Ileostomy reversal

[AussieMumma]

Hi all, I havent been on here in a little while. I'm back in hospital again, just had my ileostomy 'closed' on Wednesday. Has anyone else been through this surgery? Right now I am feeling a fair bit of pain at the sight and quite a bit of wind pain. I'm still on a liquid diet, but hoping to get upgraded to solids tomorrow. It's looking like I may get out of hospital on Monday. Hope you're all doing well

 

[mugsymagoos]

I am hoping my daughter can have her's reversed this summer. How did you find the surgery? What did they tell you the recovery time would be??

 

[AussieMumma]

So far it hasn't been too bad. I had surgey 8 days ago, and now I have some incision pain (not taking any pain meds for it) trying to avoid lifting, and trying to rest a lot. After eating solids I've had a few bouts of diarrhoea (2 of them pretty bad!), but have since been sticking to a low fibre diet and my body seems to be doing ok with it. My surgeon said 4 weeks for bowels to get back to normal and to be feeling not so tired etc.

 

[TacoTuesday]

I just had mine 3 days ago.. No diet assigned until I can pass gas which seems to be building up. The surgery pain itself did not seem as bad as the ileostomy itself but I was in bad shape going into that one

 

[AussieMumma]

2 months on and I am feeling great! No pain at all. Bowels back to normal. I am also eating foods I haven't eaten in years (beans, brocolli, onion etc) and having no troubles. I am hoping I stay feeling so great. I have also had an iron infusion to help with the tiredness. I have a colonoscopy in a couple of weeks to see how things are looking, fingers crossed!

 

[mugsymagoos]

How long would you say it took you to recover? Work or school etc?? Glad you are feeling great!