Hello I am heather, im 24 yrs old and am a recovering anorexic w a past of lax abuse... I 2 hv suffered w constipation my entire life. I just took the sitzmarker capsule and gotta wait 5 days till my first xray... My belly is so huge and distended and xrays showed my colon completely packed of stool. I have so much pain I had to take med. leave from wrk. I have been in and out of er this past month and tried every flippin lax. min. oil all those nasty tasting things like mag citrate, fleet phosphsoda and a bunch of other crap... I did enemas but i barely got any relief from them as well. I am also on miralax and amitiza and notne work. I go to gi dr. on the 22nd of july. I haven't had bm in 3 1/2 wks and it really really sucks. I'm nauseous all of the time and I throw up food alot not on purpse either, My dr. thinks that subtotal colectomy could b my answer to a very serious prolonging uncomfortable painful endless problem. I am almost sure I hv COLONIC INERTIA... oh and because I am so impacted by fecal my hands and face always swell along w my belly which is so big I can't even button size 12 jeans around my waist when even at my healthy weight be4 this whole mess the highest size i was in was a 3. Now combine that with extreme fear of getting fat ter and tell me u wouldn't wnna commit suicide, I am still here though, I need info on the surgery? and since im very impacted w pounds and pounds of fecal will i lose that and the swelling when and if i hv the subtotal colectomy? is recovery time short? how bad is the pain? I replied 2 u because we r almost same age and I thought if u wanted u could email me and keep me posted with how ur doing and if u need support and if u want to u can return the favor. Anyways Take care my email is
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