Small bowel obstruction
Has anyone here ever experienced any small bowel obstruction?
if so, what was your experience?
Thanks in advance for sharing
Banded 6/9/09 HW 242 LW 142 Revision 198 m 1 loss 16 lbs 182. M 2 loss 4 lbs 178. M3 loss 6 lbs 174.m4 loss 4 lbs 168. M5 gain 2 lbs 170. M6 loss 7 lbs 163 M7 loss 5 lbs 159 M8 loss 1 lb 158 M9 loss 0 M10 155 loss 3 M11 154 loss 1 M12 loss 2 152 M13 loss 3 149 M16, 17 0 loss M 18 loss 4 lbs 145 (18 months 53 lbs)
I haven't had a bowel obstruction but I did have a twisted bowel. I was in pain and had emergency surgery. they also fixed a hernia while they were in there. The surgeon told me the twisted bowel was an emergency and could have led to death so it was handled very quickly.
HW 305 SW 278 Surgery weight 225 GW 160 LW: 118.8
RNY 12/15/2015,
GB removal 09/2016,
Twisted bowel/hernia repair 08/2017
M1 Dec 2015-13.0, M2-7.0, M3-14.5, M4-9.4, M5-7.1, M6 9.8, M7-7.6 ,M8- 7.6, M-9 5.5, M10-6.4, M11- 2.2, M12 Dec 2016- 5.8
I did at 4 days PO. I was in the ER because I could feel the obstruction blocking. They did an enema which didn't work. Next plan was to try a glycerin suppository. But since I was in so much pain, they opted to skip that & go the most drastic way. That was do a soap enema. TMI ahead. They take a bag that looks like of like an IV bag with an opening on top & tube out the bottom. Poor warm saline water mixed with soap in the bag & up the tube goes in your bum. And they fill you with the entire bag of fluid. Very painful to be honest. But since my bowels had not perforated at that point, they didn't want to do surgery to manually remove yet. This worked! After about 30 minutes, I was able to clear it all with no pain, thankfully. I left like a new person afterwards! Now I do whatever I can to prevent constipation.
Good luck! Feel better quickly!
