It takes 45 minutes every poop

Cinn
on 1/5/15 11:36 am - MI

Seriously. Is this the case with anyone else? If I think I'm done, I have to run right back in there. Is this normal? Six years out from RNY.


 

RNY: 9/3/2008     LBL: 6/5/2013

poet_kelly
on 1/5/15 1:54 pm - OH

No, of course it's not normal.  Sounds like you are very constipated.  I use Miralax to help with that.

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Kate -True Brit
on 1/5/15 4:48 pm - UK

No! Not normal.  Do you mean you are constipated or the opposite? Whichever, something needs to change! Your diet, the amount of fluid you are drinking, or you need a supplement to break the cycle. 

Highest 290, Banded - 248   Lowest 139 (too thin!). Comfort zone 155-165.

Happily banded since May 2006.  Regain of 28lbs 2013-14.  ALL GONE!

But some has returned! Up to 175, argh! Off we go again,

   

Citizen Kim
on 1/5/15 9:23 pm - Castle Rock, CO

I will often go 2 or 3 times in the morning.   I'm not someone who sits in there reading, FB'ing etc (ewwwww) so I feel it's because I will go, get up and do something and then go again!

I've never thought it meant I had a problem 

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Kate -True Brit
on 1/6/15 9:22 pm - UK
On January 6, 2015 at 5:23 AM Pacific Time, Citizen (USA & Brit) Kim wrote:

I will often go 2 or 3 times in the morning.   I'm not someone who sits in there reading, FB'ing etc (ewwwww) so I feel it's because I will go, get up and do something and then go again!

I've never thought it meant I had a problem 

I sometimes go several times but I don't have to "run back in".

Highest 290, Banded - 248   Lowest 139 (too thin!). Comfort zone 155-165.

Happily banded since May 2006.  Regain of 28lbs 2013-14.  ALL GONE!

But some has returned! Up to 175, argh! Off we go again,

   

Cinn
on 1/5/15 11:16 pm - MI

No, it's not constipation. Just....going. Seems to take forever to empty the bowels. I may try a few things like probiotics and more water.


 

RNY: 9/3/2008     LBL: 6/5/2013

hollykim
on 1/6/15 2:10 am - Nashville, TN
Revision on 03/18/15
On January 6, 2015 at 7:16 AM Pacific Time, Cinn wrote:

No, it's not constipation. Just....going. Seems to take forever to empty the bowels. I may try a few things like probiotics and more water.

are you eating a lot of carbs or artificial sweeteners? They will make me go more....

 


          

 

White Dove
on 1/5/15 11:53 pm - Warren, OH

You are never going to absorb food like before surgery, so that malabsorbed food takes up more space when it comes out.  I don't stay in the bathroom, but realize I will have to go back two or three times in the morning before I am finished for the day. 

Real life begins where your comfort zone ends

jeterway
on 1/6/15 3:55 am

I usually go when I first wake up and then about 30 minutes later I am back in the bathroom.  Each time in the bathroom is just a couple of minutes though.  This is my new normal since about a year out from surgery.

CGCL
on 1/6/15 4:09 am
RNY on 02/19/15

That sounds normal to me, but I am prep with IBS. I asked my surgeon if RNY would help or exacerbate the IBS and she said it depends on the person...

Height: 6'0" HW 5/2013 295. Consult 7/29/14 275. SW 261. RNY 2/19/15. M1:-33! M2:-13.5. M3:-12. M4:-10.8. M5:-9.7. M6:-5. M7: -4.5. Pregnant 8/15-5/16. 10 weeks post partum: 173.

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