I have a colostomy and I just had poo coming out of my rectum. It was like I was constipated, and then I had that happen. Not much, but I'm just curious.
I go for a colonoscopy tomorrow, so I'll see the doc. And no, I hadn't started prepping when this happened. :-)
It could have been mucus. My surgeon said that if I didn't irrigate the mucus every other week, it could harden and look like a bowel movement from the rectum. I have just started using glycerine suppositories for the mucus - it seemed to work better than an enema every other day. The suppository is lasting a week. My surgeon said that he has done reversals and the mucus is just stuck there in there and looks like a bowel movement.
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