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Prolapsed rectum: living with it versus surgery
Digestive Health | Last Active: Nov 17 7:22am | Replies (55)Comment receiving replies
I am 70 years old and just had the surgery two months ago. So far I’ve had positive results. . The prolapse has been corrected, but the occasional incontinence has not.
I’m hoping that Keagle exercises and maybe nerve stimulator therapy will help. It seems to have improved from before the surgery and much more when I can balance between constipation, and diarrhea. I also decided to have the surgery at this age and not risk complications and recovery at an older age. Prolapse will not get better on its own. It will only get worse without correction. Good luck
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Thank you so much for sharing this ❤️. That sounds hopeful for you and for me. It also sounds hard still. I hope that it improves for you!!! Nerve stimulation helps for incontinence? May I ask how often occasional incontinence occurs for you? Do you manage it with what and when you eat?
Thank you so much for your advice 🫂
I had fecal incontinence supposedly due to dyssynergic sphincter. I had biofeedback therapy which didn't help. I then worked with a medical dietician, recommended by my gastroenterologist. Through diet (especially an increase in fiber and switching to low fodmap foods), Metamucil daily(3 tsps), and a low dose of magnesium citrate (150mgs. daily) it cleared up completely. I am now working, with the help of the same dietician to reduce and/or eliminate the mag citrate and just rely on an increased fiber intake. So far that is working well and I do not have the awful fecal leakage.
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Thank you so much for posting. And this was a rectum prolapse only?