Butt Exercises After Surgery
December 19, 2008Hey everybody, today’s video is about exercises my surgeon suggested I do while having the ileostomy. It makes sense, right? If I wasn’t going to be using my butt muscles for over six months, they’d start to lose their strength. Now I know that not all surgeons tell their patients to do these exercises. I suppose if you only have an ileostomy for 2 to 3 months you might be able to get away with it. But I seem to be one of the few people who did the surgeries in three stages over a longer period of time, so the exercises made sense to me.
And now that I’m using my j-pouch for real, I understand the importance of these exercises. It really is hard to hold things back when the j-pouch first starts filling up.
Yesterday’s Stool Count: 7 times during the day, 3 times during the night.
Slight improvement.
Keep fighting,
~Dennis
Question: Did your surgeon mention doing these exercises?
