[livingwith]

I am a 50 year old white female with a brief history of diverticulosis and diverticulitis. About a year ago, with no warning, my bowel habits changed dramatically. Then I developed my first bout with diverticulitis By the time surgery was scheduled to remove the disease damaged portion of my colon, the condition advanced rapidly so that the bowel was being obstructed.
I had the resection two weeks ago. There has still not been a restoration of “normal” bowel function despite recomm...Read the full article

[Ree]

I am a 73 year old female who recently had an adenomatous polyp and 18 inches of my colon removed. After my surgery, I requested an RX for "Miralax" which is a tasteless, mix with water, stool softener. Although I experienced the same type of symptoms that you described, I think that the Miralax helped me to "get things going". I had some issues with my abdominal incision and they had to reopen it. When I had that done, the surgeon told me to stop sitting on the "john" and waiting for something to happen. So I didn't do that unless I felt that something was definitely going to happen. Hope this helps. Good luck.