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Anybody here have chronic constipation & pelvic floor dysfunction?
Digestive Health | Last Active: Jun 14 5:53am | Replies (48)Comment receiving replies
My problem is somewhat unique. I had cervical spine surgery, June of 2020. It was long surgery and when I woke up my bowels have never functioned. I mean never. Went through two years of testing to figure it out and not much for a diagnosis. They scheduled me for a total colectomy. Two weeks before, I cancelled . Again, I was scheduled and canceled deciding to live a life of laxatives.
The issue now is I’ve been doing this 5 years and not much works. My nightly and morning regimen is huge amounts along with a colonoscopy prep every two weeks. All meds and diets failed. I think my situation is so different it’s not diet or exercise or water that will he help me. My doctor thought my last resort is Mayo because if anyone can find a way they can and they might say the same thing, take it out.
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I had a total colectomy at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester after literally months and months of testing there. I had a Nissen fundoplication 360 at JHU & unfortunately the surgeon decided to perform the surgery by hand bc the robot wasn’t working & I wish I hadn’t had the surgery. In addition to damaging my vagus nerve I also ended up with gastroparesis, slow intestinal transit, a wrap that was so tight I couldn’t swallow my own salvia, & the worst chronic constipation I have ever had (there were times I didn’t have a BM for a month). After years of agony & having the head of GI at Johns Hopkins call me a conundrum I flew out to Rochester. It was the doctors there who diagnosed me with vagus nerve damage, gastroparesis, Slow intestinal transit, & told me that my colon had been dying/shutting down over the years and now it was dead. I was nervous when I was told I needed a total colectomy but also relived that there was a reason why I felt like & looked like crap and that they had solution. My only regret was not going to Mayo sooner