Hi,
This is my first post here, really glad I found this place!
I was operated last Monday and got a loop colostomy because I kept getting intensely painful anal fissures that wouldn't heal no matter what I did and what other surgeries I got.
After the surgery, I have had several episodes where I felt that I needed to use the toilet. Today I got a really powerful urge again and I got the feeling that there was something in there this time. After a warm water enema, several pieces (3-4 at the size of something like flat grapes) of really firm stool came out. It was clearly stool and not mucus, although I could see some mucus mixed in there.
This freaked me out, especially since the reason for my surgery was to avoid having stools to heal the fissures. I knew there could be some “overflow” with a loop colostomy, but this was way more than I imagined.
What experiences have other people here with a loop colostomy have? Do you have a lot of stools passing by the stoma?
My output so far is rather like a liquid mush, like loose porridge or something. Is it possible that this is why there was so much stool in the bowel motion today and that it'll get less as the output gets more solid when I heal more after the surgery?
Can some of it have been leftover stool from before the surgery? I took laxatives before the operation, but it's possible I guess that there was some stool left in there (but it's unlikely that it was so much perhaps).
Would really appreciate hearing about your experiences here, I'm kind of freaked out now.