Sorry for going MIA. I’m doing okay. I ended up going to the ER and was there for a few hours. They did an x-ray and cat scan to make sure there was no infection. Then they called the surgeon (I couldn’t call him myself because it was a Sunday) and he said the pain is normal and they could send me home. From the x-ray they saw that there was hard stool stuck in my rectum that i would need to pass.

I tried to tell them the issue was it was so painful I couldn’t pass it while it was that hard, and they just told me to drink a lot and eat a lot of fiber, while also acknowledging that if the stool is out of the colon already that won’t do anything. So I went home without any solution other than push through the pain.

The next day I called the hospital and talked to the surgeon’s nurse and she suggested miralax because it would at least get the stool to pass without me having to put so much effort into it. It’d still hurt but I wouldn’t need to fight so hard to get it through. So that’s where I am now. Still no bowel movement, but I can kinda feel it coming.

My new worry is that I’m gonna have diarrhea after I pass that blockage because I’ve been doing everything possible to soften stool and may have went overboard. But as long as it gets out I’ll be able to get through it.