immodium

Immodium - take it no less than 30 minutes before eating. Not 29. It holds for about 4 hours. Then you take more, wait 30 minutes and have the next meal.
Foods are individual. There are lots of lists on the net, the hospital probabl recommended a soft diet. Stay away fromthings that cause gas, things with coarse fiber, mushrooms, anything raw. What helps with bm's are any form of potatoes, noodles, creamy peanut butter, small portions of rice with chicken or fish, cottage cheese, eggs. Very small amounts of sweets. Stay away from things with a lot of cream or butter. Nothing hot and spicy, or at least not very hot and spicy. Really fresh spices, like if you eat in a good Viet Namese restaurant, where the put the natural form of the spice direction into your soup or whatever, is a bit radical for you right now, that would give me D.

Hey, B'Dereah, I just thought of something else. I use myfitnesspal.com which is an app for the smart phones to record what I eat. It's really an app for watching your weight and exercise and everything, but you can use it to record the foods you eat too, and the date you ate them. It even reads the bar codes -- it's free and it works really great. I started using it because i am kind of a fitness nut, but I now can refer to it to see what I ate over the last few days to see what foods may be causing problems and which may not. It's a lot easier to use it rather than carry a paper list around with you.

thanks. Yes, I am having some good improvement, but there are times when you get set backs too -- which I assume is normal. The doctors, while they are good surgeons, etc, they have very little knowledge of what all of us go through and in terms of what we can do to help ourselves. Please stay in touch.