Takedown on Tuesday

No need to use calmoseptine until after your first BM but use right away, yes! Take Charmin ultra soft TP as hospital TP is horrible. Remember to dab, not wipe, very important. Drink gatorade or whatever the hospital has for electrolyte replacement drinks, V-8 juice, and plenty of water and you should be out of there real soon.

Chew chew chew and don't eat any mushrooms, corn fresh veggies or fruits right off the bat. Baked chicken and mashed potatoes are a great go to meal.

I do hope you get weined off of the devil drug Prednisone ASAP, as well as the rest but please continue with VSL#3 DS.

I hope you have a successful and unevenful surgery and revocery! Please post back as soon as you can.

Good Luck!

I had problems with butt burn for about 6-9 months after takedown and it gradually faded away completely and I never have BB any more unless I drink hard liquor. I do not believe calmoseptine existed at that time, or if it did, I never heard of it. I learned through experience to use zinc oxide ointments that had a lower % of zinc oxide with 13% being ideal. The original Desitin is 40% and was too thick. It is totally trial and error as to what your individual butt and skin responds to, as it is with diet. But I agree with TE Marie on diet chew well and be careful with the typically hard to digest foods, like she mentioned.

Thank you for your reolies and advise, Marie and Barrister. I'll chew the heck out of my food and am ready to fight the butt burn. I hope it's an easy victory for me!

Marie - I am off all the drugs but I am continuing with the VSL. I need to update my signature.

Thanks again!

Good Luck on your takedown surgery. I will be one year out on the 18th of this month. BB was an issue for me and I use a bidet it really helps alot.If you can't use a bidet use a squirt bottle with warm water. I def stay away from foods that have alot of acid. tomato sauce does NOT work for me even now. Just take things slow and be careful what you eat even in the hospital they for some reason or another tend to serve us foods that we have NO business eating. And like everyone says chew chew chew!

If you find the Calmoseptine too intense then plain old Zinc Oxide works just fine. I favored Ferguson Formula (and I tried them all), but I seem to be the only one here who has anything to say about it. It really is mainly just a physical barrier to protect the skin, so it needs to be there before a bowel movement (or leakage, if applicable). If you miss one or two it might be uncomfortable, but it's not the end of the world. I probably used something for the first year, and then tapered off over the second year.

Good luck!