Doubts about treatment
June 15, 2009People email me everyday with doubts about treatment options. Sometimes the doubts are about the effects of medicine long term, sometimes they are about living with an ileostomy, and sometimes they are about living with a J-pouch.
And doubts are good! Doubts are to be encouraged. If you doubt something it shows that you care about it.
Just don’t let your doubts paralyze you into inaction.
Keep fighting,
~Dennis
Question: What doubts do you have about your future treatment options? Reply to this post!
Hi Dennis, Thank you once again for posting an inspirational video, I felt like you made this one especially for me. I have told you before that I am terrified of the outcome of my j-pouch surgery (first surgery next week, June 23rd), I am not well, but I am not a train wreck either, so voluntarily undergoing this surgery and going through hell for a while is overwhelming for me. And then to go through the takedown and hope that all will be well with that too! What a long road ahead without a written guarantee! You seem to be doing so well, I am so happy for that and I am also more grateful than you know for all your many videos that you have placed on here. Thank you Dennis :)
Sincerely,
Elise
Hi Dennis,
Firstly I’d just like to say that you and Nadia are really cool and what you are doing here is really great. I am meeting the surgeon tomorrow here in London to discuss surgery after just over three years of chronically active UC. Even though I have never been in hospital with this disease I have to say that it has been somewhat of a nightmare and has slowly but surely been affecting every part of my life. I have tried pretty much everything and the only drug that has anything like a satisfactory response is prednisone which as we know is not a permanent fix.
So anyway I am hoping to have surgery, and yes I have some serious doubts, but compared to the certainty of my current state (I know for a fact my colon is diseased and is not going to get better) I think and hope I am making the right choice.
Thanks again for the help you guys are giving to so many people. I have given your website to my docs here to pass on to other patients as personally I have found this site more helpful than everything else online put together.
Take care,
Blair.