Bariatric Surgery No Panacea for Fecal Incontinence

What is that smell? Time for fat people to fill-out environmental impact statements.

"Fecal incontinence, common in patients undergoing bariatric surgery, appears to worsen for many after the procedure, a researcher said here.

When surveyed a mean of two years after gastric bypass or banding, 51.2% of 194 patients who had liquid fecal incontinence prior to the procedure said it had gotten worse, said Erica N. Roberson, M.D., of the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wis., at Digestive Disease Week sessions."

"Liquid fecal incontinence" is when fluid-y stool squirts/drips out your butt-hole into your underwear, pants, down your leg, etc., without your telling it to.

"Similarly, about half of patients who had solid fecal incontinence before the surgery also said it had worsened afterwards."

"Solid fecal incontinence" is when chunky stool squeezes its way out your butt-hole into your underwear, pants, down your leg, etc., without your telling it to.

Basically, fecal incontinence is when your sh** has a mind of its own and its mind tells it to take a look outdoors and roam free.

"'This is an underdetected population,' Dr. Roberson said. 'Nobody really talks about incontinence enough in these patients. They don't tell their doctors about it, and their doctors don't ask them about it.'"

"Undetected," that is, unless you use the sniff test. No need to ask.

"Urinary incontinence was also frequent, reported by 73.4% of the respondents, but three-quarters said it had either improved or not changed after surgery."

"Urinary incontinence" is the same curiosity of the outdoors displayed by your crap for fecal incontinence except executed by your piss.

It is another way fat people generate their own aromatic environment.

"He speculated that the worsening incontinence seen in Dr. Roberson's survey may stem from permanent damage beginning when the patients were still obese.

John M. Morton, M.D., Ph.D., a gastric surgeon at Stanford University, said if that's the case, 'it's going to be difficult to overcome even with weight loss.'

He added that diarrhea following bariatric surgery is a known issue. 'It probably relates to the diet. Patients are completely changing what they're eating, more protein-based and certainly more of a liquid consistency afterward.

'We always do a rectal exam before surgery, but this study may prompt us to take a little closer look at it and maybe find different ways to help people afterwards,' Dr. Morton said."

YOU "take a little closer look," doc.

Beware of "Incomings!"