Having “worked on” literally hundreds if not thousands of bottoms, all female in my case, I found that docs were of 2 minds on healing. Some wanted as little bowel action as possible “while it healed”, and others, me included found it was better to keep things loose, like 421dog is advising. The messies can always be cleaned up, but there’s nothing worse than driving a solid log past a recently repaired bottom.
Sorry if this is all TMI, folks. Some of us made a living from this stuff.