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Originally Posted by tweezers74
All very good advice. Reinforcing the "keep the bowels moving" thing. Not fun if you are already in pain and straining. Then you want to take more pain meds and get backed up even more. Vicious cycle. So don't hesitate to take something gentle like docusate sodium and/or senna. They work different ways so you can take both at the same time. I got good at this when I was oncology nurse and my patients got stopped up all the time with the pain meds they were on.
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Good advice to all.
Don't be ashamed of natural systems(maintenance) which make you, the patient, better.
And thank the person caring for you. It's never easy.