Post surgery constipation - help!

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I had a laparoscopy on Wednesday but haven’t actually have a bowel movement since Tuesday. I need to go, I have the urge to go and have stomach ache/cramps but it won’t come out. My stomach is very tender and won’t allow me to push very much. The slightest pushing movement and my stomach starts shaking as if I’m doing a plank and I can’t do any more. I have been taking a stool softener dulcoease with no luck as of yet and I’m just wondering do I need something more hardcore? Maybe a stool softener isn’t enough? I’m just scared in case I take a laxative and even that doesn’t come out?! I can only just barely push so how am I supposed to get anything out. Sorry for the TMI but I am desperate as I’m having the urge to go and it’s getting painful

Get some suppository’s from the chemist. And maybe take a painkiller if that might help.
Increase your fluids, and get some prunes, they really do work. I’d eat 6 or 7 a day until you’re going regularly.

Drink two glasses of water and one cup of strong coffee and get up and walk around for 15 minutes.

Repeat every hour till you get a result.

Cup of booking water, as hit as you can stand it to be drinkable. Prune juice.

Sit on the loo with your feet on a stool. Be prepared to sit there and wait.

Get glycerin suppositories from the pharmacy.

When you're not on the loo, if you can, lie in your back and pull your knees up to your chest and rock.

Warm bath with bubble bath.

Good luck. Horrid, horrid thing to be going through.

Have you been eating normally? Rhubarb is in season! Always works for me. Then there are frozen fruits to be defrosted and warmed up such as berries of different kinds. Also are you drinking enough fluids?So sorry you are so uncomfortable.

I have had horrendous constipation from chemo with the same symptoms as yours. Laxido sachets are really effective, you can buy them in the chemist but you have to ask for them. Take 3 sachets a day and in between doses, drink plenty of water. It works by drawing in water to your bowel and so will soften the stool. It might take a day or two to work, but persevere. You have my sympathy, for something which medically is very mild, it is truly awful.