Re: Constipation - Anesthesia

[Guest guest]

I completely agree . anesthesia slows down the processes

extremely badly. One of my closest friends had knee surgery and

literally was constipated for over a week.

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> >ok maybe I'll try this before the capsules..

> >at this point (since last nite)... I've had 2 ic31 capsules, 4

> >spoons of blackstrap molasses, a cup of dandelion/nettle tea, a

> >second cup (later) with dandelion and cornsilk, a mango, a

couple

> >glasses of water...and a half glass of green smoothie with some

> >olive oil. oh and a plant enzyme this morning... Still got pain

it

> >shifts from front to back. Applied some heat.. don't have any

> >flannel on hand (got the castor oil).. THIS SUCKS... (sorry)...

> >now I know what you all complain about with constipation... like

I

> >said I had a small bm this morning.. softer... but nothing since..

> >suzi

>

[Guest guest]

But we're on 3 wks... and I am going some..... with all I've done, I'm beginning t think this may not be constipation... going to do some research... and with all the water and juices I'm dr;inking doubtful it's dehydration... I am peeing alot. Suzi Anne <sarahlovell@...> wrote: I completely agree . anesthesia slows down the processes extremely badly. One of my closest friends had knee surgery and literally was constipated for over a week. > > You would be amazed to know just how general anesthesia slows down > the bowel processes, too. That could be a lot of your > problem. Could you also be dehydrated?

Everyone is raving about the all-new beta.

[Guest guest]

" chew' your water too. Sometimes we drink and drink, but the body

doesn't absorb it. Swishing it in your mouth helps it go down with

your body's own enzymes etc.

the reason I suggested nerves too, is because it's going on 3

weeks..that's all.

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> > You would be amazed to know just how general anesthesia slows

down

> > the bowel processes, too. That could be a lot of your

> > problem. Could you also be dehydrated?

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> Everyone is raving about the all-new beta.

>

[Guest guest]

Suzi -

When I had my second child, I had an emergency C-section. I was in

ICU for 3-4 days, was in the hospital for 3 weeks. During that time

I was hooked up to 4 IV's and numerous drugs, including narcotics. I

never did have a bowel movement after the surgery but before I went

home from the hospital. I was home for about 3 days when suddenly I

couldn't stand up, the stomach pain was so bad. It radiated from one

side to the other and across my back and I felt bad, bad, bad. My

mom, who is a nurse, had come home with me and when she found out I

was having the stomach pain and hadn't had a bowel movement since the

surgery she went ballistic, LOL. (The nurses I had were very remiss

in not making sure I had bowel movements before letting me go)

Mom gave me my choice of drinking Milk of Magnesia or taking a

Correctol laxative. I opted for the Correctol and took one or two

that evening, was up and down all night from the pain but by the

morning I had a bowel movement and the pain disappeared, never to

return, thank goodness. A couple of years after that episode I had

surgery under general anesthesia for a hernia repair and I didn't

poop for another 3 weeks after that, and I didn't have near the drugs

that time as I had before. General anesthesia affects me so badly

that 4 or 5 weeks after the hernia surgery, I had an appt. with my

eye doctor for an eye test. He stopped the eye test in the middle

and forced me to go, immediately, right at that moment, to my doctor

because of the irregularities he was seeing in the back of my

eye. He thought I had a raging case of diabetes that was going to

send me into a coma, but it turned out to be nothing more than the

side effects of the anesthesia.

General anesthesia does bad things to the body, as I saw my mom go

through almost the same thing I did when she had knee surgery about 5

years ago.

You might try the Milk of Magnesia - I had forgotten that until I

started to type.

Good luck -

At 04:02 PM 2/15/2007, you wrote:

>But we're on 3 wks... and I am going some..... with all I've done,

>I'm beginning t think this may not be constipation... going to do

>some research... and with all the water and juices I'm dr;inking

>doubtful it's dehydration... I am peeing alot.

>Suzi