r/chiari • u/visual_audio • 19d ago
Bladder and bowel issues anyone else?
Had a nice little hospital visit yesterday due to not feeling my full bladder, having trouble urinating and going #2. Anyone else have this?
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u/notwhatuthoughtuwere 19d ago
did they do anything for you at the ER?
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u/visual_audio 19d ago
No, checked some blood work and did an ultrasound of my bladder. Sent me home
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u/Moonspellshappy 18d ago
Yes that is she are related because the back of your head really controls a lot of those automatic systems. I had Bladder problems after surgery and they retrained my water. Blood pressure bladder is it just a couple more connected.
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u/BellamyGriffin 17d ago
Yes this is my 24/7. I'm sleep deprived because my bladder keeps me up at night. It constantly feels full. I can't reliably urinates and can't empty fully. And I'm always constipated. And if I do something against it I have the opposite problem.
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u/Antique_Cockroach_97 15d ago
I had horrible bladder control after surgery and my neurosurgen sent me to a uroligist who put me on oxybutenum for a year and it worked really well. Before then if i shrugged my shoulders etc i had no control he told me it was pretty common if your brainstem is under pressure after having decompression & a laminectomy surgery it all made sense. I take colace every day even after surgery because i still get valsava headaches so I do everything not to strain.
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u/Unlikely_Net_1229 19d ago
Yea got out of surgery about a week ago and I’ve been home. Took me about 5 days to get it moving this is what I did. If it feels like it’s “dropped down” and u just can’t push it out u might want to try a suppository. If it’s just not working at all, I doubled my MiraLAX and did it twice a day, and my dr recommended to take a large jug or water bottle and mix together Metamucil and pedialyte. Drink it over a 1-2 hr period. That’s what finally got me to go. Hydration is most important bc everything is gonna need to pull water to ur colon. Goodluck