Greetings fellow ostimates, I find myself in need of some advice. Its been ten years since I had my colon removed and six years since I had surgery for severe blockages that was a complete success, BUT, for the last five years or so I've been having a real pain in the ass, let me elaborate, when I had the coloctomy the surgeon seemed quite pleased with the fact he saved my rectum and said rectum has a spinchter that is driving me nuts, so much so that while its working its impossible to urinate, so I sit there on the throne and wait and wait some more as that miserable spinchter goes through many cycles, just like the real thing but without the discharge until finally I give up and try again later, sometimes up to eight times a day and try to catch that moment when my spinchter is having a nap or getting ready for another round of beat the bladder spinchter and so far its winning even with the medications my doctor ordered, in a few weeks I have to have an ultrasound, after I drink three liters of water, which would not be a good time for that rectal spinchter to cut in, and believe me that is cause for concern. And after that I hope to see a surgeon, the only one I trust, and see if he can cut that sucker out as I cannot see it being any use in the future. If anybody has ever gone through anything like this or know anything about it I would be very grateful, thanking you in advance, Ed
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