Hi. My mum had a UTI and 2 courses of antibiotics. She then got a big painful pile and stayed in bed in pain for a week.
My sister and I live 200 miles away but as my mum lived alone we stayed at her house to help. The 1st Dr said she had diarrhoea and the 2nd Dr said she was constipated and gave her laxatives, the 3rd Dr said just carry on.
Mum was up in the night every night between 3 and 10 times. Constantly cleaning her. As we wiped her more poo comes out. Poo on the floor, her hands, her feet.
We we're already looking at care homes as mum didn't recognise her home and has been packing and leaving to go home.
Me and sister both work and can't carry on cleaning poo from 200 miles away like the GP suggested. So we moved mum into the care home nearer us.
This constant toileting problem is still going on with poo coming out again as soon as she's been cleaned. Does anyone have any advice as to whether mum might be constipated with leakage, have diarrhoea or has become double incontinent. She has worn pads for a year due to urine accidents and now wears pull up disposable pants.
She had stage one colon cancer 33 years ago but there's no sign of blood.
Sorry about the gruesome details. I've discussed it with the home and her doctor and it seems to be a case of no answers just soldier on. At least now she's in a CH its not me cleaning up, but it's terrible and I can see mum is in pain, though she doesn't complain and can't really explain the pain.
Thank you for any help or sharing of similar experiences. Carpe Diem
It was a week since she took the laxatives but it feels like a year. Might it get better soon, will the laxatives still be causing this a week later.
My sister and I live 200 miles away but as my mum lived alone we stayed at her house to help. The 1st Dr said she had diarrhoea and the 2nd Dr said she was constipated and gave her laxatives, the 3rd Dr said just carry on.
Mum was up in the night every night between 3 and 10 times. Constantly cleaning her. As we wiped her more poo comes out. Poo on the floor, her hands, her feet.
We we're already looking at care homes as mum didn't recognise her home and has been packing and leaving to go home.
Me and sister both work and can't carry on cleaning poo from 200 miles away like the GP suggested. So we moved mum into the care home nearer us.
This constant toileting problem is still going on with poo coming out again as soon as she's been cleaned. Does anyone have any advice as to whether mum might be constipated with leakage, have diarrhoea or has become double incontinent. She has worn pads for a year due to urine accidents and now wears pull up disposable pants.
She had stage one colon cancer 33 years ago but there's no sign of blood.
Sorry about the gruesome details. I've discussed it with the home and her doctor and it seems to be a case of no answers just soldier on. At least now she's in a CH its not me cleaning up, but it's terrible and I can see mum is in pain, though she doesn't complain and can't really explain the pain.
Thank you for any help or sharing of similar experiences. Carpe Diem
It was a week since she took the laxatives but it feels like a year. Might it get better soon, will the laxatives still be causing this a week later.
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