I go batgroom every five minutes .. starting to scare me Also taking medicine but no luck. Is this typical? Suggestions? I am afraid of sort of bleeding out!...
Friends and friends of friends who know I am having "the operation" next week, keep warning me to be careful about getting dehydrated. If I drink juice or Gatorade with meals and have a glass or two...
I am scheduled for a colectomy next week, which my doctor plans to do "open" , long incision, etc. and have done some research on my own. Almost everything I read talks about laproscopic operations....
I am at the point of shopping for a doc who will agree to a 1 step, set up the J-pouch when he does my colectomy. One doctor says "maybe", anothr says no, you need rest and 3 months heeling first. I...
Al, When you say "I can eat anything", do you mean you can eat Maxican food? Sushi? Ice cream? Can you really EAT those thingsd or only take a bite here and there? Can you eat and then go out or do...
I keep seeing rules like "chew, chew and drink a lot". What can you eat after the operation? (not sure if I get a j-pouch in one operation or in the second in three months) I got tooth implants a...
Thanks for the answers. That is exactly whay I needed to hear. I am not really a baby. When I had my wisdom teeth out at age 30 I went right to work from the dentist; talked through gauze and...
Of course I am scared to death; scared of the risk of surgery and the pain afterward. My doc said he did not know if he would do a one step or two step surgery to get me a jpouch. The prospect of two...