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Ah, @bouli, now I understand. I would like to stay up to date on what you find out once your GI receives your February testing results, if you don’t mind coming back and posting.

It’s so funny you write about a bidet. I read your comment the day after seeing one in the bathroom where we ate dinner the evening prior (first time ever). Well, that and also a claw foot bathtub filled with water and goldfish of all things. What a great idea that provides you flexibility in your day-to-day.

You mention your GI NP brought up therapy, so without knowing anything about test results. For me, it was the recommendation at my initial GI consult at Mayo Clinic. I was told it would affect everything from the bottom up and that the anorectal manometry would be done to confirm his suspicions. Therapy absolutely helped, then once I got to a sort of new normal condition we did other testing to rule out blockages, slow transit time, etc. It has been a valuable approach.

Do you know what prompted your GI’s recommendation to pursue pelvic floor physical therapy?

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My GI NP recommended pelvic floor PT because of what I have to do to have normal digestion- both Motegrity and Trulance, a bidet and sometimes MiraLAX. She thinks something has to be wrong somewhere. I was all ready to take the MRI defecography test and the Sitz marker test also but my experience with the colorectal surgeon was so negative that I decided to wait for the results of the manometry test before I saw a new surgeon.