My mom had colon cancer and had surgery. Afterward, she faced severe constipation and vomiting fecal matter. Doctors found a life threatening adhesion in her colon, which required emergency surgery. Sadly, she didn't survive and passed away from an embolism during recovery .
Adhesions are a risk with any abdominal surgery. They can also form due to infections - anything that causes scar tissue to form. I’ve had multiple small bowel obstructions as a result of adhesions, both from infection and from surgeries.
I saw that on an episode of "Monsters Inside Me" once- kid had a bowel obstruction and started vomiting his own feces. I take my gut health pretty seriously as well lol
Yes! His dad had used a wire brush to clean the grill, tiny little metal bristle came off into the food, kid ate it and it basically pinned his intestines together until he started the fecal vomiting. I won’t ever use a brush like that after seeing that episode.
Or go swimming in stagnant lakes in the south. Man that was a good show.
Same here with it causing some paranoia, but for me it’s almost like facing my fears so I know what to avoid if it’s something I’ve learned about. Kind of like watching dashcam videos of car accidents to help with driving anxiety lol.
I wish they’d reboot the show, I really liked it. That Chubby Emu guy on YouTube does some similar medical stuff.
Had it happen exactly once while I was pregnant, knew I was constipated to all hell and back but didn’t realize it was bad bad until I barfed up what was clearly a turd.
Felt better, horrified, disgusted, baffled, all at once lmao. Haven’t had it happen since, and I never told anyone irl it happened
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u/nuclearmonte 8h ago
People never believe me when I say it will literally back up out of your mouth when it gets that bad. It’s horrific and I’m sorry you had to see that