hi so sorry for your problems. having an impaction is miserable.
i'm really surprised that the hospital didn't try to help you clear out the impaction--especially because you don't want this to develop into an obstruction.
of course, your doctor's advice is always best, but moviprep should help clear out the impaction since it's a colonoscopy prep. whenever i had an impaction, my gastro doc would send me for x rays and then, after looking at them, would tell me to take prepopik (another colonscopy prep) and a stimulant laxative (dulcolax). this combination always worked for me.
did you try a large volume enema--not a fleets. one time when i had an impaction and went to the ER, that's what the doc there told me to do because the xrays showed that i was impacted in the rectum, sigmoid colon and higher up.
once you get the impaction cleared out, it's a good idea to do what my gastro doc told me to do and take something daily--in my case it was a combination of both stimulant and osmotic laxatives-- to help you go so that this doesn't happen again.
and yes, sounds like going private is the best thing to do. you need to see a good gastroenterologist not a GP. gastro docs are more proactive about dealing with C than GPs are. and you want to find out why you're developing impactions so often. it could be that you have colonic inertia (slow transit constipation) . a sitz marker test (colonic transit study--sometimes called a shapes study) will diagnose this.
good luck. hope you can find some relief.
i'm really surprised that the hospital didn't try to help you clear out the impaction--especially because you don't want this to develop into an obstruction.
of course, your doctor's advice is always best, but moviprep should help clear out the impaction since it's a colonoscopy prep. whenever i had an impaction, my gastro doc would send me for x rays and then, after looking at them, would tell me to take prepopik (another colonscopy prep) and a stimulant laxative (dulcolax). this combination always worked for me.
did you try a large volume enema--not a fleets. one time when i had an impaction and went to the ER, that's what the doc there told me to do because the xrays showed that i was impacted in the rectum, sigmoid colon and higher up.
once you get the impaction cleared out, it's a good idea to do what my gastro doc told me to do and take something daily--in my case it was a combination of both stimulant and osmotic laxatives-- to help you go so that this doesn't happen again.
and yes, sounds like going private is the best thing to do. you need to see a good gastroenterologist not a GP. gastro docs are more proactive about dealing with C than GPs are. and you want to find out why you're developing impactions so often. it could be that you have colonic inertia (slow transit constipation) . a sitz marker test (colonic transit study--sometimes called a shapes study) will diagnose this.
good luck. hope you can find some relief.
