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Posted 4/29/2010 12:16 PM (GMT 0)
Tracy, yes, mine was weird too!! My diagnoses was internal rectal prolapse, and mechanical obstruction cause by a sigmoidocele and redundant sigmoid.

I can't wait to hear what your dr says.. to me, it looks like you probably have a lot of redundance and also a prolapses internal rectum (like I did) This is basically what I had - but our photo's look different. That curve in mine the redundant sigmoid.. and everytime I tried to poo, it was blocked off at entrance to the rectum, getting things stuck high up. Yours looks like it is folding at the very bottom - blocking everything (probably the reason that once it gets there, you have to manually remove it) but you feel a blockage higher up - I did too!! I could not get it to the rectum, but now with the resection - I do not get that feeling. It very likely may be another section in the sigmoid as well (most common area) causing this for you.

Multi-issues - multiple procedures. I had to have the twisted and redundant sigmoid out, and because my rectum itself was redundant and prolapsed - they had to remove some of that and then the rectopexy was to secure it back into position. I honestly feel that I'm not "blocked" and thankfully - the MiraLax is moving things along!! I DO wish he checked more into the slowness of my colon and I wish I insisted he remove the redundant part of the transverse (leaving me a normal looking colon) but I didn't and I think I will forever stay on MiraLax because it is slow.. but it works, and I'm okay with that! I mention a book my uro-gyn encourgaed me to get because it worked for one of his patience.. but it is just another book of taking a fiber supp, eating hig fiber cereals.. just a bunch of crap for me, as I have tried ALL those things! I eat 40gm of fiber a day - and I'd stop dead in my tracks if I stop the MiraLax. The book says it works for 90% of people - well.. I know I'm one of the 10!

MiraLax takes 3 days for me to kick in!

My hubby just had a colonoscopy - and I was curiuos on how long it would take him to start pooing again after he started eating. I KNEW it took me 8 days to have a poo after I was totally empty..AND taking laxatives all those days. He went in 24 (TWENTY FOUR) hours!!
Posted 4/29/2010 12:50 PM (GMT 0)
Jenise,
I'm just curious. When you take the miralax every day, how often do you go? I take it first thing in the morning and again around 6 pm. I go a few times in the morning (very small amts) and after dinner I may go as many as 10 times, but only little bits at a time. I've tried taking lesser amounts, and even only once a day but then I get bound up and get that horrible rectal pain. Then sometimes, in the middle of the day if I eat, I may not go, but just get the pain, There is no rhyme or reason that I can figure out. It's a full time job trying to poop!

Going to call for my records today so i can compare my pics, too. I know most of my problem is in the rectum because an enema helps alot when I'm so uncomfortable.

Janie
Posted 4/29/2010 12:58 PM (GMT 0)
Janie, I'm only taking 1 dose in mid morning. I usually go one a day, some times 2 times a day.. sometimes just a little - sometimes a lot, and some days I don't go! There are days when I go, and I have to keep going back because I don't feel empty - and I keep going little bits. AND to add to my mix - there are days when I feel I have to go suddenly! I think we've talked on here how some of us never use a public bathroom, I never have - never had to go before.. but I do sometimes get a sudden urge and I have to go! LOL no rhyme or reason either. I do need to use a fleet glycerin almost always to go.

I can tell you - I do not have any rectal pain, that is something you have mentioned before, and I don't have a clue what could cause that. Hope you can post your pictures too!
Posted 4/29/2010 2:29 PM (GMT 0)
Janie, I think you need another defogram. Something isn't right! Going small amounts all of the time is what I do and I have a colon. Has your doctor suggested more testing? I wonder if you could possibly have rectal intussesecption or a rectal prolapse.
Posted 4/29/2010 3:18 PM (GMT 0)
Jenise, I just went and read about meacolon, megarectum, and you have to go read this. It is scary because there is really no "quick fix" for these conditions. I think I may have this from years of being constipated and I have read that a hysterectomy can make the rectum larger due to it being a very pliable organ that will fill up the empty space. My rectum looks much larger than yours to me. And why does it just end like that at the top of the xray picture.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1357059/

Just go read this article.
Posted 4/29/2010 3:31 PM (GMT 0)
Jenise, here is another article....

http://www.ispub.com/ostia/index.php?xmlPrinter=true&xmlFilePath=journals/ijs/vol3n2/hemicolect.xml
Posted 4/29/2010 4:26 PM (GMT 0)
I wish I had my pictures for all of you....so you could see what true anismus looks like or rectal inertia as many of you still have so many issues, but unlike you ememas and miralax did not help me....

I have surgery a week from today and I leave in 6 days...i cant even believe it. I am SO down and my hubby is going to be gone all week. There has been so much family drama I have just been trying to help my mom and then get home. I have had such bad leaking around this temp tube for over a week and a half...everytime I eat anything....its horrible and so is my skin. I am going to try some cream as the powder helped but every 3 hrs I have a huge pile of either sl loose or very loose stool just sitting on my skin. I am so very frightened for this surgery, to be open wide open again and to just be under again so soon......number 5 just is not giving me the best of feelings. I should be used to this by now. I miss you all and hope youall get your defograms figured out...I have never seen my before. I could request them for you al lif you wanted me too....but I definately know I had "no ability to empty rectal vault" and rectal inertia.

I am praying for all of you to get everything figured out. I hope Gilda is doing well, I heard from her the day of surgery and she was ok, but with good pain medications. I think of you all so much and wish that even though miralax gives you some relief you still plan your lives around the bathroom.....makes me just cry that this is what lives have become.

Anyways,

I have to shower and decide if I am going to leave the house today.....I have to get some gifts for a baby shower I have Sat, but I always have tomorrow. Hope you are all having a blessed day. Pray for me if you can and any texts of encouragement would be lovely as I keep sinking lower and lower as the days approach.

Lizzie

Posted 4/29/2010 10:17 PM (GMT 0)
Lizzie ((HUGS)) I didn't realize you having yet another surgery!! You will be in my prayers!! I just don't know how bodies can go through so many surgeries!

Tracy, I need to sit and read the articles! I think it could be VERY likely you could have a megarectum.. it can be caused by tears of constipation. Do you remember the impaction I had when I had my surgery? The surgeon commented that my rectum was "large" - but didn't actually use the term "mega". I do know he was amazed at how much was stuck there!
Posted 4/29/2010 11:17 PM (GMT 0)
I totally forgot to call for my records today. I actually have most of my records, just not the films and the last couple tests. I haven't seen my dr. in almost 6 months but am going back in June.

Jenise, the rectal pain is actually pressure from having stool that won't come out. Even if it's a little bit, I get alot of pressure and pain and an enema will empty me out and make it better.

My doctor never said anything about prolapse, just that I had pelvic floor dysfunction and a small rectocele. I wish it was something that could be fixed. While the miralax does make me go, it makes me go so many times with so little each time. I do eat pretty much; not alot during the day, but when I get home from work I eat a pretty large dinner and usually snack alot....I'm sure if I didn't eat as much I wouldn't go so much....but by the end of the day I'm so hungry!

And I've totally gotten over the bathroom thing, I just let it rip now. I don't like it, but when you gotta go, you gotta go!!

Lizzie,
Try to get some strength back before surgery honey. You've been doing more than you should, try to rest before next week. I'm thinking about you!

Janie
Posted 4/30/2010 1:26 AM (GMT 0)
Hi All,

Am back from the high seas and 14 days of non-stop dance lessons and night dances. Am exhausted but had a super time.

I sweated so much that I have a skin lesion under the paper part of my flange. Tomorrow when I change my bag I have to put a piece of kleenex between that part of my skin and the paper part of the flange so that nothing will be touching that area. I sure hope this heals. Have never had skin issue before other than a tiny burn right under the stoma due to cutting the hole in the wafer a bit too large.

Having an ileostomy sure isn't easy, but as long as my inner-workings stay free of adhesion obstruction, I can deal with the rest.

Lizzie, Hang in and rest. I totally understand your emotional need to help family, but right now it's all about YOU. (That is what a friend I met on the ship told me.) "It's all about you." Sounds selfish, but it is not. WE are the ones in need. Do what you can for others but rest because you have only one body and it needs to be in as good shape as possible entering surgery. It seems like all our surgeries beget more surgeries to fix what went wrong in the previous surgery. We all seem to be trapped in a loop. You have company.

Gilda, hope the surgery went well. Jenise best of luck. Janie, Tracy, and all others, thinking of you. Gotta get some sleep. Am exhausted.

Take care, Rosemary
Posted 4/30/2010 1:37 AM (GMT 0)
Jenise,

Good job with Picasa posting those pics. Don't those show anismus? Rectum not straightening for defecation; stays angled at all times?

I too am baffled as to why your surgeon would not remove the redundant transverse colon unless he would have had to make 2 joinings (2 anastomoses) which would increase your risk of stricture or leak. That may have been the reason.

Good luck with all of this. Rosemary
Posted 4/30/2010 6:21 AM (GMT 0)
Hi my suffering sisters! I just read thru 2 pages of your posts and I wish so much there was a way to make all of these horrible problems just "go away" and let us all just live our lives without thinking about "pooping!" I was glad to read that Rosemary has been having fun on her cruises; she is an inspiration to all of us. I also have texted Lizzie recently and that made me feel closer to her. Lizzie, I am praying for you every single day! I am amazed at all of the things you have done recently Liz; like helping your mom out so much, taking care of your sisters' kids, throwing a "baby shower?" Do take it easy, girl, you really need to rest! Now speaking of taking it easy; I had surgery for a small bowel obstruction on Tuesday, got out of the hospital today and went for about a 2 mile walk with my husband a few hours after I got home from the hospital! What an idiot I was. I knew it was really dumb to go walking but I did it because I was depressed. Now one of my stitches ripped out and I am bleeding! It is 11:08 p.m. California time so I am not going to call my doctor. I think I will be o.k. just by putting a bandage over the incision (one of the 4 small laparscopic incisions) and as long as it quits bleeding I should be o.k.; don't you think so? I know that it seems impossible that I was only in the hospital for 1.5 days after my surgery but my doctor said he had taken care of the "blind loop" and I could rest at home as well as at the hospital. They gave me some soft food Wed. evening and then i was up all night at the hospital with diarrhea; which has been my problem ever since my subtotal colectomy in April '09. I thought that maybe the doctor had finally fixed my problem and as soon as the diarrhea started up again, I started to get very depressed! That's why I wanted to just walk and walk (after taking a Vicodin to constipate myself). Anyway, I sure hope I didn't do any damage to myself by already ripping out a stitch! Do you think I should immediately go see my surgeon? It will be a huge hassle for me to do so tomorrow so I am hoping I will be o.k.. Thanks for listening and thanks for everyone's good wishes regarding the surgery. My doctor reassured me that i won't feel so ill all of the time now because I am not constantly getting infections (blind loop really more like a ballooning out of part of small intestine near the ileo-rectal anastamosis). He also thought the diarrhea would go from 15 + times/day to more like 8 times/day. When it started up so soon after surgery again (the diarrhea); I felt so darned depressed. I guess I shouldn't give up; he said it might take some time to slow down. Anyway it is weird how I had "colonic inertia," then a subtotal colectomy and now uncontrollable diarrhea! It is all pretty hard to deal with but what other choice do we have? Maybe in time my bowels will "slow down" which would make me very happy!

Thanks for listening!

Gilda
Posted 4/30/2010 3:29 PM (GMT 0)
Oh LORD GILDA,

Was your small bowel obstruction from adhesions by any chance? Or was it from the ballooning out of the intestine above your ileorectal anastomosis?

Sure glad they could do it laporoscopically.

It is Friday, so my advice on the ripped stitch is too late. BUT, I have found if I have any questions any time day or night, I would call your surgeons number. These docs all have people on call who could answer any questions you have and are worried about regardless of the time. They do get paid for on-call time. I understand your hesitency to call due to the hour, but you are the patient. It is your body.

Best wishes for your recovery.

Rosemary
Posted 5/1/2010 1:52 AM (GMT 0)
Gilda,
So sorry you're still having problems. Seems like there are only a few of us with colon inertia who actually had a "successful colectomy". I'm sure there are lots out there, but if you're just reading here it sounds like surgery either worked too well (diarrhea) or not enough (those of us who still have problems going). I'm sure someone has asked, but are you taking lomotil? Does that work at all?

Rosemary,
So glad you had such a great time on your cruise, but it's good to have you back.

I called the hospital today and they are going to put my scans on a cd. I'm not sure when I'll get to Orlando to pick them up, but as soon as I do, I'll try to post my pics, too. I'm anxious to see them.

Hello to everyone else!

Janie
Posted 5/1/2010 3:18 AM (GMT 0)
Gilda- I would just call to be safe and I too, feel very close to you....I hope you doing well tonight and that the diarrheas ceases. It crazy I would have given anything for that and at the same time it cuases so many issues. I love you and hope you well....hope to hear from you soon.

Judy- Thanks for calling me today, i was in the mall trying to get a gift for the shower tomorrow and since being home have been in bathroom 6 times with leaks around my tibe and bleeding skin. It was so wonderful to hear your voice and I as welll pray for you constantly. Yo are amazing hope your doing well.....i love you.

As for me, the lst two days have been miserable. I have been a crying mess, so scared for surgery....I have had so many leaks (reminds me of my retracted ileo) and my skin is just as bad. I need all of you this next week....I hate to ask or burden you, but besides family and my wonderful husband your all I have and I feel lower than low. I am starting to isolate and just cry and feel very depressed. I am so scared for another major operation....i leave at 5 am Thursday am for pre-op and i will bring my computer with me so I can update or my mom or husband and you all mostly have my number.

Love you.

Lizzie

Posted 5/1/2010 3:47 AM (GMT 0)
Lizzie,

Praying for you. So in this surgery they are going to try and fix your slipped valve? If they can't do it, will you get a new ileostomy stoma (made correctly) so no skin issues this time? Is that their plan?

Best wishes for some peace and rest before Thursday. Rosemary
Posted 5/1/2010 7:12 PM (GMT 0)
hi girls, i havn't posted in so long.. just needed some time to figure things out. i had pear juice helping a lot for a while, but unfortunately, it's not helping anymore. i've started normalax (miralax) today, taking it twice a day, i hope it helps. but honestly, there's nothing - no med in the world that can give me a quality of life, cause it's either i'm totally constipated or i find something new to help, but it bounds me to the b/r for too many hrs a day. and..... on top of all this, i'm starting to have incontinence issues too, and it happened too often in the past week and bigger amts :( so i've been thinking and rethinking and was discussing this over and over with my mom and we've both agreed i should have the ileostomy. i'm seeing my surgoen May 10 to discuss this. i can't believe it has come to this.. i just hope a stoma can give me a better quality of life. Lizzie, it was so great to talk to you on the phone. after corsponding for so long to actually hear your voice.. awesome! you know how much i love you, how much we all love you and care for you. you're NEVER a burdon, honey! my heart just breaks for you. i'm praying for you sweet Lizzie! Jenise, i can't believe it anothre surgery for you too.... i hope things work out best. Tracy, can you send me you pics to [email protected] ? i'm very interested to see them. anyways i'm SO SO happy it's not anismus and there's a chance to fix your rectum.. you may not need a bag after all, i truly hope so. Janie, hope you're still managing. i havn't posted in quite a while, true, but not a day goes by w/o me thinking of all of you girls, you girls are always on my mind. i just hope we can all find peace of mind.
Posted 5/1/2010 8:11 PM (GMT 0)
Hi Hodaya,

Glad to read your post. Just yesterday I was going to post "Hodaya come back." But then I was thinking she will when she is ready and there you are :-) Glad to hear from you.

When you go to your doc, go through your tests and see if you have an enterocele (loop of small bowel) descending and sitting on your rectum. This is all I really had and, as you know, it was not my sigmoid colon that was prolapsed and my original surgeons removed the sigmoid anyway (more procedures more dollars) Hard to believe but that is the point my suit is at now since the expert reveiw phase. Anyway I had similar symptoms as you (only I had my colon) and what I had was the loop of small intestine only that descended and hit the rectum. All that needs to be done for this is closure of the space between the rectum and the vagina so the loop of small intestine cannot fall down on the rectum anymore. The rest of our case may not be the same (as my colon was in me and worked well) but this occurred to me as I read your post.

Explore this prior to getting the ileostomy. But if the ileo is the route you go, you should do well if the stoma is made correctly (should come out like a little spout) so the poop goes into the bag, not down the skin under the wafer. Having it made correctly is crucial. So talk to your doc about this too. I can certainly tell you all about the products and the procedure of bag changes and so on as I sure have experience.

Great to hear from you. Sincerely, Rosemary
Posted 5/1/2010 9:49 PM (GMT 0)

Hi my very special friends!!!

It's soooo good to hear from you Hodaya; I continue to pray for you and have been very worried about you.  I agree with Rosemary, at least ask your dr about what she said before asking for a ileo.  You need to try EVERYTHING before you give up and go for the end.  I know you're very frustrated and you want an end but what if something would work and you went for a more drastic measure?  When I continued to have difficulties at the end of last summer with my kidney, my urologist said I might just as well take it out and I said do anything to get me through the school year and then we will decide.  That's when we went with all the stents and yes it was a very difficult year but it gave him the time to think things through, research and try something that, thank God finally WORKED!!!!!  I am now stentless, it was touch and go for a couple of days and there is a stricture but my kidney functions perfectly, it is now just hypersensitive due to having a stent in for almost a year and I have medication and exercises to help decrease the sensitivity.

So please go through every option first, because there is ALWAYS HOPE!!!!!!  I know I keep telling you all that but have faith and keep praying and believing. Since just before my colectomy, I have surrounded myself with positive, believing, faithful people and it has made a tremendous difference in my life.  I can't be around negativity anymore and things that aren't good for me. It has caused a lot of friction and hurt with some family members and some of them just don't understand; but when your own mother tells your daughters your addicted to pain pills, well, that's what I mean when I can't be around people like that because I interalize everything and it just makes me sicker.  Although I would like to tell her, "Oh, by the way, I went from taking vicodin every 4 hours for almost a year to not taking any in one day, so yes Mom I am addicted aren't I!"  But some people have know clue!

Go with positive thinking and if any of you get a chance; go to youtube and listen to Shawn Galloway's I Choose Love 2, very inspirational.

Lizzie-slow down and build up your strength; you so need it; I know this is hard to do but I know this is how I made it through twelve surgeries in just one week short of one year.  I had to let others do just about everything or I NEVER would have made it.  You need your strength; we are all here for your support but we can't help your body.  STOP doing for others!!!!!!!  I love you so much Lizzie; you've got to be good to yourself, you need some strength. Praying so much for you.

Tracy and Jenise-will keep on praying for you and hope find painfree days until your surgeries. Hugs and love girls

Marisa-Hoping you are doing well and having fun. Love you:)

Janie-Always in my prayers. I hope that the miralax continues to work though I can truly understand your frustration with the small and frequent bms it produces.  I truly hope and pray you will get some answers and relief from someone.

Rosemary-Thank you for always being a driving force on here; it's what everyone really needs and you are truly a blessing:)

Just a couple of last good things I have to share because I know I've rambled way too much; I know I've said many times you need to keep searching until you find the right drs and you all know I've had many GIs & urologists.  But I just wanted to tell you about a couple of things that confirmed I definitely that I do; after I got my stent removed, some things developed and I needed another surgery.  It was at the end of the day and my dr made arrangements for emergency testing, admitting, and waited until 7pm to do my surgery, all the while phoning me personally to tell me what to do & where to go; then meeting me on the hospital floor where I was admitted, explaining numerous options & then putting in my IV because I'm an extremely difficult stick and the nurse had blew my vein big time.  He went way above & beyond, then said if this doesn't work he will send me anywhere to get another opinion.  Then to top it off, we were on our way home the next day & my GI called me & said he saw I was admitted to the hospital and wondered if I was ok.  I told him yes, it was kidney related and thanked him for calling.  So, that's when you know you have the RIGHT drs; ones who truly care about you and will go out of their way for YOU.

If you haven't found that doctor yet, find HIM/HER!!!!!!!

Love you all and praying ALWAYS,

Judy

Posted 5/1/2010 11:54 PM (GMT 0)
Judy,

NICE post! I too have given up the negative people in my life and am only in touch with the positive people. We have all been through soooooo much that we are now the ones who deserve the caring from others. Like a male friend of mine I dance with on these cruise ships says, "From now on it's all about you." This guy has been amazingly supportive, is a friend, and has heard my story. He says many things that really hit the nail on the head, this being one of them. He also talked to me about getting the "fear factor" under control regarding my worry about adhesion reobstruction. He said save all that worry energy to use IF it ever happens again. If it doesn't I won't have wasted the energy. I never thought of this worry as a mis-use of energy but it is. He also said, like many have, that being given false information about my original issue in 2006, lead me to make the wrong decision. Had the information from the medical people I saw been correct, I would not have made the choice I did. Obvious, but something in about the way he said it really helped it sink in to my mind. Maybe I was finally ready to integrate all this (after 4 years, it is time, but we all come to terms with things in our own time.)

Glad your stents worked and you found docs that really care. I got a call from Lahey the other day and the message just said they had some news about my ileo surgeon who saved my life. The message was late Friday. I hope nothing happened to him. Or maybe he may be retiring. It made me nervous. But I will call on Monday. He does have many colleagues that are very knowledgeable and some with some incredible experience, but not the years he has. But, we shall see. I'm making GOOOOD use of the time he has given me and sure hope it continues.

Rosemary
Posted 5/2/2010 12:22 AM (GMT 0)
Judy, I am so glad you got the stent removed...is the pain gone now?

Hodaya, what is your email address again...I tried to send it to the one you posted, but it was returned and said bad email.
Posted 5/2/2010 3:25 AM (GMT 0)
Rosemary, Judy, thanks so much for your support and concern. i had a defogram a week ago and if i had an enterocele, it would have been shown on the test. the defogram showed i have a 2 cm rectocele and a pelvic descent (sp?). those are not significant and the empting was good. so if the rectum's ability to empty is rather good, then i don't know where the prob could be.. all i know is that it can't be solved. Judy, having such caring drs is so important and i'm so glad you have them. SO SO happy you got that stent out and most importantly, it worked! can't describe how happy i am for you and i shal keep praying you keep doing well. Tracy, you're right.. my mistake, it's [email protected]   i don't know how i could forget my own email love you girls!
Posted 5/2/2010 3:58 AM (GMT 0)
Hodaya,

Glad you're back and I'm not trying to talk you out of the ileostomy. But I'm trying to help you brainstorm ideas. So my question is, is if you have just a small rectocele and minor pelvic descent that are not significant, AND your rectal emptying was good on the defecogram, then why are you thinking of a stoma?

Maybe I just missed something in your scenario as I was away for so long on trips.

Sincerely, Rosemary
Posted 5/2/2010 6:49 AM (GMT 0)
Hi Rosemary, The "blind loop" also called a "small bowel obstruction" was a result of my April '09 SubTotal colectomy. Without showing you a picture of it, it is hard to describe, but I will try. My anastamosis was called an "end-to-side" but what they really did was take the end (top) of the rectum and hook it to the side of the small intestine. To do this they have to make a hole in the small intestine and join the rectum to it; like a perpendicular junction. They left about a 1.5 inch section of the small intestine to the left of the anastamosis; they didn't think it would cause any problem. Waste kept going into that section causing it to balloon out to about a 5 or 6 inch balloon where things got "stuck", got infected and made my body toxic! Of course some waste was going out normally but the doctor thinks the diarrhea has been worse because of this balloon emptying on a continuous but sporadic basis (if that makes any sense). Anyway I am 4 days post-surgery and already back home. I could have stayed in the hospital longer but they were giving me some treatments (constant Heparin shots in the stomach) that I know cause lots of bruising for me! I am discouraged in that I am still having to use the BR far too often but I do feel healthier (not so "toxic") in general. My doctor told me to give my body a chance to heal and not to start feeling that my surgery didn't work. I know I need to stay positive and to be greatful for having more energy already! I also know that I really need to stay on the "white diet" they recommend . . . it is just such a boring diet (and seems unhealthy). Basically it is all low-fiber, low-residue foods like: white rice, white bread, mashed potatoes, cottage cheese, plain pasta . . . . lots of bland foods with very little spice allowed. Oh well, I did want to finally start cooking some really interesting meals for my family and maybe I still will . . . . I just can't eat them. I really don't mind though, it's just hard to cook well when you don't even know if it taste like it is supposed to! Thanks to everyone for all of your encouragement. I really mean it when I say you are all invited to come and stay at my house in San Diego anytime! I would love to meet other women who understand plus there are lots of great things to do here. Let me know if anyone is coming out this way this summer!

Gilda
Posted 5/2/2010 2:15 PM (GMT 0)
WOW Gilda,

Perfect explanation I totally get it. I had heard of the end to side anastomosis and have seen pics. Though it did not pertain to my case, I ran across these pics in a colorectal surgery book when I was doing research to put together my own case. Glad the surgery worked and you are feeling better. YES, bland white no-roughage diet is the way to go. I do agree with your doc (and that's saying something for me :-) Give this whole thing more time. How long has it been?

It took my small intestine a full year before things slowed down. What is your time frame from your original surgery?

Rosemary
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