First Bowel Movement after surgery

I am sure some others may be curious but what is your first bowel movement like? how long after surgery did it take for you to have one?

For me, it was three days after surgery.  It was normal, not hard or runny.  Hope that helps!  :)

mine was 4 days post surgery (so i was home for it). It was uneventful/average. But, the gas? Shoooo!

I was a special case from the sounds of it.

I had a bowel movement the next afternoon. The first one was normal... but was soon followed by 4-5 others over the next 5-6 hours. They were loose and had dark red blood.

Now before you panic... it is normal to have one or two dark blood BM's post surgery, but since mine were frequent with significant blood... they took me off blood thinners and kept me in hospital an extra day to watch my hemoglobin levels... it was more of a precaution since I lived over an hour away from the hospital that did my surgery and there was a significant snow storm at the time.

The one thing I can say is be a little more aware of what's happening in the bowl.... as unpleasant as it may be there are things the dr's and nurses are best to know... if you must keep a log of pain/ meds/ BM's/ nausea/ dizzyness etc... I just keep track on myfitness pal in the section that says notes. easier to see patterns and such.

I had one in the hospital, maybe the day of or day after surgery and it was pretty funky looking. No pain, probably due to the morphine pump, but kinda loose and not pretty due to the leftover blood. Subsequent ones were much more normal. Hope that's not TMI!

Thank you everyone,  I had mine yesterday which was 4 days past surgery date, I had a protein drink yesterday and well it looked exactly like my drink lol but now I have horrible gas worse than the past two days. I will hope it all works its way out and will be fine tomorrow.

Thank you everyone

I had exploding diarrhea 3 days after surgery.  It was e gas and stupid carnation instant breakfast they gave me in the hospital