Recovering from surgery kinda sad

I've been kinda blah lately and I've been having some questions run through my head.

How long after surgery should my strength come back? I've been so run down. Today I went grocery shopping with my fiancee and after walking through the food section, I had to go back to the car while she checked out.

Also I'm extremely skinny. Before my flareup I weighed around 175, then right before surgery 128, then when I was re-admitted because of the obstruction they weighed me at 109. I look like a drug addict :/

Another thing with the leaking, which I've got better at controlling, but I've noticed that I'm having "spasms". They seem similar to the spasms when I was flaring up but MUCH less worse. They only last about 3-5 seconds and they aren't even really painful, just annoying. I'm still having leaking at night and when I do feel the spasm and I go to the restroom nothing comes out. Is this normal and should I be worried about what will happen after takedown?

It's probably just me but I keep asking myself if I did the right thing. I mean, I went through an extremely horrible flareup where I wasn't able to hangout with my friends and couldn't eat anything, opted for surgery, and now after surgery eventhough my stomach doesn't hurt anymore my body does. Body aches and pains in the morning, no energy all day. That and I keep having this horrible cough and occasionally my nose will run and my ears feel "stuffy" (like when I talk sometimes I hear my voice echo in my ears and I can hear outside sounds until I stop talking).

lol guess I'm just being a worry wort :/ depression and anxiety do run I'm my family, but I've never wanted to get tested for that stuff.

It's just after being sick for so long...

In other news I ate fish last night and when I went to the bathroom this morning, oh Lord the smell LOL!

Our story is the same. My 18 yr old son weighed 109 after surgery and is 5'11" but in four months he has put on 30 lbs. It all takes time but it slowly does get better and better. You probably have a cold as well which can make the best of us feel like crap....take it easy, look after yourself, push yourself a little every day and before you know it it will be a few months down the road and you will not believe how much better you feel. You have to remember that your body has been very sick for a long time and then had the stress of major surgery...you do not get over that quickly.

As an aside...does your family doctor know that you are also sick with some sort of a bug? I would let them know. Depending on how long you have had these symptoms you could easily have a bacterial sinus infection that needs some antibiotics. Since your body has been under such stress it is common for the immune system to not be able to handle the infection.

Take is easy. You will feel better soon.

It just takes time. Your gut gets angry when you "play" with it. Really,  had a temp illeo in august 2010. Still waiting for flare to get under control to reverse it. But, after I healed from the surgery life is much better with the illeo. At night, don't drink or eat for like 2 hrs b/4 you g to bed. Also, set your alarm clock to go off every 2.5 hrs to empty. Talk to you woc nurse about leakage, I had a lot at the beginning, but after finding the right product ( convexity with belt) my leakage problems decreaed. With  the weight , I'm a female, but I started at 127 ... after the 1st weigh in after release from hospital I was 87lbs. Now I'm at 140, trying to get to 131 . Stay Up and give it a little time, Your body has been through a lot;

Like it's been said, BE PATIENT

You have been through a lot and it is true that it does take a full year for your body to recover!!! Every day will get easier and the leaks are probably a by product of the post op weight loss. Whenever your weight fluctuates the way the wafer fits can change...for me it can be as little as 5 lbs...and you've lost 20 since surgery.

Protein will help with healing and any time you've had a set back you kind of start over

Stay positive...you are on the road to a full recovery and great life ahead of you...and NO UC

+1 on wait for your stamina to return. It takes time. I learned to drive the scooters at Walmart really well during each recovery from surgery and walking through the grocery store was something I left to hubby for the first several weeks. I went from 165 (too much) to 123 before surgery, 113 when I got home (Jr High weight - which was a really really long time ago).

After surgery #1, once my small intestine started absorbing more food and fluids, I started gaining weight...very easily. It was a little harder with the loop but somehow I succeeded. I am a big cheese eater and really enjoy my potato chips so that might have something to do with it. Now a few months after takedown I gained weight with no problems and am trying to keep some of it off now. I eat throughout the day now but in the beginning I would take a whole day to eat a sandwich and I would eat it in quarters.

Also - the spasms are possibly just because your rectum still has UC and the blood from it is very irritating to the anus if I remember what my surgeon said. Basically he told me you still have UC in your rectum so you will feel like you have UC which for me also mean the spasms and bathroom visits with almost nothing coming out and I would have the urge to push. After doing this for a few days and just having mucus come out I would end up having a nice long sit on the toilet and relief would come as I would finally pass the blood that was causing the issue.