I am 59 year old male. I'm on day 11 from total hemmorhoidectomy, a lot of them ,thrombosed, internal, external, skin tags removed too. I started stool softeners, miralax, fiber..veggies, fruits, etc ..before surgery day. I always eat fresh fruits and veggies a lot anyway. Surgery day, no issue ,go home, day 2 no bowel movement yet, peeing becomes difficult. Day 3 i can't pee, waves of pain where it where i can't pass gas or stool..doc sends me to ER, catheter inserted, more incredible pain..waves of pain increasing in frequency from gas, rock hard stool not passing..I'm screaming at top of my lungs at peak of pain waves, and shaking from pain,they want a scan, I said it ain't happening without pain meds to stop shaking. Fentanyl nothing,morphine, nothing, dilaudud..finally got scan done..no ruptures...had to have someone manually dig out rock in my back side...then had to do enema which finally cleared out. Sent home, 3 days of crapping like a goose,ie: glad I had depends for males and a backup incontinence pad everywhere I sat or slept...if it weren't for sitz baths, I couldn't relieve and keep things clean. Today is first day with no pain meds. Between doctor, ER folks and me , we concluded all the heavy surgery medicine and trauma to that area made it not happy and work correctly. I wish on day 2 doctor office would have sent me to ER, because I knew it wasn't going well and not getting better in bathroom department....all that extra misery...I had a burst appendix, unimaginable pain, hyperventilating, shaking....that was NOTHING compared to poop and gas built up and can't go..waves of pain...I'm going ok now but burns like fire on back side, sitz bath to rescue. I hope the end result(pardon the pun)is good...2 weeks follow up this coming Tuesday...