staples forever...

My surgeon is using staples to create my JPouch (if he ever okays me to be healthy and healed enough from the 1st surgery).

Staples will be in me forever.

Has anyone else had this?

My real question is I fly every year for at least one if not more than one vacation. Do they come up on the body scanner??

Yes, that is how the surgery is done. If you get a jpouch, you get staples. They are very tiny....you won't set off any alarms... I asked! :)

Thanks!!! I wasn't sure how to explain that to the strange (as in complete stranger), sometimes odd and slightly crazy, agents.

Jen

w.t.f. staples....I didn't know that. I thought they would be a temporary thing until the j pouch fusions itself together.

Sue, are you saying that titanium spaples will go away eventually, or j pouch people will forever have staples holding the pouch together.

I'm getting re-evaluated for a takedown of my ileostomy in July and I was freaked out by knowing staples will be in me forever. I'm glad to hear they get encased in flesh... kind of freaked out by hearing they pass. ouch? I'm worried that a quick twist after the six week healing time will result in my intestine ripping because of the staple... I guess I'll have to ask my surgeon.