Confused about operations

I have had two bowel resections and never had to have a temporary ostomy. Most don't have to have ostomies temporary or permanent. I think when you have to have alot removed they give you the temporary for a bit to help your intestines to rest and heal. I might be wrong, I am sure others will be along with their experiences. But just wanted to let you know the bag is more uncommon than common in a resection.

It depends on how much inflammation is involved.

It is much easier to hook two pieces of healthy intestines back together, than it would be to hook two pieces of inflammed intestines back together. I don't know if they would even try to hook up two pieces of badly inflammed intestines together?
They may end up having to take more out to find healthy tissue.

In my case, they went with an illestomy for one month, to let things heal up.
Then I had a second surgery to remove the illestomy.
It worked out well.

I had an abcess, which was the reason for surgery, and was 15.

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Sometimes it's to give a portion of the bowel a chance to heal, as in when you have fistulas that aren't responding to medications. So they will "bypass" a portion of the intestine to give it a rest. Sometimes there's so much removed from disease that they have to do an ostomy.

The bag surgery is called and ostomy.

If the colon (or large intestine) is not removed or completely removed or by passed, they can use part of the colon to bring to the surface of your abdomen, it's called a colostomy. If your entire colon is removed or bypassed for a "rest" they bring the small intestine to the surface, usually the ileum and it's called an ileostomy.

If a urinary tract is diverted to the surface to bypass your bladder, it's called a urostomy (which can happen with CD patients because of the high incidence of bladder fistulas).