UCVlog: Ulcerative Colitis: First Surgery: Colectomy

My colitis got so bad that surgery was the only option left for me. Because I had been on so much medicine, they needed to proceed through the surgeries very slowly. The first surgery involved removing my colon and creating an end ileostomy

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• inflammatory
• UC
• ileostomy
• stoma
• ostomy
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[kramerlust]

Thanks for the post. I was diagnosed in 2008 and facing the same but fighting it. I don't want the risk of failure and living forever with the bag- I'm only 38. Any info on success rates you have learned having done all this?

Thanks-

Danny

[UCVlog]

@kramerlust Talk to a surgeon and see if you can get their personal/the hospital's success rates. I don't remember the exact numbers for me, but something like 90+% of patients at Mayo Clinic had a functioning J-pouch after 20 years. About 20% had pouchitis at least once. So all in all, pretty successful. I know the ostomy pouch is worrisome, but a lot of people actually find they like it once they get used to it.

[patrickhenrysmom]

Very informative. Thanks for sharing your experience. I hope you are doing well now! Do you still have to restrict your diet? And, did they make you a colon and rectum?

[UCVlog]

@patrickhenrysmom Watch my video "Second Surgery" to get the full scope on what they made. They made a J-pouch, which takes the place of the rectum. Also watch my J-pouch update videos and my Diet with a J-Pouch video to get the full story on diet. Basically, no, I don't restrict my diet in any way.

~Dennis

[Hercnh]

Dennis it has been three years are you glad you had the operations? is your life better? are you med free? My daughter is getting the first operation July 6

[UCVlog]

@Hercnh Life is better and I don't take any prescription medicine, though I do take Imodium on a regular basis to thicken the stool. I have gotten pouchitis 3 times, and take antibiotics for that. See my videos with "Pouchitis" in the title. I won't lie and say life is perfect. If you watch my J-pouch update videos you'll get a sense of my ups and downs. But life is better after surgery.

~Dennis

[ChadAvalon808]

Thanks for posting these videos. The GI and my regular doctor feel that I may need surgery and will be doing more check ups etc. I also want to learn more about the surgery, the procedures, etc. Thanks again it's really helping.

[lemalema11]

thanx 4 sharing ur experice with us

it is benefitting many sick people

[UCVlog]

@fuckamerica109 I've seen all the natural route videos before. In my case and Nadia's case, our colons were so deteriorated from the disease that surgery was a necessity. I only had the disease for a year before I had surgery, hardly enough time to explore all of the medicinal and natural options. My disease was that bad and destroyed my colon that fast. If you are having success with the natural route, that's fantastic! But I can't go back and redo things. What's done is done.

~Dennis

[fuckamerica109]

@UCVlog You could have found a natural way if you searched for it and did the work yourself. Try watching some of jaybaluk's videos.