Watch after takedown surgery
July 27, 2009From my own experience and from listening to the stories from others, it seems that the first few weeks following an ileostomy takedown or reversal are the most difficult for people who are now using a J-pouch. There can be a lot of doubts during this period about the decision that was made to have surgery, but it’s important not to get down!
Keep the end goal in mind, and watch this video. Hopefully you’ll get some encouragement to make it through this difficult time, a time when you are going to the bathroom so often it feels like you have ulcerative colitis again.
Keep fighting,
~Dennis
Thank you for doing this video.I am 47 years old and have lived my life with Crohns & an ileostomy in secret. But thanks to wonderful, brave, strong people like you, who are taking the embarassment & reluctance to talk to anyone about it, away. The surgery saved my life….so it is a wonderful thing….how could it be bad & ugly! Again, thank you for your openness and honesty…your a great man!
wound care from where stoma was??