Click on General Discussion. Then do a search for "failed j-pouch, needs excision." When the entries for that come up, scroll down to Roseviolet, which is me. I went through quite a bit of info here. Do NOT get a donut cushion. It will pull apart your butt cheeks and break open your stitches. You need a waffle cushion. Your hospital should give you one to use and they will send you home with it. There are those who thought the butt closing was painful, but in my case it was nothing more than a dull ache and I only needed the cushion for 3 or so weeks. I had dissolving sutures, so no need for removal pain, either. I really didn't  have to do anything special for this surgery or recuperation and since then it has been life as usual with no special needs.

Hey Roseviolet,

That's really useful, thank you .. just looked at the post you mentioned, d'oh, sorry I rehashed an old question! I thought I'd looked through most of them but I somehow missed that one, which is identical to what I was asking, I didn't mean to be that lazy!

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction, I was very close to just buying a doughnut cushion 🤣 shows what I know!

I'm glad your op went well and you had a good recovery tho 👌👌

FF 😊

FF, glad to be of help. If you have other concerns or questions, ask away. I was fry happy to have it over and done. Thinking about it was worse than actually having the surgery. --Rose