Bowel surgery for Cronh's, any experience
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richtea78 said:
My first meal was too soon after the surgery as I was pushing too hard. Ended up having to be aspirated with an NG tube which was not pleasant and set me back quite a while
Aaaaaah....... i too have been through this when my bits decided to to wake up after the surgery...... not something i'd like to repeat too often either !!!!!Good reading, thanks folks.
I'm due to go in for surgery for bowel cancer (mid part of ascending colon, beside duodenum but not attached) so reading your recovery processes is interesting stuff. I'm coming to the end of chemo number 5 tomorrow (3 week cycles) and due my 6th and final infusion on the 28th. Surgery should be 4 to 6 weeks after that finishes (2 weeks tablets after IV drugs) so we are looking at mid to late april.
Anyone here got experience of this sort of surgery? Can't be that dissimilar to chrones surgery can it?
I'm hoping for keyhole given my age (32) and where i am (Bournemouth - they do keyhole here) but obviously an 'unzip' is a good possibility. How does keyhole compare to major-invasive?
Eddie
I'm due to go in for surgery for bowel cancer (mid part of ascending colon, beside duodenum but not attached) so reading your recovery processes is interesting stuff. I'm coming to the end of chemo number 5 tomorrow (3 week cycles) and due my 6th and final infusion on the 28th. Surgery should be 4 to 6 weeks after that finishes (2 weeks tablets after IV drugs) so we are looking at mid to late april.
Anyone here got experience of this sort of surgery? Can't be that dissimilar to chrones surgery can it?
I'm hoping for keyhole given my age (32) and where i am (Bournemouth - they do keyhole here) but obviously an 'unzip' is a good possibility. How does keyhole compare to major-invasive?
Eddie
ecain63 said:
Good reading, thanks folks.
I'm due to go in for surgery for bowel cancer (mid part of ascending colon, beside duodenum but not attached) so reading your recovery processes is interesting stuff. I'm coming to the end of chemo number 5 tomorrow (3 week cycles) and due my 6th and final infusion on the 28th. Surgery should be 4 to 6 weeks after that finishes (2 weeks tablets after IV drugs) so we are looking at mid to late april.
Anyone here got experience of this sort of surgery? Can't be that dissimilar to chrones surgery can it?
I'm hoping for keyhole given my age (32) and where i am (Bournemouth - they do keyhole here) but obviously an 'unzip' is a good possibility. How does keyhole compare to major-invasive?
Eddie
I have had two operations for bowel cancer,I'm due to go in for surgery for bowel cancer (mid part of ascending colon, beside duodenum but not attached) so reading your recovery processes is interesting stuff. I'm coming to the end of chemo number 5 tomorrow (3 week cycles) and due my 6th and final infusion on the 28th. Surgery should be 4 to 6 weeks after that finishes (2 weeks tablets after IV drugs) so we are looking at mid to late april.
Anyone here got experience of this sort of surgery? Can't be that dissimilar to chrones surgery can it?
I'm hoping for keyhole given my age (32) and where i am (Bournemouth - they do keyhole here) but obviously an 'unzip' is a good possibility. How does keyhole compare to major-invasive?
Eddie
1) Anterior resection,
2)Right hemi-colectomy.
Think (2) might be similar to what you will be having.
Keyhole doesn't depend on your age but on what they need to get at.
Hasn't the doc told you what to expect ?
Keyhole is a lot quicker to recover from than a zip.
I am twice your age and both ops were 'zip', 26 clips in the last one.
Nobody has told me anything about surgery yet as the focus has been on shrinking as much as possible the b
d tumour. It was 10cm at day 1 and its been heavily battered since with good results. Luckily the cancer is only in one place with minimal influence on surrounding tissue. There was some inflammation of a couple of nearby lymph nodes (which has reduced) but no sign of cancer.
I was only supposed to have 4 rounds of chemo pre-op but they are giving me another 2 as a bonus because the treatment is working so well. The smaller the better im told which is why im hoping its going to be keyhole.
Eddie
d tumour. It was 10cm at day 1 and its been heavily battered since with good results. Luckily the cancer is only in one place with minimal influence on surrounding tissue. There was some inflammation of a couple of nearby lymph nodes (which has reduced) but no sign of cancer. I was only supposed to have 4 rounds of chemo pre-op but they are giving me another 2 as a bonus because the treatment is working so well. The smaller the better im told which is why im hoping its going to be keyhole.
Eddie
If it's fairly localised , then i assume that keyhole will be the way to go.They will take out the lymph glands close by as well to do pathology on.
Sometimes they dont know until they get inside how much work is needed.
Your age is a good plus point for a quicker recovery.
Be prepared to wake up with a catheter, which is not a problem, but something to ask about.
Sometimes they dont know until they get inside how much work is needed.
Your age is a good plus point for a quicker recovery.
Be prepared to wake up with a catheter, which is not a problem, but something to ask about.
jbudgie said:
Be prepared to wake up with a catheter, which is not a problem, but something to ask about.
Yeah I think a catheter is fairly standard, but 24hrs with a piss tube isnt really concerning me to be honest. Im just keem to heal as quick as possible because my first child is due the same month. Don't want to be spending all my time in hospital if i can help it. Watched some hemicolectomy videos last night on YouTube. Interesting viewing!
Hadn't realised that they showed ops on You Tube 
The animations seem interesting, not sure that I particularly wanted to see the ops before I went in !!
You must be more of a geek than me .
Think you will probably only be in for about 5 days.Fitness is the main thing to help you.
I have always been in longer as I always suffer from an ileus which tends to take 4 or so days to clear.
The animations seem interesting, not sure that I particularly wanted to see the ops before I went in !!
You must be more of a geek than me .
Think you will probably only be in for about 5 days.Fitness is the main thing to help you.
I have always been in longer as I always suffer from an ileus which tends to take 4 or so days to clear.
Had Crohns since I was 8 or 9 years old (38 now)
Tend to have an episode every 5 years or so till I gave up on the drugs and the restrictive diet, it made me worse by stressing over what I could(n't) eat and I have been fine since 2007 when I was in ICU (had a 48 hour drinking session and put myself into Manchester Royal Infirmary - it was a good weekend..!)
I have refused surgery every time as I don't want the bag
Manage it perfectly well without the interference from doctors and the like
I don't give a toss and just enjoy myself, going to die of something so whatthehell...
Tend to have an episode every 5 years or so till I gave up on the drugs and the restrictive diet, it made me worse by stressing over what I could(n't) eat and I have been fine since 2007 when I was in ICU (had a 48 hour drinking session and put myself into Manchester Royal Infirmary - it was a good weekend..!)
I have refused surgery every time as I don't want the bag
Manage it perfectly well without the interference from doctors and the like
I don't give a toss and just enjoy myself, going to die of something so whatthehell...
ecain63 said:
Nobody has told me anything about surgery yet as the focus has been on shrinking as much as possible the bd tumour. It was 10cm at day 1 and its been heavily battered since with good results. Luckily the cancer is only in one place with minimal influence on surrounding tissue. There was some inflammation of a couple of nearby lymph nodes (which has reduced) but no sign of cancer.
I was only supposed to have 4 rounds of chemo pre-op but they are giving me another 2 as a bonus because the treatment is working so well. The smaller the better im told which is why im hoping its going to be keyhole.
Eddie
Let us know how things go Eddie.d tumour. It was 10cm at day 1 and its been heavily battered since with good results. Luckily the cancer is only in one place with minimal influence on surrounding tissue. There was some inflammation of a couple of nearby lymph nodes (which has reduced) but no sign of cancer. I was only supposed to have 4 rounds of chemo pre-op but they are giving me another 2 as a bonus because the treatment is working so well. The smaller the better im told which is why im hoping its going to be keyhole.
Eddie
Rick_1138 said:
Well got home fine. Be in looked after by the Mrs.
Sleeping in spare room to avoid fidgeting, got 1989 batman on, heaps of pillows holding me up.
Main issues are indigestion, groin throbbing, and still very tender but happy to be home.
Lots of tablets in a bag.
Any update?Sleeping in spare room to avoid fidgeting, got 1989 batman on, heaps of pillows holding me up.
Main issues are indigestion, groin throbbing, and still very tender but happy to be home.
Lots of tablets in a bag.
Hope all is okay
jbudgie said:
ecain63 said:
Nobody has told me anything about surgery yet as the focus has been on shrinking as much as possible the bd tumour. It was 10cm at day 1 and its been heavily battered since with good results. Luckily the cancer is only in one place with minimal influence on surrounding tissue. There was some inflammation of a couple of nearby lymph nodes (which has reduced) but no sign of cancer.
I was only supposed to have 4 rounds of chemo pre-op but they are giving me another 2 as a bonus because the treatment is working so well. The smaller the better im told which is why im hoping its going to be keyhole.
Eddie
Let us know how things go Eddie.d tumour. It was 10cm at day 1 and its been heavily battered since with good results. Luckily the cancer is only in one place with minimal influence on surrounding tissue. There was some inflammation of a couple of nearby lymph nodes (which has reduced) but no sign of cancer. I was only supposed to have 4 rounds of chemo pre-op but they are giving me another 2 as a bonus because the treatment is working so well. The smaller the better im told which is why im hoping its going to be keyhole.
Eddie
Eddie
nail_it said:
Any update?
Hope all is okay
Yeah, sorry not been keeping up my notes during my 4 week incarceration in my flat hehe.Hope all is okay
All seems pretty good, no pain in the abdomen that I used to get so in that respect the surgery is a complete success.
The only issues now are tenderness in the scar (obviously) so sleeping on my front is still too sore but my body wants to do this when I fall asleep so I wake up in the night so tired a lot.
The other issue is that now I no longer have bowel pain, I find that I need the loo suddenly but its not often the runs, so going on trips is stressful, like it was some 10 years ago when I just had diarrhea etc, but hopefully when I go back on my Azathioprene in a few weeks that will settle down again as it worked before it just couldn't stop the scar area pain.
Other thing is just slightly below the base of the scar I get a tender\sharp twinge in the muscle, a friend thinks this could be an anchor stitch for the bowel that's dissolving and movement is still tender in that area but otherwise I get around fine.
Back to work now, doing 3 half days, then 3 full days next week and full time on the 31st boss has been ace and knows I am not taking the piss etc. I was off painkillers 2 weks ago so just take paracetamol or ibuprofen if needs be but that's rare.
Looking forward to seeing the specialist again and getting my meds back so I can plan holidays with mrs and not be so stressed as I have been for over a decade.
Its been great, just hoping the stinging pain I get now and then subsides, buying 3 guinea pigs was maybe a bad move with all the cleaning and bending, but its good exercise, and they are awful cute.
Titanfall is now taking up most of my free time till I go back to work properly, much to my GF's eye rolling
Glad I did it though, feel less painful, lost weight\no bloating, and feel more agile.
Got blood test today, but phoned the specialist last week myself as my GP hadn't, he was happy days for me starting again, so should start tomorrow.
Only thing pissing me off now is the dry skin on my arm I thought was dry skin is in fact ringworm...sigh, never had it before but was driving me barmy this morning, I now have a cream to apply....
Only thing pissing me off now is the dry skin on my arm I thought was dry skin is in fact ringworm...sigh, never had it before but was driving me barmy this morning, I now have a cream to apply....
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