amu
10-08-09, 23:28
Well yeah. Despite my on-going bowel cancer fear I don't usually have digestive problems, I eat a lot of fibre and go to the toilet once a day (for this purpose anyway :)).
However, two days ago I had a horrible experience. I had a so-called impacted stool. This meant that even though I had been to the toilet the day before, I was so constipated that I couldn't pass the stool as it was too hard and I guess large to pass through the anus, and not just what most people have a couple of times, but something very very bad that I knew would not move in any natural ways.
I don't know why this happened, although I didn't drink enough that day and before, might have been that.
So there I was, literally crying on the toilet, in huge pain, trying every half an hour to go but nothing happened, I just became very sore and my body refused to do anything so I couldn't even try after a while. I looked it up on the internet (as you do :blush:) and it said that if you to go to A&E with this scenario, the doctors will manually remove parts of the stool until it comes out. :huh: To save my dignity I tried to do this myself with no success. That was until I discovered my son's glycerin suppositories from when he was a baby, used one and carried on with the manual technique until I finally got rid of the stool.
It was by all means the worst health experience I have ever had, worse than childbirth, colonoscopy, cystitis, facial paralysis and everything else I had (so far, says the "optimist" in me :D).
Anyway. Since then I haven't been feeling my best. I was a bit tired and sore for the rest of the day, and even now I feel a bit weak and shivery. So now I am worried that there is an infection in my rectum or something from a tear (but I can feel no tears and there is no bleeding).
Do you think the fatigue is completely unrelated, or can it be because of this? Has anyone had this awful thing before?
Amu
However, two days ago I had a horrible experience. I had a so-called impacted stool. This meant that even though I had been to the toilet the day before, I was so constipated that I couldn't pass the stool as it was too hard and I guess large to pass through the anus, and not just what most people have a couple of times, but something very very bad that I knew would not move in any natural ways.
I don't know why this happened, although I didn't drink enough that day and before, might have been that.
So there I was, literally crying on the toilet, in huge pain, trying every half an hour to go but nothing happened, I just became very sore and my body refused to do anything so I couldn't even try after a while. I looked it up on the internet (as you do :blush:) and it said that if you to go to A&E with this scenario, the doctors will manually remove parts of the stool until it comes out. :huh: To save my dignity I tried to do this myself with no success. That was until I discovered my son's glycerin suppositories from when he was a baby, used one and carried on with the manual technique until I finally got rid of the stool.
It was by all means the worst health experience I have ever had, worse than childbirth, colonoscopy, cystitis, facial paralysis and everything else I had (so far, says the "optimist" in me :D).
Anyway. Since then I haven't been feeling my best. I was a bit tired and sore for the rest of the day, and even now I feel a bit weak and shivery. So now I am worried that there is an infection in my rectum or something from a tear (but I can feel no tears and there is no bleeding).
Do you think the fatigue is completely unrelated, or can it be because of this? Has anyone had this awful thing before?
Amu