Ileostomy Reversal

[Scotty]

Hi I am pretty new to this forum but I have been reading some of the advice over the last couple of months for me I have had Chron's for 10 years but I used to only get small flare ups where I use predisone to control with Mezaline ( Salofalk) which in December stopped working for me.I have recently had Ilestomy operation which was done as emergency surgery due to a perferated small Bowel (intestine) and a abcess on the large bowel and I was told that had had removed the disease part which is good I just hope that it does not come back.I found pretty hard to deal with due to the pain and also getting use to haveing a Stoma and now I am comming up to where they will be operating again to resect the Instestine ( Small Bowel to Large Bowel ) could anyone who has been through the reversal surgery please let me know what it was like and what sort of recovery time after surgery ???? thanks :ybiggrin::ybiggrin:

 

[mikeyarmo]

Hi Scotty,

Welcome to the forum. I am glad you finally decided to register!

Emergency surgery is not fun but it is great that they were able to remove the diseased portion of your large intestine.

I have not had a stoma (and therefore no stoma reversal surgery) but other members certainly have. Hopefully some will have a chance to post here.

Additionally, you can use the forum's search feature to look up other threads about this surgery.

Looking forward to seeing you more often on the forum!

 

[Scotty]

Thanks Mikeyarmo

 

[Angrybird]

Hello Scotty and welcome to the forum :bigwave: I am sorry that you ended up having to have surgery I have not had a stoma either but had the resection straight away, I do hope the reversal op goes well for you. Have you been started on any new medications yet for your crohns or will this be coming up after the op?

 

[Scotty]

Hi Angrybird,
Yeah they started me on Imuran same as you but 150mg per day which I have now been on for about 8 weeks .cheers for the welcome

 

[Angrybird]

Fingers crossed it works! I have been on it before and had an issue with it so it was stopped, they are slowing re-introducing it this time in the hopes that it doesn't happen again. Hoping to get up to 125mg within the next month and this will be my maintainence dose.

 

[cecilialynn]

Hello Scotty, I will be having reversal surgery on the 20th of this month. I had my colon removed during a trauma surgery. They plan on reconnecting me with a J Pouch. I will let you know how things go after the surgery. Good luck to you. Im sure all will go good.

 

[Scotty]

Good luck to you as well 