Hysterectomy and bowel problems:are they connected?

I had a total hyterectomy on June 25, 2014 and two days later I was back in the hospital with heavy pain especially where my incession when they cut me open.  After having a colonoscopy and endoscopy they found I have colitis.  I am either having bad bowel movement or I am constipated.  The doctor says it should clear up in three weeks.  Well, three weeks past I am still having the same problem.  I am not sure what to eat anymore or what to take.  I am taking fish oil and coconut oil as well as probiotics.  I will see if that works.

yes I just read your story. Yes I had a hysterectomy in every sense I had one I have problems with my bowels, my hysterectomy was March 8, 2013 today is July 24th 2014 I still suffer with the constipation the blurring of my stomach at one time I felt like I was carrying twins that's how big my stomach has gotten. l have had a series of test. I am so glad that I found this new GI, Doctor and Colon Doctor it seems like we are on the right track. I had this markers test and out of 24 I only passed one marker and the other 23 were logged on the left side. I did not have this problem before my hysterectomy. They are talking about surgery. I will cone back to let you know the outcome.

I was told by a few doctors that it might have been a result of too much antibiotics. I am not sure if this is true or not but still a lot of pain either from constipation or diarrhea.

my dr told me to take a tablespoon of virgin olive oil a day and I started and it helps ...............

Your surgeon might have torn a hole from your vagina to your rectum. This happen to me, but my surgeon told me of his mistake and stitched it. This happen in 2002. I think this is common in hysterectomy surgery by my doctor. I have met 4 other women who had the same doctor/surgeon as I. Did you have your surgery in oregon? I am now 43. I'm thinking, from your post, I need to worry allot more about the long term effect of my surgeons mistake. Thank you for your post. 

I had a hysterectomy in 2008. This summer ( 2014) they tried to give me a colonoscopy , but couldn't because of an unusual bend in my colon. I was then referred to a oolongraphy which is like a CAT scan after radioactive IV. Now the reason I am responding here is because the man who tried to do my comonoscopy mentioned that people who have hysterectomies often have their bowels drop into the area which then makes it impossible to go a colonoscopy. He said I should not have been referred for it given my hysterectomy. Now I had a colonoscopy the same year as I had my hysterectomy and there was no problem. I concluded from what the last guy said, that it is common for the bowels to drop down and cause problems and the reason they had no problem the first time was because the bowels had not yet dropped down. I imagine it is a gradual process not a sudden drop. So there must be research already to show this happens after a hysterectomy.

I have not spoke to my doctor again about having bowel problems, but I have since my hysterectomy in June of 2014. The cramps hurt so bad it curls me over. It is embarassing while I am at work. It makes me feel sick. And I ask the same question as you did something happen during surgery. And if so, what testing will show whats going on?

I had my radical hysterectomy 3 years ago.  6 months after the surgery I was rushed to the hospital with a blocked colon due to adhesions.  I had to have a colon resection.  Then I needed another colon resection.  This has resulted in fecal incontinence and inability to have a normal bowel movement.  This is for the rest of my wretched life.

I had my vaginal hysterectomy in Jan 2004, I had pain afterwards but seemed to be from the surgery. I started getting sick in Oct 2004 but mine was extreme abdominal pain, horrible diarrhea, and painful, foul smelling gas. I had tests done by Drs...finally diagnosed in May of 2005 after losing 15 pounds and being so weak I was shaking. I was still working around 58 hrs a week during all of this too! The Dr. that diagnosed me with Collagenous Colitis couldn't find a way to make me feel better so he sent me to Ann Arbor to Michigan State University to see a specialist there. He confirmed me illness and pit me on the kidney transplant med Imuran to suppress my immune system so it would stop attacking my colon......it worked for a while uuntil I was weaned off, had remission for about a yr but have been miserable since I've had the hysterectomy. My husband swears the hysterectomy caused my colitis. ..I have to agree since I had good jealth until the uterine prolapse caused me to get the hysterectomy.

I just read your post. I have not told anyone about having to push on my vagina muscles to pass BM. When I read your post I felt like someone understood finally! I had my partial in March 2010 removing my uterus only. It's been the constipation issue since. I have not seeked medical help due to embarrasement

I am having the same problems.. I seem to be going months without a bowel movement and its to the point where it's effecting my walking... I'm in so much pain I have to cry myself to sleep, I haven't gotten all those tests done yet but I will..

since my full hysterectomy I have had nothing but problems.I went from vagina dryness to vagina loosing and it causing nothing but problems for my marriage.My husband think i'm cheating It have cause my pelvis muscle to weaken,. my bladder to weaken.I'm stress out don't know what to do

I did have hysterectony laparoscopy the March 12 and when I did woke from surgery burning pain in my descendant colon and huge pain in my rectum. The rectum pain is gone but as soon I eat normally the crucial pain in my left colon flare up and when I stop to eat pain desepere and I go to the bathroom 4/5 times a day way to much for what I eat.

I sense a lot of frustration and confusion from women about pain after hysterectomy particularly on left side of pelvic region. I am 4 weeks post-abdominal hysterectomy and mcCall culdoplasty. Pain has been excruitating and there are some days I have no pain in my bowels, other days a great deal. I was in emergency yesterday after left side pain flared up so bad I couldn't walk and it hurt to go to the bathroom. What I do know from working in health care and with my own experience is that any type of abdominal procedure done, usually has people winding up with a condition called Irritable Bowel Syndrome. Anytime, doctors mess in the pelvic and abdominal area with procedures and surgeries.... you are at a 75% risk of developing Irritable Bowel Syndrome. My bowel problems began after an appendectomy at 14 when my appendix rupture. Every surgery I've had thereafter, triggers IBS and inflames my bowels. Additionally, all surgies come with a risk of developing adhesions or scar tissue which can also lead to issues with bowels and pain. What has significantly helped me through many years of chronic pelvic pain (and inability to take any medications for it) is diet. Eating a whole plant-based diet and really eating well and doing a lot of walking.

What I have is not IBS and I know about it because my sister has it since over 10 years and also my mother had Crown disease, my self 24 year I had ulcere in my left ascendant bowel witch was not diagnoticable of dissease (that was my Gastroenterologue words) after the treatment I never had problem since 24 years ago.
The problem that I have is definitively associate with Laparoscopy and if I would know how many women suffer bowel problem after the surgery I would ask to have my hysterectomy the old fashion way (I can ear what you gonna say, longer recuparation...)
It is not normal that I lost 19 pounds since the surgery and I felt for the first time the "post operation abdominal pain" 2 weeks after the surgery because my bowel crucial pain in the descendant colon was way more painful than the surgery "no wonder why I did not really feel post operation pain. 1 month before the surgery I had colonoscopy and verything was A1.
Where did you take your info of 75 % risk to develop IBS??? Mayo clinic, Web... all those site dont talk about that 75%???