Sorry this is really grim but I'm panicking - extreme constipation

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I've just come out of hosp after v bad acute pancreatitis which am still recovering from. I was in hosp 2 weeks and I didn't poo since the day before I went in by ambulance.

Anyway, I can't get the poo out. Will movicol help with the stuff that's stuck like concrete right near the bottom? I'm scares to keep taking it unless it works on the huge concrete stuff in the way. The last thing I need is an increased urge to push when I literally cannot get it out?

I'm so sorry it's grim and I'm desperate. The hospital just sent me home w senna and movicol and no advice and I'm terrified.

Hope the GP got back to you. Don't try to do much, rest and more rest. My son (9 at the time but SLD/ASD) became very clingy and easily scared when I disappeared unexpectedly to hospital for a couple of weeks.
Hope you are feeling better.

I'm very glad that you've been, have you kept going with the movicol?

Did the GP get back to you?

Your discharge sounds very poorly planned and I would urge you to put in a complaint when you feel able to.

Knackered and not managing very well.

Movicol causes such stomach cramps & the constant running to the loo is too hard at the moment. But on the other hand, with no movicol my system just seems to 'freeze'. God I'm bone tired.

Is there any one (district nurse, ward sister, GP) who can advise. You probably still need the movicol but perhaps adjust the dose slowly down till poo is soft and regular. It takes a couple of days for the effects of movicol to get from mouth to the other end so to speak. I only have experience of movicol through ds, but in the early days had access to a constipation nurse, who helped me with the dose changes. Hope there is someone to help you.
Rest and more rest

Movicol really shouldn't cause stomach cramps. It's a stool softener, unlike a stimulant laxative (like senna) which does cause cramps. My guess would be that it's something other than Movicol causing the cramps. You should still ask for advice, obviously, but I'd wager there's another explanation.