Sooo. I've been dealing with an abcess and fistulas for the last 6-8 months now with no success. I've had drains put in and taken out. The infection still hasn't gone away so the next step is to have another procedure to go through the incision in my stomach to clean out the rest of it and I will be going back to an illeostomy bag for a little while. As of now with the scans and everything the pouch has now been affected so hopefully my surgeon can go in and clean the infection and everything will dry up and the pouch will be in tact still. If the pouch is infected he says it will have to get scrapped at that point then a pouch redo but I feel that is too big of a surgery for me to endure so I would probably just stick with the bag. Any advice would be highly appreciated.
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