Also a month post takedown how were you? Were you able to go out and live life? Or were you still stuck in the house.

I had the same issues prior to takedown--diversional pouchitis was what my surgeon referred to it as. Unfortunately for me I still have it and it is chronic 16 months later. That does not mean it will be the case for you. I do take daily augmentin to help with the pouchitis as without it, my pouch goes haywire.

I would ask your surgeon about his experience with this. Most will tell you it is very common to excrete mucus via your jpouch when you have a temporary ostomy
and then when your takedown is complete, it will correct itself once stool starts passing through the pouch.

I am bothered about you ilietis diagnosis as at my last scope prior to my colectomy, I was also diagnosed with ilietus (referred to as backwash colitis). My surgeon was not concerned about this, but now I am wondering if there is a correlation to chronic pouchitis due to this and maybe we are not the best candidates for jpouch surgery if we have a pre-surgery or pre-takedown ilietis diagnosis. Again, only your surgeon can best answer this question for you based upon his experience.
Good luck.

That mucus you have now will help the effluent move on through and exit very easily once you're reconnected. You won't even realize the mucus is there. Without it you would feel constipated!

I had mucous after my second surgery J-Pouch formed, my surgeon told me this ahead of time so I knew it was a possibility I had it only about 2 times after my second told me it was normal to have mucous the pouch even though not functioning gives off mucous. But talk to your doctor, everyone is different.

I had the J Pouch in 3 steps, I wore the ostomy bag for 9 months and I had to pass mucous once a day or once every other day for the whole 9 months. Doctor told me it was nothing to worry about. I'm one month after takedown right now and I have been able to go out no problem. I wouldn't plan anything the first couple weeks though. I just too my son to an airshow last weekend where I was away from home for 8 hours, only went to the bathroom once this whole time. I avoided stuffing my face at the airshow so that helped.

You should most definitely have to pass some mucus every now and then. The cells in the lining of your intestine are constantly churning out mucus to basically lubricate the tract. The excess mucus usually comes out with everything else, but since nothing is coming out right now it's just going to be mucus on its own.