Ilestomy time!!!

I was able to eat pretty normally following surgery, but everyone has to move at their own pace & different surgeons give different instructions. I remember I wanted chinese food and my significant other went to a restaurant and picked me up some. It felt so good to eat something enjoyable after barely eating anything for so long. Prior to having surgery, I was in a bad flare up and I was avoiding food completely. When I wasn't flaring, I was always calculating the repercussions of everything I ate. None of it actually seemed to matter, but I'd still blame the food, it was easier to blame the food than to face that i had an unmanaged, uncontrollable chronic condition. With a jpouch, you without a doubt, will go more. Most people go about 6x a day. I do not keep count personally, but I'd say that number is probably accurate. I often go because I am in there, not necessarily because I have to go badly. Some nights you will get up to go, depends on how you eat and what time. There are definitely trade-offs, and it's easy to paint a positive picture, or a negative picture, a large part of it is going to depend on your individual result and your perspective. It sounds like you're going into it with a very good outlook, and that's important. Surgery is a long road, but it goes quickly, and life after, for me, has been so much more productive, but it's not the right answer for everyone. I wish you luck getting better!!

By the way my first real meal out of the hospital is going to be a chicken parm hoagie with vodka sauce instead of red (try it I promise you it's life changing) and some boneless honey bbq wings (very very mild sauce since I despise spicy as it is). This was okd very quickly by my ostomy nurse surprisingly as she said I'm not eating to avoid the disease anymore I'm eating in the beginning to avoid alot of fiber. I was so excited haha I'm a huge food fan. Now I know to take it easy and CHEW and eat half and half at a time. But what a relief to feel ok with food again and it'll only benefit my health in the long run to limit these items more than the past where take out was regular as long as I worked out and CHEW slower and develop better eating habits to avoid complications. But trust me I will indulge!!! Hahh

Post Edited (thisisfun570) : 6/11/2017 6:26:38 PM (GMT-6)

Hey, hope all goes well for you, here is a quick write up of how my first surgery went for me:

http://determinedchristian.com/jpouchsurgery/