this morning he had just half a drink, but there was a similar outcome. He'd only had porridge for breakfast, which he has every day.
It has been extremely hot lately, which he's struggled with (and he's not been sleeping well) but it's considerably cooler today so we think maybe that wasn't a factor - it had been hot for several days before this problem arose. Could it be the drinks causing this? Prior to getting Altraplen from the GP he's been having Complan every day, since he started losing weight during chemo, and he was fine with that.
This has been a bit of a setback when he seemed to be doing so well. Any thoughts or advice will be gratefully received.
