Hi Everyone you are all so brave...I wish I was..I need an ileostomy for paralyzed bowel... my whole life I have had bad bowels...when I was 7 or so I didn't go for 2 weeks and got septic poisoning ..and then my mom started giving me milk of magnesia...and when I was a teen and 20's I just quit eating..people thought I was anorexic but now I know it just hurt too much to eat...so I have a great Dr. now who is willing to do the ileostomy.....and I am planning it for May o7.... I have alot of other health issues...and am scared...4 years ago I almost died from a very minor surgery so I am really freaked out....I am 43 and have arthritis through my whole body and had to have a bone scan today because I may have cancer in the bones...which spread from my breast...I have also had a hysterectomy 14 years ago....and after the hysterectomy my bowel was just paralyzed from spinal cord problems ..I have a herniated disk compressing my spinal cord at T7-8 so I am not sure if I can survive the ileostomy....it sounds like for even people who are otherwise healthy that it is quite a long time of recovery...please give me any words of comfort you can...also I saw someone on here that had colon inertia... could you please write me .....my email is
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