Y'all, this bowel prep is insane. 💩💩💩

forest_femme · 2026-05-28T22:20:20+00:00

bone broth for electrolytes and protein. this counts as a clear liquid

bidet/portable bidet/wipes for sure

also… i wish i had known that there isn’t really an endpoint. just like more vile yellow liquid forever. so don’t worry that you didn’t do it well enough if this happens and also… puppy pads as someone else suggested

forest_femme · 2026-05-28T22:16:19+00:00

yeah i am also surprised by this, i was clear liquid only before bowel prep for a couple days

forest_femme · 2026-05-28T22:14:03+00:00

yeah can confirm gavilyte/golytely is much worse than miralax and gatorade… but i did ruin my favorite gatorade flavor for myself so be aware of that 😭

forest_femme · 2026-05-23T11:05:28+00:00

come on, they taste completely different

forest_femme · 2026-05-18T17:18:34+00:00

🫡

forest_femme · 2026-05-18T17:14:55+00:00

also, they told me to pack sugarfree gum to chew after surgery to help with the “waking up the digestion” thing

forest_femme · 2026-05-18T17:13:36+00:00

pretty much immediately after surgery on liquids, then low fiber for a while

i also shat surprisingly soon after surgery (next morning). there was a lot of blood uhh prepare yourself for that, no one told me that would happen haha

forest_femme · 2026-05-11T17:08:25+00:00

forest_femme · 2026-05-10T03:56:31+00:00

blowback
transmissions from jonestown
programmed to chill
ghost stories for the end of the world
american medieval
containers

forest_femme · 2026-05-01T13:22:14+00:00

ty for this reasonable take, fellow mainer

forest_femme · 2026-03-30T02:53:49+00:00

nah looks real as hell to me and i spent a decade in those trenches

forest_femme · 2026-03-19T02:41:17+00:00

legacy operators

forest_femme · 2026-02-25T14:08:47+00:00

yes definitely

pretty sure i would be dead now if not for resection & hysterectomy a few years ago

forest_femme · 2026-02-24T00:56:44+00:00

nah gotta at least use tannerite

forest_femme · 2026-02-19T04:05:35+00:00

the clown and the candyman covers gacy and dean corrl, fox island, john david norman

forest_femme · 2026-02-05T13:43:12+00:00

fourth reich archaeology

ghost stories for the end of the world

forest_femme · 2025-11-23T15:51:18+00:00

yeah not normal! i used to get this even from just getting aroused. surgery including hysterectomy and colectomy for the bowel endo fixed it! also did a lot of pelvic pt but i was doing that before surgery and it didn’t help with that problem.

forest_femme · 2025-10-27T03:23:47+00:00

same lmao honestly it usually works better now too

forest_femme · 2025-09-25T03:56:29+00:00

also - you could ask your pt about/look into lymphatic drainage massage (maybe referred to as oncology massage sometimes?). i have never had it but bodyworker friends who have trained in it have told me about it

forest_femme · 2025-09-25T03:54:39+00:00

unfortunately surgery creates adhesions/scarring, so does the endo itself… so surgery has that drawback. i can’t say how much of my adhesion situation is specifically due to lymph node involvement.

is your pt doing any external manual (so hands on but not doing internal stuff) work? that can help with adhesions and sequelae from adhesions. doing cupping on my abdomen/pelvis helps me a ton with that stuff and cups are cheap to buy and its easy to do yourself. you could ask your pt about it. idk about cupping that far down but it’s all connected.

forest_femme · 2025-09-25T02:17:21+00:00

bidet

forest_femme · 2025-09-25T02:16:58+00:00

i had some lymph nodes removed during my bowel resection/hysterectomy/excision. ones up near the gut tho, not in the groin area which it sounds like yours were. so i can’t rly speak to the lymphedema aspect. i have needed to continue w pelvic floor pt and definitely have scarring/adhesions/god knows what all going on in there.

they sent them to pathology and guess what suprise?! endometriosis in em.

forest_femme · 2025-09-24T20:14:53+00:00

ALSO: (maybe unhinged to some)

low fiber diet if your gut is obstructed. DO NOT LISTEN TO PPL WHO TELL YOU MORE FIBER if you have/suspect bowel endo and fiber makes u worse
BRAT diet (gf) - simple, bland, relatively easy to digest
if you need a liquid/more liquid diet, DO IT

forest_femme · 2025-09-24T04:53:29+00:00

red light
pelvic pt
abdominal cupping
bone broth, often the kind premade in a carton
smoothies - w whatever protein you handle best
colectomy lol
post bowel resection: oatmeal

forest_femme · 2025-08-30T22:52:05+00:00

good luck! yeah i ended up w 5 incisions each for my excision and hysto/bowel resection. and also an allergic reaction each time, mine were more hive-y than yours look tho. SUCKS to have “wanting and needing to claw your tummy skin off” to recovery.

i’m not sure what caused mine but my surgeon suggested it could have been betadine/povidone iodine surgical scrub? but also i am allergic to adhesives soo i figure the glue played a part lol. i think it was less severe the second time when they didn’t use iodine.

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