BM after resection

[kimmidwife]

I posted this last night in Caitlyn's story but I am thinking maybe no one saw it. Have a quick question. Caitlyn had a resection from her terminal ileum to midway of the transverse colon. She never has firm stools. Sometimes partially formed but never firm. The doctor is saying now with the gastroparesis he thinks she is blocked up. We tried everything and she is passing what I call her normal stools. Is it possible she still has hard stool stuck if we never see hard stool?
Do others who have had this type of resection get hard stools or does it remain the very soft partially formed. She had her resection in 2010.

 

[my little penguin]

http://www.crohnsforum.com/showthread.php?t=34839

This is on the same topic
Typically when DS was FOS we had to do a mini clean out
With mag citrate .
Some have to have another xray to make sure the new loose stool is not ieaking around the hard stuff

 

[kimmidwife]

Thanks for the link MLP.

 

[DustyKat]

Sarah and Matt generally do not have solid bowel motions without psyllium Kim.

If Sarah sticks to a strictly vegan diet and eliminates all oils from her diet she says she does have ‘normal’ poops that ‘splash’.
I do think that over time she has had some natural take up and with what I have mentioned, and without psyllium, she may go about three times a day. The first few years post op without psyllium she was going about 6 times a day and I would say that 90% of the time it was consistently a 6 on the bristol stool chart.

With them both taking psyllium they usually go twice a day and the poop fluctuates between a 4 or a 5 on the bristol stool chart…



Unless they overdo the psyllium hard stools or constipation have never been a part of their bowel habits post op.

Dusty. xxx

 

[kimmidwife]

That chart is a big help. Caitlyn is type six normally.

 

[Willowcat05]

Jack had right hemicolectomy in oct 2013 his stools have been soft and broken up ever since he can go anything from twice a day to four or five timed depending ln what he has to eat.



Meds
Methotrexate injection
Folic acid

 

[kimmidwife]

Thanks Willowcat!