Amusingly, the legs and arms take a back seat to my bowels--I thought that I'd be keeping a noble stiff upper lip about all the broken bones, but instead I moan and whine about intestinal matters.[/quote]
Well as a gastroenterologist I can say that at least you are gaining an appropriate sense of what is important!
Impactions are no fun. Your description is accurate... sometimes they paradoxically produce diarrhea. Happy to discuss the physiology with you, but I suspect your mind is on more practical issues. A word to the wise... stay on the "easy passage" side, whatever it takes. If someone warns about becoming "laxative dependent" then ignore them, at least for the foreseeable future.
