New Diagnosis: Mild Colitis?

  Hope this is an ok place to post this question. Am 58, in pain management for 4 years. Every single day for 4 years have had oxycodone/Percocet in system and constipation.   2 months ago used massive amounts of tea and stool softeners ( over a 2 months period ), because it felt like something was stuff inside sometimes. That feeling didn’t go away until they took me to the er last week and gave me iv antibiotics and something to keep from drying out ( fluid of some kind ). I was having massive bloating. They did a catscan, took blood etc and he came back and told me I have mild colitis and gave me a prescript ion for more antibiotics which I’ve been taking for today is the 4th day. I scaled back my pain meds by 1/4 pill. In addition to the colitis it felt like a lump in my rectum and I got scared after a doctor who did not examine me told me it’s probablt rectal prolapse. I’ts a very small lump but when I pushed on it manually the other day poop came out.   This morning everything changed. I went to bed last night after eating very little mostly soft food for the last few days, weighing 157 lbs, feeling hungry and this morning at 4am my stool was little tiny hard, black pieces, enough to cover the bottom of the toilet. 2 hours later, 6am I was up again, this time a major unloading. Afterwards I weighed myself and I was 155 lbs. I was stunned because I have not had a b/m like that in a long time with no struggling and I definitely did not eat that much yesterday to justify that large an amount to excrete. But then at 9am I went yet again and at 9:30 yet again and both times were a lot. I ended up at 154 lbs . My wife made me a soft food breakfast and the bloating that has been coming on is not happening ( yet? It’s been 30 minutes). What’s really something is how easy, the stool appeared to exit my system and how much. The stool started on the Bristol scale ( Bristol Chart: http://www.sthk.nhs.uk/library/documents/stoolchart.pdf ) started black, hard and type 1 and ended at least a type 5 . I have not had a type 5 in a long time.   Question, is it possible that this mild colitis is really mild and reacting to the antibiotics? Is this a bad thing to poop so much? Thank you in advance for a reply, the er doc told me that if the antibiotics don’t work to admit myself for surgery .Huh?

Sounds like you were pretty backed up. Glad the antibiotic seems to be helping. My advice since you need to take the pain meds is to add a probiotic and a fiber supplement. Add them in slowly though and you may need to play around with what works well for you. Good luck.