I feel your pain Ron. I wish I could come up with a better method to evacuate my bowels. This has been one of the biggest problems I have had over the last seven months. I thought I had everything under control and then while my ex-wife (my Frau) was visiting me my bowels fouled up again. I went in to see the doctor and after a couple of visits he finally looked back at my last colonoscopy and discovered I have diverticulitis.
I have tried to adapt my diet to compensate for that problem and regulated my probiotics, but it seemed like if I get too much tomato products in my system it caused me problems. I am grateful the pain has diminished significantly over the last four weeks and I am optimistic this will continue if I try my best to stay on a decent diet. Quadius On 12/7/07, RONALD L PRACHT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well.......... > I do my bowell routine every other morning. I use majic bullets , > sometimes 2 if its goin slow. The night b4 a routine I start by taking a > lil bisacodyl pill, a couple majic cleanse capsules. Then I try to drink a > beer, eat a yougurt and eat a small bowell of raisan bran sometimes with > prunes. I drink alot of water and fluids during the day and eat plain > cherios most mornings. > > I do a couple hours of excercise at least 3 times a week maybe more if > weather allows. > > I think many folks have trouble because they dont do enough digital > stimulation........if your not going in 20 mins you may need stimulation to > break it loose. Also sit on the bowell chair long enough. > > Another thing you have to consider is you dont want your stool to > loose..........or too hard. Thats a struggle every quad goes through. I > always thought that with all the smart people out there we could come up > with a better method of evacuating bowells for paralyzed individuals. I > thought one time hell it would be nice to have some kind of a valve or > sureproof way to avoid accidents. Maybe an electronic implant to at least > tell you how full you are or even better some sort of stimulation electrodes > to get things going. > > Ive heard of some sort of flushing system you can do.........I think Dave > does something like that. > > Too me Im tired of hearing about b.s. about stem cell and all that......I > want to hear about better methods to live with the injury. > > Every person in a chair needs to get out intheir city or town and become > seen. This will force society to see us as real people with lives. In turn > more cures, drugs and methods will happen. > > > ron c7 >
