@melissa111 posted:What medications are you currently taking, or have taken in the past few days? Have you taken any anti spasm drugs? Because when I got my pouch in 2012, the first two weeks after I was home from the hospital I was having this weird issue where my sphincter would spasm. It would get stuck in a squeezing position and I couldn't release it. I also couldn't pee.
Turns out both of these issues were caused by the medication I had taken. I can't remember the name of it now. It was something that the home care nurse suggested to my surgeon to prescribe, after I was home. She thought it would help because I was still having some pain from the surgery and she thought the pouch was cramping up.
I had no idea the medication was causing these issues and I thought I just had a problem related to the surgery. Then I went to a new gastroenterologist, two weeks later, that I hadn't seen before and told him about the peeing problem. He told me to stop taking the medication.
After I did that I could pee normally and the sphincter thing went away too.
Edit: This is another extremely important thing I forgot to mention. Are you taking Metamucil? Did anyone tell you to take it? Because if not, you need to talk to you doctor about it as soon as possible. Metamucil is an extremely important thing for you to have. My surgeon and his team never told me about it, but I got on it because another doctor at a second hospital I went to after my surgery, got me on it. I hate to think of what could've happened if I'd never known about it.
Metamucil just make my pouch function better in every possible way. It makes it so that instead of having to be on the toilet for an hour and have a bunch of little poops, I have one big solid one and get off the toilet in less than thirty seconds. It also makes my butt hurt a lot less and makes me not have to strain to get empty. And it makes me go, overall, less times throughout the day. It makes me feel, almost like I have a healthy colon. When I get lazy about taking the Metamucil, I definitely suffer for it. My pouch and my butt get all irritated and painful.
The dosing is kind of tricky, though. If you take to much, it'll actually make you poop to much and if you take to little, it won't do anything. You have to find just the right amount, a Goldilocks kind of thing. I take one heaping table spoon of it in a 12oz glass of water, as needed, but no more than that in 24 hours.
I'm just taking something called Tramadol 50mg and Paracetamol. When i read about the side effect it states that muscle spasm and trouble urinating is two of them. And they fit my timeperiod. I started using them two days after i got home from the hospital. Day three home i started getting spasms. Like you say, it's like the anus has locked itself in a closed position. I kinda doubt it would be this medication, but I will give it a try. But it's hard when I don't use pain killers...