Hi... Im 38, had rectocele repair 10 months ago. They used a pig skin graft. Surgery went very well. Two weeks post op all my bowel troubles set in. I am so constipated. I can only go about once a week. I feel like I'm going to die... I turn white as a ghost, get a fever, stomach cramps, shake, sweat, sometimes throw up, have to use 4-6 enemas each time, and believe it or not I have sat in the bathroom 10 hours trying to "go." Usually I'm in there 1-3 hours "trying." Upon "arrival" it either looks cut in half (lengthwise) or is as skinny as a pencil, and is at least 2 or 3 foot long. At this point I am so exhausted, I really feel like I have given birth to a fourth baby, I have pink to red colored discharge from vagina {YES, it is from there} and my insides ache for a good day or two {like the same pain post op}.
I have been to the ER once, they did a CT and gave me pain medicine, sent me home. They didn't even do a rectal exam ( not that I really wanted one) I have had a colonoscopy "everything looks good". How in the world can things "look good" when I swear I am dying trying to have a BM.
Lately I eat fiber pills like candy, drink fiber mixtures, take 5 stool softeners a day drink 3/4 of a gallon of water per day.
I think the problem is where the rectum and the colon meet. scared tissue? Colon tipped to far?
If anyone has any suggestions, I would welcome them... Thank you