Bowel surgery for Cronh's, any experience
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Night 3 after surgery....its a bit stingy. Getting up to pea every few hours in a jar loses its appeal quickly. Wound if fine apart from 3 areas, 1 just above the groin hurts like feck especially when walking.
A chest x-ray at midnight was an interesting trip. As was a shot load of blood being taken and new venflon.
This is to check for any chest infections. So tired but tender so hard to relax. Nurses are er friendly and gave me painkillers just now.
It's at this time you realise tablets and bowel pain may have been acceptable to live with lol.
A chest x-ray at midnight was an interesting trip. As was a shot load of blood being taken and new venflon.
This is to check for any chest infections. So tired but tender so hard to relax. Nurses are er friendly and gave me painkillers just now.
It's at this time you realise tablets and bowel pain may have been acceptable to live with lol.
I had a catheter for the first 2 days, was fitted during surgery. Removing was weird but not especially painful, more burning. Had some wind. Surgeon came to see me, gave the juniors a bit of a b
king for giving me chest infection antibiotics and not regular ones as no real evidence to suggest.
He says I look great and all went well so I get to walk about ward and have some tea now snacks and all being well with an x-ray last night I may get home tomorrow!
king for giving me chest infection antibiotics and not regular ones as no real evidence to suggest. He says I look great and all went well so I get to walk about ward and have some tea now snacks and all being well with an x-ray last night I may get home tomorrow!
Yeah only in since Wednesday and docs are very happy. Seems doing stuff on right hand side has less complications etc with blood vessels etc.
Hopefully will get good pain relief stuff and plan of action before leaving.
Also bed space is at a premium so if I am okay after tonight what with getting up to pee etc I should be okay. Only issue is I haven't had a no2 yet but have passed wind.
Seems it was less of the small bowel than expected. More the ileum, appendix and start of large. This may make it simpler.
Hopefully will get good pain relief stuff and plan of action before leaving.
Also bed space is at a premium so if I am okay after tonight what with getting up to pee etc I should be okay. Only issue is I haven't had a no2 yet but have passed wind.
Seems it was less of the small bowel than expected. More the ileum, appendix and start of large. This may make it simpler.
Mine was complicated as I got MRSA. As mine was emergency surgery they didn't have time to do all the stuff with the bacteria cream so I was unlucky. Ended up spending over 6 months off work recovering. Didn't say anything before your op as I was very unlucky and didn't want to worry you.
I was in for 3 weeks, home for a week then admitted again for another week while they derided the wound. I now have no belly button which is pretty cool!
I was in for 3 weeks, home for a week then admitted again for another week while they derided the wound. I now have no belly button which is pretty cool!
That sounds pretty harsh. Luckily mine was well planned and had prep etc. So hopefully went well and they knew what to look for from previous MRI and scans. Fingers crossed it's as routine as it seems and take each day as it comes.
Does the first time you go for no2 does it hurt or is it more normal?
Does the first time you go for no2 does it hurt or is it more normal?
Rick_1138 said:
It's at this time you realise tablets and bowel pain may have been acceptable to live with lol.
That is among the many things i stressed to my consultant this week - that i would rather live on pills forever than have surgery. He wasnt happy with this, and is still trying to push immunosuppresants on me- again, no thanks.Thankfully i get no side effects from the steroids (and i keep a high intake of calcium for my bones!) and zero symptoms when on them, but its not exactly an ideal thing for the long term, so i am in the process of arranging a fecal microbiota transplantation (also known as FMT). Encouraging results from the limited studies that have been done.
Worth a shot i feel!
Edited by GCH on Saturday 8th February 22:11
Well its not quite like that, as it is really just the bacterial content ... but yes!
I have had good responses to VSL3, again supporting the school of thought that this is all caused by bacteria imbalance, which FMT addresses.
'ew' was pretty much my consultants initial reaction too
and i imagine will provoke a similar reaction from most..
I have had good responses to VSL3, again supporting the school of thought that this is all caused by bacteria imbalance, which FMT addresses.
'ew' was pretty much my consultants initial reaction too
and i imagine will provoke a similar reaction from most..Well after being very distended and the nurse hadn't known I was supposed to get morphine replacement I ended up going to loo to pass wind. Was in fact the whole event. No dramas just visit loose and asked for a pad incase I miss the next departure. Feel much happier but still very tender. You forget that you are not supposed to be in pain so don't think to ask for pain relief when obviously in distress.
Hopefully can move onto wound pain levelling and getting home in the next week
Hopefully can move onto wound pain levelling and getting home in the next week
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