My son is 7 and has been constipated pretty much since he was born. I've been asked if he pooped right after birth and honestly I can't remember, but I'm sure if he didn't that the midwives and I would have noticed. I do remember taking him to the pediatrician at 4 months because he was going 3 weeks or more between bowel movements. The pediatrician just said it was physically impossible for breastfed babies to be constipated. He would scream off and on for 24 hours before he went and his whole body would go rigid. He has been on miralax before, but he seemed to be getting better. I haven't really kept track of bowel movements the last few years because he wasn't complaining.
A few months ago he started peeing a lot. His pede was out of town and one of the other dr's ordered a glucose test. It was normal. I took him in to talk to his pede and she said she was positive he had a urethral stricture. It's a long story, but it took almost 2 months to get him into a specialist. The peeing started around 6 weeks before. WHo knows how long before we actually noticed.Three weeks ago we saw his pede and I told her he was peeing less often, she said his stricture was getting tighter. Two weeks ago he tried to pee and it took three tries before he was able to get anything out. So she had us drive 3 hours to the Children's hospital ER. The did an x-ray and said he had an almost impacted colon. He was peeing by the time we got there, so they refused to let us even speak to the urologist. They sent us home with a heavy duty miralax regimen.
We finally saw the pediatric general surgeon yesterday. He was so wonderful. He actually listened to us. I explained everything to him. THe peeing, the er visit, constipation since he was a tiny baby. I said someone had suggested Hirschsprung's and he said that was exactly what he was thinking. He asked us a bunch more questions and kept shaking his head saying ds should have been tested years ago.
Mon ds has a barium enema and the following mon he has the stricture surgery and a rectal biopsy.
Does anyone else deal with this?
A few months ago he started peeing a lot. His pede was out of town and one of the other dr's ordered a glucose test. It was normal. I took him in to talk to his pede and she said she was positive he had a urethral stricture. It's a long story, but it took almost 2 months to get him into a specialist. The peeing started around 6 weeks before. WHo knows how long before we actually noticed.Three weeks ago we saw his pede and I told her he was peeing less often, she said his stricture was getting tighter. Two weeks ago he tried to pee and it took three tries before he was able to get anything out. So she had us drive 3 hours to the Children's hospital ER. The did an x-ray and said he had an almost impacted colon. He was peeing by the time we got there, so they refused to let us even speak to the urologist. They sent us home with a heavy duty miralax regimen.
We finally saw the pediatric general surgeon yesterday. He was so wonderful. He actually listened to us. I explained everything to him. THe peeing, the er visit, constipation since he was a tiny baby. I said someone had suggested Hirschsprung's and he said that was exactly what he was thinking. He asked us a bunch more questions and kept shaking his head saying ds should have been tested years ago.
Mon ds has a barium enema and the following mon he has the stricture surgery and a rectal biopsy.
Does anyone else deal with this?
It sounds like at last you'll be getting some much needed answers.
But then 2wks turned into 3, and then into 4...we tried massage, chiropractor, reg ped, specialists...nothing worked. ONce he turned 1 I did give solids....even tho I was worried it would get worse. It was at this time that we did start Miralax. We've weaned him down a couple times with some success...but I can't let him go longer than 3 days of no pooping before I feel I need to give him Miralax. I just can't let him go thru that constipation.
