UC and severe constipation-help!

How were the adhesions found? It sounds like checking for their return would be a 1st step. Since they were the cause of constipation before, checking for adhesions should be the 1st suspect in new constipation.

Was it conclusively determined the adhesions formed due to IBD inflammation? Maybe you are getting them for some other reason.

Hi lizzy

Constipation (also known as C here) is my main symptom that I devote my energy to prevent. In my case certain foods (a lot of them actually) cause my colon to come to a halt and it's a bear to get things moving again.

Here are some of the foods I avoid or eat very little of: fiber is the #1 problem and it is present in a lot of things I like to eat (but don't) such as oatmeal, olives, broccoli, kale and collards, and as I think of more I'll edit to add more. The only fiber pill my gut allows is Citrucel, the other fiber pills cause C and I have tried most of them.

Besides fiber the #2 cause of C for me are grains. Rice, wheat, all of them. I LOVE bread and rice but my gut cannot handle them. Luckily I can have one piece of Udi's white bread (rice flour) as toast in the morning. Cannot explain why this is OK and cooked rice is not but it is.

What I do when C appears: teaspoons of olive oil, lots of water, exercise. I have even eaten foods that cause BM's such as grapes because fructose does that. As you probably know even coffee doesn't help when the big C happens. Healthy oils really help: coconut oil, olive oil, etc.

Your food list that causes C may be different than mine or maybe food makes no difference for you.
Some doctors suggest going on a low residue diet but that usually involves bread which is not good for me.

Hope you find some answers.
I have found in US that GI docs are of no help when it comes to non-RX answers. They have blank faces when diet is mentioned because they have no training in it. It took me years to figure out good food vs. bad food for my gut but when I got it figured out my gut got hugely better acting.

hi thanks for the replies. that's interesting gardener.
Yea I did think id been eating more recently and maybe that had made it worse. I'm on certain medications that make me hungry all the time so its hard :( but I'm currently trying a pretty much all fluid diet for a week to see if that helps things. I was also told I should have a low fibre diet by a dietician. I don't rerally eat vegetables :p or rice or pasta anymore. like you bread probably isn't good, but all I was eating before was sandwiches as I couldn't eat cooked meals as it gave me stomach pain. I cant stand all the horrible non wheat bread though, I have tried. I have looked at FODMAP but for the reason of not being able to eat bread I didn't think it was do-able. however I don't think the whole answer is diet, because my problems so severe. I've started taking colon clense tablets which have aloe vera in.
although iv got bad constipation, I actually think its got mucus now and looks not right, like bowel wall or something.

yes worriedUcer I think its more the taste, not heard of compounders before and most pharmacys here don't even stock it, I could only ever get it as an inpatient. shame them don't do it in pills.

Has anyone heard of sacral nerve stimulation?