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Momma,

I attended the University of Connecticut 1981-1985 when my ulcerative colitis was at its peak ((although my colectomy didn’t happen until age 29). Back in those days, I lived in Sprague Hall which was an all-male dorm. UConn’s Office of Reaidential Life, I think based on a letter from my gastroenterologist at the time, acted upon my special request and gave me a “medical single” across the hall from the communal men’s bathroom. What this meant was I had a small room, and no roommate, in a dorm in which their were numerous single rooms (some of which were other guys with medical conditions and some were athletes on the school football and basketball team). It was a perfect arrangement because in those days pre - J Pouch I had to sprint to the bathroom and it was literally across the hall from me. The room was also adjacent to a payphone (cellphones didn’t exist at that time) and the front entrance to the dorm, so the downside to that arrangement was my room was in a high foot traffic area and also facing the street (Route 195) so was kind of noisy at times. But overall it worked out well and I lived in Sprague Hall for all 4 years.

Sprague Hall is still there at UConn, but I think it’s now co-ed (I could be wrong) and it’s definitely kept locked 24/7 (unlike when I was there).

I am sure most large universities could accomodate such a request. Make sure u get a letter from the GI and good luck.

CTBarrister
Last edited by CTBarrister

I work at a university and help students with accomodarions like this. You should get documentation from the doctor and work with Residence Life to see if you can get a single. You can also work with the Center for Students with Disabilities, or something like that, because by law, they have to accommodate you based on the docs suggestions. 

Good luck. 

B
Last edited by Bubba1028

In the 90s when I was in college, I got a letter from my doc (I missed fall semester due to colon/pouch surgeries) that I needed easier access to a bathroom.  Typically at the sophomore level you were getting put 4 people to a 2 bedroom apartment with 1 bathroom.  I got permission to get a 1 bedroom, 2 people, 1 bathroom set up. After that my bathroom habits had pretty much normalized, so I never requested anything else special.

J

My personal opinion is you are better off with a bigger communal bathroom with numerous stalls (situation I had at UConn in post described above) than sharing a single toilet with a few people. Reason why is people with IBD tend to monopolize a toilet, as well as the omnipresent toilet availability issue. This was never an issue for me at UConn nor did I have to worry about someone being in a single toilet when I had to make the mad UC rush to the bathroom. UC is characterized by incontinence of a severe nature although pouchitis can also lead to incontinence. If there is a bunch of stalls and one is always free it’s a nonissue. For my condition a single toilet set up shared with others would not have worked well.

CTBarrister
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