Hello,
I just wanted to log-in here, nine years to the day since my colon ruptured from a particularly aggressive, new case of UC.
I found this forum after, when I was healing and waiting on the J-Pouch surgeries.
I was afraid, angry, and I found answers to a lot of my questions here.
One thing I kept reading was that the vast majority of patients aren’t here because they have good results.
That has been my experience; my life and my guts are in reasonable harmony. Do I wish I was a once-a-day pooper and that farts were still a solo act? Sure do.
But I can not complain, I don’t feel any limitations in my day-to-day life, and have seen continual improvement, including, in the last year, regularly sleeping for 6-9 hours without having to get up, which has been massive for me.
So, basically, having to find this forum sucks. But if you’re scared and angry, as I was, it could work out ok for you, as it has for me.