Wow, what a story. I am truly sorry, that is awful.
I am on about the same bupe regimen as you, the only opioid I take is bupe and I take about 2mg split up into about 5 doses that I take throughout the day. I know that even with this relatively low dose of bupe really constipates me terribly.
The only thing that I have found that helps is that I use a fleet enema about 3 times a week. Let's say I use an enema on Monday- and ton of feces seem to be washed out of me. I will then start to feel a "clogged up" by Wednesday or Thursday. I will then use an enema again and wash out the feces that accumulated over the previous few days.
I know that using enemas this frequently can cause someone to become dependent on them and basically unable to have a bowel movement without one. Unfortunately, I suspect that this is a better option then simply letting nature take its course and possibly ending up with terribly impacted stool.
Does anyone know if I am doing any damage to myself by using fleet enemas (basically salt water enemas) this often?
I am also surprised that you ended up with such a serious problem. It seems like nearly every opioid user on this site complains that they only have a bowel movement like once a week or less. I just don't get why you had a problem considering the fact that you stated you have been going 2-3 times per week. So many ppl here claim they won't go for 2 weeks at a time!!!
Also, I am confused about how you were able to have ANY bowel movement when you had an impacted stool blocking the way. How were your feces able to get past this obstruction?
Lastly, what finally made you aware that you had a problem and needed to get checked out. What symptoms did you have, and how were they able to diagnose the obstruction? Colonoscopy?
Good luck and keep us updated.
Thank you for your concern.
First of all, I stated I was only going 1 time a week, not 2 or 3, I just said that if you are going 1-2-3 times a week only, you might wanna get checked out to be safe.....But I was only going once a week, sometimes less, for several months straight....so I was just being cautious and telling people that even if they are going 2-3 times a week, that they might want to be careful too. I think you just misunderstood a little, or maybe I wrote it in a way that was hard to understand, sry.
Also...the reason I was able to have a bowel movement at all, even if it was only once a week, was because it WAS the impacted feces that I was passing. Whenever I shit, it would be extremely painfull, difficult, slow, and the shit would be extremely hard and a little bloody.....so basically it WAS part of the poop that had been in there a while it just took a massive amount of effort to get even a little bit of it out. I was also on ungodly amounts of laxatives and stool softeners, etc....and that was probably the ONLY reason I was even able to shit once a week, otherwise I probably would have been COMPLETELY stopped up. And when I shit it was in tiny amounts, so I pretty much was 98% stopped up.
The reason i became aware of my serious problem was basically one day I woke up in the most severe pain of my life. i was screaming, crying, moaning, and begging for someone to kill me. The weird thing was though, it wasnt my gut that hurt, it was my lower spine/back. I felt like I broke my back basically. I couldnt stand/walk, I couldnt lie down in any comfortable position, I couldnt sit down in any comfortable position....basically I was in pure hell. I went to a chiropractor, and he diagnosed me with atrophied muscles around my lower spine because I was an athlete for 16 years and then the past few months(during my post heroin addiction stage) I have been very sedentary and havent done much because I didnt want to see old heroin buddies and get back in the game. Anyway, the lack of activity cause my muscles to atrophy(degrade) and they couldnt support my spine anymore and my discs were pinching together and causing SEVERE nerve pain.
I decided to go to a chiropractor 3 times a week instead of going to a doctor to get medications/painkillers because I knew I would get opiates and I dont want that. But, on my second visit to the chiro, I was in sooooooooooooo much pain it took me 15 minutes to walf 20 feet to the door of the chiro office, and thats with a big man helping me along. I was screaming and crying so loud because I have never felt pain like that before. I literally was thinking of ways I could kill myself quickly so I could end this hell. no joke. Anyway, the chiropractor took one look at me and told me to go to the ER cuz he said I shouldnt be in that much pain.
At the ER they did a CAT(spelling??) scan and it showed the massive fecal impaction and so they gave me a shitload of medical grade laxatives and stool softeners, etc.....and guess what....NO PAINKILLERS. I was screaming and crying and they refused to help me out because of my history of drug abuse. I was enraged beyond belief to say the least. I literally wanted to kill my doctor(s) and then kill myself because of the pain i was in. I cant stress enough how much this hurt.
Anyway, I eventuallly had to go back to the ER a few days later because the stool softeners werent doing anythign and I still hadnt had a bowel movement, and they basically had to manually remove it using a sort of un-invasive surgery......it was just over 5 ft long....the first couple feet was really black, hard, and dry poop(the shit that had been in there months), and then the rest was realllly soft and yellowish and bloody because that was the newer poop that had been effected by all the medications I had been taking.
Anyway, i was still in unbelievable pain but they refused to give me painkillers.
I literally couldnt eat for 2 weeks because of the pain and couldnt sleep for almost 2 weeks straight as well.....I lookedlike a zombie, and I had lost 15 pounds during the two week period.....which is odd cuz I hadnt been able to even poop, so you would think I would be gaining weight, but no, because of the intense pain, I was basically wasting away.
Anyway, its been a few days now and the pain is getting worse, so Im pretty sure my chiropractor was right about the muscle atrophy and I just happened to have fecal impaction at the same time....otherwise the pain would of atleast gone down by now. Anyway, I spend every day of my life screaming and crying and moaning in pain and begging for someone to kill me.....seriously people, this is the worst pain imaginable. It feel like I got shot in the spine with a shotgun, and then a bunch of people starting beating my spine with bats, and then i got an arrow shot into my back......and im not exxagerating....i want to die.
The only reason I can post for an hour or two a day is because I bought some klonopin off the street and use that to help relax my muscles so I can barely sit here for a short while each day to try and get my mind off of the hell im going through.
My parents are so afraid im going to die because i still havent been able to eat and have now lost 20 pounds total(down to 130 from 150 and im a 6ft tall male....so im extremely underweight). and I havent slept more than 2 hrs in about 15 days. I spend my time crying and wanting to kill myself because I cant afford to keep going back to these hospitals where they probably wont even help me anyway. They think im just trying to get a fix or soem shit, I dont know, but even when they see me crying in excruciating pain, they just shrug there shoulders and say I shouldnt be feeling like that and walk off. FUCKING PIGS!!
So as soon as my family gets enough money again, ewre going to go around to different hospitals and try to find one who will help me out. Cuz im seriously about to either waste away, or kill myself....theres only so much pain someone can take without deciding its not worth living anymore, and considering its almost been a month of hell, I would say I have been very strong and have lasted quite a while, but I will not last much longer.
wish me luck and sry for the long post.