Brief history - i had an emergency ileostomy in 2009 which was reversed in nov 2010.
Since that reversal i have been very anaemic requiring blood transfusions and iron infusions.
Saw the surgeon yesterday who says its a stricture causing all my problems and it has to go (i also hve a capsule endoscopy stuck in there).
He then drops the bomb shell that as ive been on and off steroids for the past 6 months he wants to do a stoma as he feels the anastamosis would break down if he did a standard re-section due to the steroids.
Im kind of in shock - my life is bad at the moment so anything that gets rid of the problems has to be a good thing but the last stoma caused me a lot of problems although they were actually more to do with fistulas appearing next to the stoma site which then cause problems with bags sticking so those problems wont be an issue this time.
Since that reversal i have been very anaemic requiring blood transfusions and iron infusions.
Saw the surgeon yesterday who says its a stricture causing all my problems and it has to go (i also hve a capsule endoscopy stuck in there).
He then drops the bomb shell that as ive been on and off steroids for the past 6 months he wants to do a stoma as he feels the anastamosis would break down if he did a standard re-section due to the steroids.
Im kind of in shock - my life is bad at the moment so anything that gets rid of the problems has to be a good thing but the last stoma caused me a lot of problems although they were actually more to do with fistulas appearing next to the stoma site which then cause problems with bags sticking so those problems wont be an issue this time.