Recovering from ileostomy surgery again. Foods

I had surgery for a hernia repair, small intestinal stricture removal, removal of a segment of small intestine that bled so much that I had to have several blood transfusions and iron infusions, adhesion take down, and abdominal wall reconstruction, AGAIN!

I'm one of the lucky ones that has been plagued with hernias. Parastomal and other types of abdominal hernias.

I had surgery on November 16th.

The surgery was 8 hours long and I had to stay on the breathing tube for 24 hours due to breathing complications. They woke me up with the breathing tube and I had to wait 2 more hours for them to remove it. This was the scariest surgery I had ever had. I had fevers and was in the ICU for 4 days. Me and my family were just terrified.

I am now home and doing well and with the stricture removed, I have been experimenting with different foods. I have done ok with pickles, lettuce, apples, pears, lemons, and celery.

Well, last night I ate popcorn. Big mistake. I've been sick and nauseous all.day. I was having output this morning, but as the day has gone on, it is less and less.

I took extra zofran and I'm now drinking pickle juice and grape juice to try and clear the popcorn out.

I was doing so well eating all the foods I have been unable to eat in so long.

No more popcorn for me.

4me2 i have a hernia on my vertical incision.Going to see plastic surgeon Thursday then will schedule surgery.Hernia is high up on vertical incision,i should pull through OK.Hope your recovery goes well and i have not eaten popcorn in over a year since 1st surgery last January.One day ill be tempted but not yet

Mebythesea,

I would not recommend hernia surgery unless it's emergent. I'm full of scar tissue and the hernias always seem to come back. I also have chronic pain. It's awful.

I rarely visit this forum anymore, but glad I did today. I am so sorry you are going through all this!! Tracy, I made the big mistake of eating popcorn the day before New Year's Eve...OMG...NEVER EVER EVER again. I have been doing well with my stoma, almost nine years now. So, what did I do...try to screw things up! I had bad pain and noticed very little output and I usually have a fairly high output with my ileo I thought my husband was going to have to take me to the ER, one place I dreaded going on New Year's Eve. I kept a heating pad on my stomach and drank gallons of hot tea and cranberry juice. It finally corrected itself with a sudden burst of corn kernels that never get digested. After that, I had diarrhea for about 24 hours and some bleeding from the stoma. I was ok after a few days. Lesson learned. Don't ever eat popcorn again! Hopefully you won't need anymore surgeries girl. What is causing all those hernias? Do they know? Are you lifting? I was told not to lift more than ten pounds. Of course I don't take heed of that either because I have a ten month old grandson and he is a butter ball. I try to follow doctors advice though.