i am 8 week post op after finding out I had womb cancer .grade 1 a .i was just wondering if anyone was still having problems with there bowel at this stage after a hysterectomy.thank you for your help
5 weeks post op and mostly OK. I had extra antibiotics as a precaution so took the stuff to help me for few days. Not totally back to normal yet but not too bad.
My bowel took a while to settle after surgery, my doctor said I had IBS, but I never had it before my op. I've found that if I have weetabix with banana every day for breakfast that stops things being loose. When I'm constipated prune juice works really well for that. It got better with time too.
I had fibroids removed decades ago and still remember waiting for the bowels to get back to normal was the most memorable bit of the recovery.
This time, with the hysterectomy, I took it for granted that the bowels would take a while to get back to normal, and I was right. I think bowels dont like people chopping bits about near their territory. I suppose too, they do some shifting about to fill the extra space, which seems to affect their performance.
