Bowel obstructions caused by adhesions following abdominal surgery

This is very helpful,,, thank you so much. I admit that I do have some whole wheat occasionally as I understand one does need some fiber. Also there is a big difference between soluble and insoluble fiber and I try and stick to the soluble. Interesting about the olive oil.. I will definitely look into that. I would love to give up the Miralex or at least cut down the amount of times I have it. I had exactly the same -- adhesions and a SBO and would do anything not to have another one.

I have short gut syndrome. I only have 2ft of my small intestines left but I still have my large intestines. Some people with short gut syndrome shouldn't take Miralax. Miralax can work the opposite way. Miralax made me constipated and dehydrated.

I have questions about olive oil. How much a day and how do you take it? I use Miralax every other day now.

Here is a pic of the olive oil I use. It is hard to find. I recently ordered it on Amazon. I take 1-2 teaspoons. I take Teaspoon daily, if I have not had a bowel movement all day I will take an extra teaspoon that night and the next morning I usually go. I just take it straight. Using this olive oil here there is really no taste, I usually drink some apple juice right after just to rinse the oil out of my mouth.

Oh my gosh! I looked up the ingredients in your "olive" oil. There is very little actual olive oil in that bottle! The first ingredient is soybean oil. Next is mineral oil and last is olive oil. It is probably the mineral oil that is helping you go!

Really? i will have to look it all up on Google translate. While I have been out I have been using regular olive oil and it tastes so gross but I still have not needed miralax. Thank you for the info I appreciate it

Here is the back of the bottle

Yep! It's still soybean, mineral and olive oils.

Personally I would keep using Miralax... my gastroenterologist said there is no harm using it forever (although the bottle says only for 7 days). It doesn't taste bad. Bit of a nuisance every night to us it but it dissolves and is just like drinking water. The thought of a spoonful of olive oil is not appealing to me but it may be better for some others!

I don't know if this will help anyone else, but this is what helped me: My surgeon told me, when I showed up in the ER 3 times in the months following abdominal surgery that I had adhesions and he suggested walking after every meal. This has been a life changer for me. I now walk at least 1/2 mile after breakfast and lunch and 1 mile after dinner. I live in the northeast and this is a pain in the neck and there are many times I do not want to go out and walk in the cold or rain or dark, but I do it because the alternative sucks! And I have not been to the ER since I have been doing this. So I agree, that this is a mechanical problem, and the walking really moves the food through at a rate that keeps the obstruction from happening. I also eat smaller meals and NEVER have 2nd helpings. Hope this helps!!