Wiping Question

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Hi,
This is a little embarrassing... but does anyone find that after they have a BM, they find that the wiping can go on forever? I am not sure if this is because I am not completely emptying out my bowel. Kind of a strange question, but I would appreciate your comments.
Mary

Yes I have to say that I have noticed this, its different then before I had the rectocele. I believe this is because I am softening my stool with drinking way more water, taking flax and benefiber. If it were a dry hard stool like it has been for most of my life it wiped up real easy.
Are you taking in more fiber ?
(yeah this whole thing is embarrassing, I wish I could go back to when I had never heard of a pelvic floor and cele's)

I am able to wipe better with the squatting position.
Hope this helps.
Callie

Mary,

I'm on my way out the door, just saw your post. Search the forum for a thread "endless wiping syndrome" or "sharing the wisdom" - you'll find some relevant comments there.

J.

get a squirt bottle and have a clean up that way- all that wiping is going to create irritation. Or you could use a wet cloth or even baby wipes but when this does happen to me (rare) I just get shower clean and move on. If it makes you feel any better - I some times have to wipe my kids more than once-

I'm pretty sure that's what it's from. Not positive though. When I was eating ground flax seeds, I had that in a really bad way. I stopped eating them and anything else that was a ton of fiber and it went away(for now anyway).

Buy those flushable wipes for those emergency times.

Yup I agree, those flax seeds are amazing. I was eating way to many !
I have cut back on them and its a lot better.

I just eat one banana dipped in a small bowl of the flax seeds each day. No more on my salad.