Nice to hear your pouch surgery went well but this isn't a vaccine forum. You're only going to create division with your comments. There's no need to bring this here.

I agree and edited the post.

Jan

The vaccine is the cause of my Surgery. And my Bone Marrow Transplant. We would I need to change this? I'm putting my Story out for others to feel comfortable talking about there's as well. As well as to know my end result .

I had a Total Colectomy with a J-pouch. And this form is the perfect place for me to get support as well as give support .

I am a Nurse and therefore I am very well educated.

I have had some

Sure, this might be a place to discuss your issues. However, this is the first mention by you that the vaccine is the reason for your colectomy. Prior posts indicate your primary issue was ulcerative colitis. Has it been verified that this all is directly the result of your vaccine, or is it simply coincidental? I am not saying one way or the other, but if you have a vaccine then get pneumonia, it is not necessarily causation.

I have not read of any association of bone marrow failure (aplastic anemia) with the Covid 19 vaccines. I am not saying it is not possible. I have read about Covid 19 causing bone marrow damage.

What we do not want here is any sort of talk about vaccines being pushed on anyone or them being unsafe or untested. Even if there are documented serious side effects and deaths associated with the vaccines, they are minuscule compared to the death and serious illness associated with Covid 19. It just does not seem that way to the few that are affected.

Jan

Thanks Jan. I am a retired health care worker as well.  I appreciate your comments. Reneawes, I'm glad you are doing well!  Praying for successful bone marrow outcome!  I would suggest that you take your time in adding foods to your diet. I've had my J-pouch for 30 years and I was recently hospitalized from eating a Romaine salad and raw carrots.  The scar tissue develops over time and is often involved. Here's to your health!

One of the things I have noticed on this website, and also on the thyroid cancer website when I posted there while treating, was a tendency by many posters to make anecdotal or circumstantial conclusions as to cause and effect relationships between some event or circumstance and a health outcome. I think it's a natural human tendency to indulge these kinds of things to blame a diagnosis on some event or causal factor without really knowing if it's true or not. Just for example, after I was diagnosed with stage 3 papillary thyroid cancer, I saw some threads on that board in which the cancers were blamed on dental x-rays. Dental x rays do expose us to a minimal amount of radiation and radiation exposure can be the cause of such cancers, but it's essentially unprovable in any particular case, one way or the other, based on science.

I think part of the process of "healing" from a health trauma is to have " emotional closure" on a reason for the diagnosis, and establishing a cause effect relationship in one's own mind helps or assists in doing that. I think it may be even more important for a person who is a health professional and as such is in the business of determining cause and effect for and then treating medical issues. So I get why it happens a lot.

But I too applaud the post of Jan because we really don't know the cause and effect of the Covid vaccines with these issues, and given all that is going on right now in our country and the world, we have to be careful not to encourage a divisive debate or advocate a course of action based on possible but largely unknown cause and effect outcomes. It fosters divisiveness on this board, much like one poster who constantly chimed in on marijuana and alcohol threads to warn that those substances are "evil", "ungodly" and should never be consumed, especially by persons with "fragile" J pouches. We should all be able to report the facts and circumstances of our own experiences, but let's leave out the spin and the anecdotal cause-effect conclusions, and defer to actual valid scientific studies on those same cause-effect relationships (if in fact there are any).

Also, Jan herself is a Retired RN and knows this as well as anyone.

Thanks CT!