If you are willing to come to Illinois, why not come a little further and go to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. Anyone on the GI staff here will be excellent. Our surgeons are excellent, too.


I'm a satisfied customer.

2 step J pouch 2006-7.


Good luck to you,

Mark

Thanks Mark but my daughter is at college in Chicago and does not have a car to get to Mayo. I wish she were close to Mayo.

I saw her awhile back for the same reasons. She is fine if you just need a script for antibiotics or otherwise know exactly what you want. That said, if you are having any serious pouch issues, no one at Northwestern or Chicago even comes close to the people at Cleveland Clinic. I live in Chicago, but go to Cleveland Clinic when I have issues. You average GI just doesn't see enough pouches day-to-day to really understand all the things that can go wrong with them.

If you can't get out of Chicago, the group at Northwestern should be fine. They (including Dr. Yun) certainly treat people with cuffitis and pouchitis problems. Northwestern also has two Cleveland Clinic trained colorectal surgeons.

Thank you for the information Nomoremeds!

I had my j-pouch surgeries done with the doctors at the University of Chicago Medical Center. I highly recommend them and their staff. I can give you their names via IM if you'd like.

Thanks Dog. I pm'd you.

Never got an IM, so I'll just reply here.

Doctor Konstantin Umanskiy
University of Chicago Medical Center
Chicago, IL 60637

Thanks. Maybe it went to spam? I'm going to resend it because I had another question if you don't mind.

Private Messaging is not the same as IM. If you do not have your notification settings so that you receive an email, you will not know about it until you come here and see the flashing tab.

Jan