Medications Post Surgery

[SupportiveMom]

Not sure if this should go here or in the surgery subform. My 14 yr old just had ileostomy surgery Wednesday. GI is saying now that her colon is gone, and there has been no active disease in small bowel in 2 years she will be slowly tapering off meds one by one until she is completely off medications completely.

Anyone have this experience? If so how did it go?

 

[hawkeye]

I've been off medication since my resection February 2014, there was no tapering, the surgeon said to stop the medication. There was a bit of a wait and see approach with the GI until the scope this past November, but with the clear scope he kept me off medication. I didn't have any (or maybe recent - don't really know where things were initially and I don't have access to my original file) activity in the small bowel.