 HELP!!!
Hi there,
I just ran into this web site and i am hoping to get some q's answered by people who may understand what i am going through...
History:
I am a 23 year old female that has suffered from severve constipation for over 20+ years. :x For the past 5+ years I have relied on high doses of laxatives and herbal teas to have a BM. The pills and the teas sometimes are worst than the constipation. I am always bloated, stomach turing, and sometimes nauseated. I have complained for years about this to doctors but no one would take it seriously until I went head to head with my insurance. A dr. ended up performing a colonoscopy (with was supposed to be a lower exam) and I ended up with a tear in my intestines, and went on antibiotics and pain medication with opiods that just made me worst and I ended up in the hospital (sorry to be talking so much). After a complaint the head of the GI department agreed to see me, and had me take a sitz (SP?) marker study wich showed increased transit time in my colon, and the markers not moving out. She suggested 3 options:
1- to take laxatives (such as myralax) for the rest of my life
2- a 4 week period of antibiotics
3- surgery to remove my colon
With all the problems that I have had I am leaning towards the surgery, but you know the way insurances operate!!! So I will be taking to antibiotics for 4 weeks. She wanted me to wait and see how that went and then have some sort of rectal M? test. I pushed to have it now (they are just being cheap because they have to refer me a larger hospital) so the referal is put in for that...
I guess I am wondering...
1- How people have dealt with this and what these antibiotics are?
2- And what experiences or complications or benefits people have had with this surgery?
Thank you for taking the time to hear me blab...
~H
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