I drank ensure but it makes your output look like ensure all day no matter what you eat lol but they are good and i drnk em :)...
I just had my first blockage saturday an my stoma swole up as expected pretty large. Just wondering when the swelling goes down. Iv been on a liquid diet since and things seem ti be fine. Still...
Did you guys stoma stay swollen for a while after? I still had some pain and gas passing the day after the blockage an woke up the next day with a bag half full. Stoma is still swollen a couple days...
Yea thats what im feeling right now just as you describe. I feel a LOT better this morning just tender and stoma is swollen still. Kinda worried it might be caused by an adhesion as i hadnt ate...
Well i started throwing up around midnight with nothing in the bag since 6 oclock so i took a trip to the ER. While in the witing room i passed a huge amount of gas drom the stoma and about a half a...
No tightness behind stoma althought it is retracting and gets "fatter" ever so often. I took off my wafer and got in the shower. Massaged, knee to chest, and walked around. It pumped out a pretty...
This morning i woke up with mild pain that feels just like gas pains above and to the left of my belly button. I ate this morning and the pain keeps gerting worse. Im passing gas from the stoma but...
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I empty 2-3 times a night every night almost at the same times lol once around 12 then 3 then around 5-630 when i get up. Granted i empty when the bag is about a third full for fear of over filling ha...
yep its just what it says haha. i have been so busy getting back to work and getting back into the swing of normal life after the wedding and all that i havent thought much about updating it! and...
hi dietcoke!!! I work in surgery as a surgical technologist and had my total colectomy a couple months ago done laparoscopically and i know people have thier reasons for either lapro vs. open but if...
he is still in a very early phase of the healing. things are going to happen that seem not to make sense and spiking fevers in the hospital are not uncommon but of course the docs should keep an eye...
Yea i dont mean mucous like yall are thinking ha its just like you dab the stoma dry and it it gets back to moist but its more like really wet and it hasnt always been that way. The reason i say this...
Here in the last few bag changes my stoma looks very red and aggravated. Also weeps clear mucous a good bit like the normal intestinal lubricant. It also shrinks down a good bit at tines too. Im sure...
Thanks to you all!!! I think with an ileo you have to really praise God for the good times and place your focus on the right part of healing and life. Its easy to be happy when things are goin good...
Hi all! Im just updating for all who wanted to know how the wedding and honeymoon went and it was all PERFECT!!! Im really learning ti appreciate my stoma even tho i still obsess about it lol. To...
Thanks guys and gals! Today is the big day!!! Ha i appreciate your replies! Looks like its just down to the waitin game and lettin my body heal with time :) God Bless!!!...
Are you on prednisone now? If so that can jack your apetite up higher and if your on pain meds every 4 hours that can make u nauseous esp if your not eating. They make me nauseous. As long as your...
Try not to get too discouraged. Its still early and setbacks always happen with these surgeries weve had. You WILL get better but time is the name of the game im finding out more and more every day....
Lol hittin it with bricks... Thats funny to me for some reason lol but yea im a small guy and i had a good core going in too an i think it helps im just one of those ppl who wants to heal real quick...
Great advice! And yes.... Getting married saturday!!! Iv been so busy!!! Theres no way i could have done a fourth of what iv done if i still had UC!!! Things are on their way to a good recovery :)...
Thanks guys, yea i can see where your comin from. Sometimes i feel like i could run a marathon and sometimes i think i cant bend down to pick somethin up lol i think its mostly mental ha...
This may sound sorta funny but im just wondering... Im almost five weeks out from total colectomy and getting better all the time since figuring out the few minor setbacks i had. Now the only things...
Happy for you and always praying for everyone on heres recovery and especially yours now! Everything always works out in time just stay positive a you are and take your time recovering!!! God Bless!!...
Have you recently been on prednisone in the last few weeks? Did you stop your taper too early or adjust it in any way? I just ha the biggest mystery diagnosis iv ever had the other day. I hit a wall...
Im so sorry to hear about all your troubles and i will be praying for you. Everyone on this forum needs to read your story and see how strong one person can be and also that when some of us have...
Hi ridgerunner im about the same length out as you only about a week farther. My stitches did the same thing about halfway around stoma leaving the mucous layer if skin exposed like a little trench...
If you have the 100 dollars to spend i just recently recieved my stealth belt from stealthbelt.com and SO FAR it is pretty neat. I dont really have the money to spend but i do have a birthday coming...
So true! I really hope this taper works. I need it to bad! Gettin married in 16 days!!!!...
Yea dressing change twice a day and same thing about the shower and soap deal...
I tapered normal till 10mg and was supposed to be on it for 7 days then down to 5 for 7 days and i took three or four days of ten and tapered to 5 early and quit 5 after about 3 days. Started at 40mg...
Saw the NP at my surgeons office today that didnt really have an answer for the new symptoms. She did give me some gel to put in that open wound and it just so happened my surgeon was there so he...
My stoma works so good tho? That is similar pain as i am having tho. I believe mine is getting slightly better today but atill gonna bring it all up to surgeon! Thank you for all of your experiences....
Go to see the docs NP thursday and im gonna question them to death and see. I mean all i havent had done is an mri. I just dont see how it could be normal but then again nothing has come up on...
As you guys know im now three weeks post op almost exactly from my colectomy. The past few days i have been in the worst pain from my surgery yet. Its around my belly button incision and my back as...
Urine "culture" hasnt come back yet and fever went away last night but im up now from sleep. I wake up feeling good but when i try to get up and when i a ctually do get up im in pain outta this...
Thank you for the encouragement! I know it will eventually gwt better i just hate i was hit with these complications all at once and will feel better when fever is figured out. At walk in clinic now...
Yea i guess its just overwhelming with all these new symptoms and complications WITH the fever and nO explaination. I dont mind feelin bad as long as u know what im dealing with but as of now i just...
Thats exactly how i feel. I spent the first two weeks out of hospital recovering beautifully and then the third week out i slammed to a halt healingwise. Found out i had a bloodclot in my leg and...
Thanks so much! I think i just worry cause i felt so great up until the two week mark then i hit a wall for no good reason. Its so hard to believe its all "normal" lol i guess healing is just a...
Well i should be leaving ER in just a sec. All infection and wbc counts were normal, air in belly from surgery is gone. No explaination for fever or the excruciating pain that just started to the...
Yea iv heard that pain is common so i wasnt real worried except the drainage from incision was increasing and the pain i am having there is so bad i cant hardly talk or breathe in deep! Its the worst...
Thank you me too. Im sure the lap incision is infected. But im where i need to be :) thanks for the reply! Maybe someone will chime in with similar experience...
Not in hospital was discharged uesterday. Belly button incision is draining a lot and severe pain next to incision. Fever keeps goin up. I guess ill be headed back to ER tonight.......
Well guys i just dont understand... Found out about the clot and am taking care of that. Woke up this morning with sharp pain about an inch beside my belly button incision on the right. It hurts...
Thanks for all the info and support! It is interesting so many of you had clots also. Seems there could be a correlation. But glad you all recovered well from it! God Bless!!!...
Thanks for prayers and encouragement! Read the scan and no blood clots in lungs so im just stuck with the dvt. Blueglass your right, 6 mos coumadin and ct scan after. Its just a minor setback but it...
Well what a strange turn of events... So i called doc about bein short of breath and some soreness in my belly and they suggested i go to the ER and have some chest xrays and ct scan of my belly and...
Thanks guys! Its just so early in my healing and i obsess over everything haha still tryin to get comfortble with everything. Seems like each new day is a new challenge. But im sure it will all come...