Allie: I was just reading through some older post and saw where you were from Texas - so am I. Did you have your total colectomy in Texas. I did. I had mine done in baylor - by Dr. Robert Jacobson -...
Hi everyone - it has been awhile since I posted. I had a total colectomy with ileorectal anastmosis in Jan 06. Things were going great until Nov 09 and since then I have not been going to the...
Hello everyone - I am an old member who has not been on lately. I had a total colectomy with ielorectal anastmosis in Jan 06. Everything has been GREAT until lately. I was going to the bathroom 2-3...
Hello everyone - it's been a long time since I posted. I had my TC Jun 06 and things have been wonderful for the most part. However lately I had not been going to the bathroom but once a day and...
Thank ya'll so much for the information. I know I have an obsessive personality and this is like MAJOR to me as I know you understand. It was the most incredible thing I have ever been through, even...
STUCK42LONG: Thanks for all the information. I was on MiraLAX for 10 years before my surgery.....Does the MiraLAX make your stomach swell now? It did make mine swell before - but don't know if it was...
PHYLLIS: I had my surgery on 31 Jan 06. Things have been wonderful; however the last week or so, I have gone from having three BMs daily to only one and the stool is somewhat hard in the beginning....
Hi Vandgsmom: I had my surgery on 31 Jan 06. I am also from Texas. I had my surgery at Baylor Medical Center, Dallas, TX which is about a three hour drive from where I live. I was in the hospital 14...
Hello, I am new to this post, but am a member to Total Colectomy. I had mine 31 Jan 06. When I left the hosptial 14 days afterward, I was having approximatley 15 bms daily, now I am down to 1-2 daily...
Janna: With you being a year out did the (d) slow down? I am exactly six months out and mine has slowed down to just one formed bm per day. I am beginning to worry - I felt better when it was 3-5...
hello everyone, hope all is well. I had surgery on 31 Jan 06. My surgeon told me that the six month mark would determine usually how things would be from then on. I was having 4-5 bm daily, but the...
Hi everyone, it has been awhile since I posted. Things have been going good for me. I am 5 1/2 months out and averaging about 3 bms per day. The last two weeks have been kinda different though, some...
Hi everyone. I too am glad I had the surgery. Life is wonderful and GOD is good. I had mine on 31 Jan 06 and this is my second week back to work. I was really tired last week, but this week is...
Cathy: My stomach has settled down and does not make all those noises as often. The thing I am concerned about is my job being so stressful and today (my first day back)I though I needed to go to the...
Hello everyone - it has been awhile since I posted. I had my surgery on 31 Jan 06. I stayed 14 days in the hospital and was home a week and had to go back for three days due to a urinary infection. I...
Hi all - well my surgery is scheduled for Tuesday. I am really nervous. Today was my last day at work and I am kind of a control freak and don't want anyone at my desk for the next six weeks or so,...
Emma: What a trooper you are, I would have probably walked out after all the trouble you had with the prep. Thank you so much, you have put my mind at ease (as much as it can be right now). I am...
Emma: what causes an ileus or a blockage and can this happen after you get home. What time frame do you no longer have to worry about these. I live three hours from Baylor (where I will have my...
Cathy - I am scheduled for surgery on 31 Jan and I am scared. Do you have an ileostomy? Did your surgery go wrong and will the reverse it? What causes it? I am also wondering if all the bloating,...
Chris - I hate the cathether too, I always get an infection and I have bladder spasms also. I did the sitz marker test 2-3 years ago, so they did not repeat it; of course, it would have only been...
Emma: Thanks for the encouragement. Get this too, Lesa and I are from the same town and that is three hours away from the surgeon's office and the hospital. So I know God is working in all of this....
Hello, my name is Sandy and I am scheduled for surgery on 31 Jan 06. I am so scared. I am having the same surgery as Lesa. I had the opportunity to meet her at the surgeon's office yesterday, she...