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Problems months after colon resection surgery: What Helps?
Colorectal Cancer | Last Active: Jun 4 9:58am | Replies (521)Comment receiving replies
Well it's been a year and I still have diarrhea, for some reason the message isn't getting to my brain to run into the bathroom!
Anyone have any suggestions to stop this?? I have tried many things including prescriptions.
I would love to have a salad but they go right thru me!
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I have similar issues and had been trying to live with the diarrhea without taking anything, the natural approach. It certainly wasn’t working for me. I started to take Imodium, which helps but there’s a rebound effect. My only advice is to try to eat small meals and listen to your body, just assume you will need to use the bathroom after every meal and snack and act accordingly. Take the time to take care of yourself. For right now and for a long time to come your body won’t be as it has been in the past. You will come to a new normal and it’s difficult but you may have to accept that change so you can move on with your life. Learn to listen to yourself and your needs and take care of yourself at this time in your life. Keep in touch with a proactive doctor who listens and has good suggestions for you. Reach out
to those who care about you. You will get better.
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I had watery diarrhea, often explosive, for exactly a year.
And then it was gone!
Now I have to be careful to not become constipated.
I was reading the posts here of others who were misled into thinking that diarrhea didn't last long. I never thought so.
I was thinking after so many months that a year could be possible.
I have no clue why or how my diarrhea all of a sudden stopped.
I am just thankful that it did!
I hope that your miracle is coming soon!
Paul