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Great news! Long may it last!

the deased part is jus the two strictures and bewteen them psuedosaculation....but he has to see what is below the lower stricture to be sure to connect two healthy ends.

Yeah, my wife has a favourite Aunt who had GBlddr out many months ago and she cant visit us because she can't get out the house before mid day due to the D. Obviously I should not be concerned about the D - it should pass in a couple of weeks.

when i told the surgeon i was concerned about permanent D if i loose the valve he said that has never happened and he has been doing these a long time. I guess it is back to what has been said before you tend to get people in need here. people who have a good outcome are not on here for long....

many thanks Jess, What did you have done and was it elective or emergency..I have just left the surgoen's office having signed the paperwork for the operation. He could not promise to save the ceaocal valve..only to do what would be best for me in the long term. Her in the UK it is a 14 week...

Sorry I'm being thick here. are you saying before surgery you used to be up at 4.00 am every day and after surgery..long time after you now sleep much better than that?

I have been waking at 4 or 5 am since my first symptoms 4 years ago and never get back to sleep- just lie there feeling exhausted, trying to rest and not disturb my partner. Anyone had experienced significantly improved sleep after surgery? I assume bowel starts doing stuff a couple of hours...

How do you cope with the anxiety, the uncertainty of outcome and the fear of pain.

I think the key determinant on balloons is if the strictures are fibrotic..they should be able to tell this from the wall thickness on an mri scan. Then again maybe an endoscopy would be worth a try first even if they cannot use a balloon to help them know whats going on prior to surgery.

Yeah I just know it takes many months to build up when u start aza so I guess it takes same time to stop supressing immune system....

Elanor-rigby... wound healing - yes I don't know if they would delay it atall for me to come off AZA..but I guess that would take months!

NOT POINTLESS. There are I am sure many of us here who have at some stage felt as you do. It does pass. Things do get better. Sometimes you look back and wonder how you get through- but you did. It sounds like you need to be impressing upon your doctors just how much you are suffering...

Well it has taken more than 6 weeks since I saw the Gastro Consultant but I finally have an appointment with surgeon in 2 days time. I have been referred for resection of 2 strictures in the ileum - about 10cm above the valve. Can anyone advise what questions I should ask? Obviously I would...

JESS, Hope you continue to improve and everything heals!

Laparoscopic! Maybe it would be worth going through a colonoscopy to know before what they thought would have to come out. My lower stricture is 9/10cm above the valve so I was hoping to keep it. just resting - do you think you got complications by not resting enough/going to work to soon?

jESSpEPER Pleased to hear your D has all gone away. It does seems to vary between different people. Can I ask roughly your age - I am in late 50's and worried if I lost valve that things would never adjust.

Thanks for that Jess...so you would not say the D is restricting you atall then.? or has it gone completely. I am very nervous of ending up more restricted than I am now - though as you say probably better D than the pain of C.

I hope you got some support on this vis PM. I don't wish to put down's GP's because many are very good ..but my crohn's was missed for 6 months due to GP not taking my symptoms seriously. I had urinary urgency 24/7 - no sleep atall for 3 nights...sedatives just to sleep and he would not do...

If you already know scope results blood test is unlikely to show anything else unless you are overly supressed on meds... anxiety - yes I understand - I had disc surgery in 2010- like you I was lucky it was emergency - did not know I would be surgery when I woke up that morning. Then you are...

elanor - cant thank you enough for those words.. on your original blood test question - for me they are usually just checking inflamtion levels and whether your immune system is too supressed if you are on an immune suppressant..