bathroom times

Hello everyone,

As most of you know I had 3 surgeries this year for my CD.  The first being an emergency resection that casued toxic megacolon when my colon didnt wake up.  Then I had an ostomy, wound infection and mult abscesses...2 total but the one on the right kept coming back. drain was placed abscess never stopped so I had my ostomy reversal at 4 months post op rather than 6 months.  That surgery was longer than expected, reversed ostomy, removed more of both intestines, removed abscess, removed adhesions, and had to scrape my abdominal wall since it was all infected from the abscesses. 

I had issues with C prior to my surgeries and my ileum perforating.  Since my Sxs I run to the bathroom lots.  I am hoping to go on questran soon to help with this issue.  My thing is though that I have more episodes before 3pm than after.  I may have only 1 BM if any after dinner until morning.  The past few nights I have woken up every couple of hours having the urge to go and only passing gas.  When the morning hits I finally go...and go more...and more.  I wake up late since I am home and got laid off so I tend not to eat until about 11:30 or noonish.  I have a few BMs before I eat and have a few after.  I just wonder why I have more boughts of D earlier in the day.  After I eat lunch it is only an hour at most before I am in the bathroom so why is it taking so long after dinner?

Dragonfly I meant to say the illeo-caecal valve removed. How I put it before didn't make sense, that's how most of my
day has been (smile).

dragonfly,

I that the illeo-cecal valve removed when I had my resection 3 1/2 years ago. I have lots more D since that surgery, sometimes up to 10 per day also the urgency is awful. Actually the surgeon took the transverse colon and the illeo-cecal valve.

I haven't taken the questran yet, although I do have some sitting in my cabinet. I have been playing with some of my scripts and have found that the bentyl has slowed things down some (4-5 a day).

Hopefully things will slow down for you very soon, keep us posted and hugs!!!!

  I have posted this befor, I have never seen any one else use it, I tried every thing, after having my valve removed, and I have only about a foot of large bowell left, I take Colestid, it is for reducing colestrol levels so my Dr. says it cant hurt you, It comes in a powder, and you mix it with water It works wonderful for me. I take it every morning, and usually have two bowell movement each morning about half hour between  each movement , and Im done for the day, until I found this life was miserable, I was afraid to get over 10 feet from a restroom. I have had CD for over 50 years , had 7 resections and probably 30 40 other surgerys, have every other sympton know to exist, but the last three years have been great.