Im curious how long the stay in hospital normally is for step 2 (jpouch) and 3 TD? i know everyone is different bout healing and such just trying to get a ballpark....and get ready for the vampires at 3am ..."are you asleep well i need to get some blood so WAKE UP"



Step one done already was a 6 day stay at hotel John Hopkins

hey,

I was in the hospital for about 10 days with step 2. and 4 days with the td. You will do just fine. good luck.
Angela

I was in 5 days after step 2 and 4 days after step 3.

6 days for step 2 and 3 days for takedown.

I was in the hospital about a week for step 2 and the same for step 3. My doctor was very cautious and had me take everything very slowly...liquids for a few days and then slowly added more solid foods. It was a longer process, but worked well for me!

I had UC for 7 years, and have been reading this site since Feb. of this year after I decided to have the J-pouch surgery. I am curious to find out what most of you are calling step 1, whereas I only have had what you are calling step 2 and 3.

My first surgery was April 5, 2007 and I was in the hospital for 6 day's, wore the bag for 3 months and had what you are calling the take down on Monday July 9th(yesterday).

I came home late this afternoon, only one day after the surgery. I feel that I have been really blessed with a very smooth recovery so far. After reading so many things about the BUTT BURN I thought for sure it was going to be horrible, but so far nothing like that has happened yet. Is this common or has the storm just not hit me yet?

I have my 1st child due in about 3 weeks so I am hoping for the best for recovery. So far so good. This site has been very helpful and I am looking forward to seeing how everyone recovers from these operations.

I was in the hospital 30 days for step 2. Not the norm but obviously possible.

travis

1. removal of colon
2. jpouch creation
3. connection or TD

as far as recovery i was down and out (took it easy)for bout 2-3 weeks then back to helping people see in the NoVA area

Kinetic703,

So your removal of colon and jpouch creation were done on seperate operations?

I was pretty much in bed for 2-3 weeks after the 1st surgery, and went back to work in about 6-7 weeks. Like I said I just got home from the 2nd surgery, they told me about a month of time off of work and no lifting of 20 pounds. It's 3:30 and I just woke up after 2hrs of sleep and was freezing cold and shaking but still no BUTT BURN. Thanks for the info.

I had my rectum removed due to rectal cancer on June 6th. At the same time my surgeon created a j-pouch and a temporary ileostomy. I was in the hospital for 7 days. I didn't even have an appetite for the first day and became neauseous for the next 4 days. I was put on a liquid diet for the first few days in the hospital and then attempted a soft food diet. It was hard to keep anything down. i was give antinausea meds that helped a lot. Then the day before I was released, my tummy began to feel better and was able to eat a little more. To my surgeon's surproze, I wasn't in much pain, especially with all the work that was done down there.

To have TD, was there 48 hours, then returned 3 days latter for 5 days. Don't go home too soon.