I am ten years past my total colectomy and 9 past my reversal. I've since had a baby 8 years ago, and several resection surgeries on my small because of twists. In the ensuing years I am begun to...
Hey all , it's been a while. The last month my 2-3 bms a day have become much more inconsistent and along with it has come excruciating pain in my rectum during and spasms with more pain for about 5...
I had gone as long as 9 weeks once and got septic, so I feel you. I got an ileo-anal anastemosis done, but they had to revise it twice because of tearing so I really don't know what I have left. Its...
IBS-C. I was having one BM every 2 weeks. I was getting septic and miserable and throwing up poop basically. It was so painful all the time. My bowel has no muscle tone like a mild Hirschprungs...
I did phentermine before my colectomy and it worked wonders. I did it after and it did nothing. I spent some time in the jpouch forum today after reading that link and there are a couple of other...
Thank you for the link. I read it all, and really it looks like mostly one woman who is really against it, and we don't have the same issues going in. I don't have dumping or rapid transit, my food...
I had a total colectomy w/anastemosis in 2006 for IBSC. While it has solved a lot of issues, it has caused other ones. Since the surgery I have gained almost 60 lbs. My gastro doc says he has seen it...
I think maybe I worded that badly. He is doing the ballon sinuplasty in office. I have to have it done several weeks before the endo shunt. The shunt will be done in the hospital, but the sinuplasty...
Dr put me down for a balloon sinuplasty in a couple weeks prior to an endolymphatic shunt procedure. I don't mind the surgery, it is a means to an end, but he wants to do it IN OFFICE. AWAKE. And I...
My sweet 10 year old son was diagnosed with P.A.N.D.A.S. 2 years ago. However his raging and mood swings were more severe than his care team had seen. This led them to diagnose him as bipolar, saying...
Had a Total Colectomy ( for CI ) with anastemosis in 2006. I had the usual kinks and stuff. Had a baby in 2008 ( boy was that painful), lots of digestive yuck, but things kept moving. I started...
Thank you Pray! Ash - I know what you mean by "looking for information"... It seems like I spent months looking all over the internet... reading medical journals...etc before we got married looking...
Colonic interta... My transit time was womthing like 28 days. My large intestine was like 15 feet long with no muscle tone and tiny holes all over it. I got regular toxic shock because of hte buildup...
Ah... I have two from my first marriage pre-surgery. This is definately not the easiest thing I have had to do, but not UN-doable. (is that a word) The abdominal pain is probably the hardest thing,...
Ash, were you pregnant post operation?...
My cathetar was a little unruly... the doc said I must have had some kind of UT infection going when they placed it because I swelled up down there like a grapefruit and it kept cutting it off. Pee...
You know my husband suggested that I just give up and go with the gumball vitamins that we give the kids... those actually taste good. I mean, the doctors go on and on about every vitamin we have...
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I have them in my pelvic area and the left side of my abdomen... Right now they hurt when I think things are "kinked up" and my doc is trying to ascertain what is causing it and if it is the...
Hey! Congrats on finding some answers, and this place. It was a God-send for me too before my TC. I had a total colectomy with ilieo-anal anastemosis in August of 2006 and I have never been happier....
Hey Stuck42Long. I had a TC, but my sister had a hemicolectomy. Her colo/rec Dr said that he was leaving it in because she was very easily dehydrated and leaving in a small piece allowed her to...
thanks cattieos. I just am so worried over it. I also heard that having had colon surgery increases your chances of infertility by like 30%. I also have PCOS (Poly Cystic Ovarian Syndrome) that makes...
I had mine reversed right after my colectomy, so technically i don't have one anymore. I am concerned that some kind of complication from the pregnancy might induce me to need one again. I don't...
Been a while since I have been here, but hello all! Have any of you women (or men with partners who have had a colectomy) gotten pregnant after having your colectomy? What were the complications?...
/community/emoticons/confused.gif Why Why WHYYYYY???? /community/emoticons/confused.gif Hey y'all... It has been a bit since I have been around. Had my total colectomy in September with a few...
Yay, Holly!! So happy for you, and I hope you take it easy and recover fast! L...
Hey Resa! As far as the BMs go, I know that I go right after I eat, but I think it is more along the lines of that as soon as I eat I am not passing the food that I just ate, but actually I am...
Hello Mwabit! Welcome! I had a total colectomy with ilieo-rectal anastemosis on 9-13 and am still healing, but I escaped without the ostomy. My doc gave me a 30-40% chance of needing one when I went...
I did the hot pack thing too for a while.... I have alot of pain around the navel area too (which post surgery looks more like a bad gunshot wound than a belly button.. lol) and it made loads of...
Hey Resa... are you feeling any better yet? I remember the days of literally being doubled over with pain.. it gets better you know. I hope yours has passed, and maybe its the LAST attack ever!...
/community/emoticons/yeah.gif Yeah, Resa! So there is a light at the end of your tunnel now. Wonderful! Congrats! Wmnak: my diet is bland nothing with a side of tastless otherness.. lol I am...
lol... my ex husband and all my family live in the Jasper/Lufkin area. I didn't know there were any specialists in that neck of the woods. ............................ Any takers on the continence...
Awww. Smiley. Thanks for the reply! Yeah, I have huge irritated bald spots all over, too. Did yours get those? Almost like flaky dandruff sometimes, but painful. Thought it might just have to do with...
Wmnak --I have never heard of doing a colonoscopy via stoma before.. surely it can't be much worse than doing it the old fashioned way..lol We ALL know about that.. Where are your followup appts at...
Same here!!! Had my colectomy on 9-13 and an obstruction on 9-22 among other things... lol almost a month in in the hosp, and I went from having a mane of curly hair to having so little hair that I...
LOL, they gave me 2 red popcicles 2days before I left the hosp after my colectomy... Man did I panic when I saw all of the red slimy stuff.... Called my surgeon in on a sunday and everything before...
CONGRATS TEDDYB!!!! /community/emoticons/yeah.gif Even with the pain, the horrible hospital, etc, isn't is great to know that this is the beginning of a part of your life that does not revolve around...
Hey all... sorry for the lack of updates... I just have been so out of it I haven't had the energy. Right after my last post, the next morning I stood up out of bed and the bottom of my incision...
Hey all! 22 days later and I just got discharged this morning... WHEW! The surgery went well, but I got a secondary infection in my central line and had some other issues that put me in for a while...
Ok, so they locked us out of Part 11 so I started 12... Amey... thanks for the childbirth comparison... I did 3 labors totally without meds...36 stitches on the last one, and I survived... one bad...
Hello all! Newbie here, and a scared one at that...lol My name is Laura, I am 24, live in Texas, and am the mother of 2 beautiful babes. I am scheduled for a total colectomy on Wednesday and thought...