Hi Everyone!
A little back up info- My Fiance was diagnosed in October of last year.....put on 40 mg pred taper with 6MP. In December we ended up in the ER and stayed in the hospital for a week. He has multiple abscesses, fistula, and a stricture in the terminal illium. We were sent home with a JP drain to drain the abscess and surgery was scheduled a little further out to give time for the inflammation to go down. Stopped the 6MP after hospital and continued 15 mg pred and cipro.
OK- His surgery is scheduled for tomorrow. We did pre-care yesterday. The surgery will be exploratory....best case scenario is a resection, worst case illeostomy (sp?)
My question is this. We were given bowel cleansing instructions for today as follows: liquid diet all day today, 1:00 PM take 4 Ducolax tablets with 2 glasses of water, 3:00 PM mix a 238gm bottle of Miralax with 64 oz Gatorade and drink 8 oz every 15 minutes until gone. It is now 7:30 PM. He has used the bathroom once, and it was a fairly regular BM. He also feels pressue in his stomach, like he can feel all of the liquid he's been drinking....similar to how it feels when he starts to have "contractions" (what he calls them) from a blockage.
Should we be concerned? We were expecting this to be similar to the prep he had to do prior to his colonoscopy where he was pretty much chained to the toilet and exxpelling green water there towards the end (sorry)
Also, he did have 3 BM's this morning before starting the cleanse...
We're fairly new to all of this and are afraid of them pushing back the surgery....it's been craazy stressful for both of us (him especially)
This all happened so quickly after he was diagnosed, it's been such a roller coaster and now we've made all kind of arrangements for the next 10 days while we'll be in the hospital and really he just wants to have this surgery and be DONE!
What do you guys think? Is there a delay with these laxatives? Could we have done something wrong?
Thank you in advance!!
A little back up info- My Fiance was diagnosed in October of last year.....put on 40 mg pred taper with 6MP. In December we ended up in the ER and stayed in the hospital for a week. He has multiple abscesses, fistula, and a stricture in the terminal illium. We were sent home with a JP drain to drain the abscess and surgery was scheduled a little further out to give time for the inflammation to go down. Stopped the 6MP after hospital and continued 15 mg pred and cipro.
OK- His surgery is scheduled for tomorrow. We did pre-care yesterday. The surgery will be exploratory....best case scenario is a resection, worst case illeostomy (sp?)
My question is this. We were given bowel cleansing instructions for today as follows: liquid diet all day today, 1:00 PM take 4 Ducolax tablets with 2 glasses of water, 3:00 PM mix a 238gm bottle of Miralax with 64 oz Gatorade and drink 8 oz every 15 minutes until gone. It is now 7:30 PM. He has used the bathroom once, and it was a fairly regular BM. He also feels pressue in his stomach, like he can feel all of the liquid he's been drinking....similar to how it feels when he starts to have "contractions" (what he calls them) from a blockage.
Should we be concerned? We were expecting this to be similar to the prep he had to do prior to his colonoscopy where he was pretty much chained to the toilet and exxpelling green water there towards the end (sorry)
Also, he did have 3 BM's this morning before starting the cleanse...
We're fairly new to all of this and are afraid of them pushing back the surgery....it's been craazy stressful for both of us (him especially)
This all happened so quickly after he was diagnosed, it's been such a roller coaster and now we've made all kind of arrangements for the next 10 days while we'll be in the hospital and really he just wants to have this surgery and be DONE!
What do you guys think? Is there a delay with these laxatives? Could we have done something wrong?
Thank you in advance!!
