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Two weeks out, this sounds pretty typical. Expect very gradual improvement and a noticeable change by around the 3 month mark.

Are you taking any bowel slowers or adjusting your diet? I was taking maximum dose Imodium as soon as I was allowed to eat, but it was still a lot of frequency. But, I had no full blown accidents. Just a little leakage here and there.

Jan

I had the same problems.
They ease up slowly.
I am 9 months out and still adjusting and improving.
I feel I still have a long way to go to get to some kind of normal. Patience. Just have to understand improvements are slow. Very slow. But they do come.
Good luck to you.

I also felt like I may as well have colitis again. Psyllium, Imodium, patience, and time. I'm just over three months out and there was a qualitative change for me at the 3 month mark.

thanks everyone for the comments, these are very helpful. I don't feel so alone now. I'm a teacher and was hoping to get back to work at the end of August so I was wondering when to expect things to slow down a bit. Had a much better day/night yesterday with only 10 BM the day before 12 so I am slowy making progress. Now if I could just get rid of the incontience. This is the only thing that could stop me from going back to work. I have been off work since last May (2013) and I am ready to get back to "normal". I using 2 immodium in morning and 2 at dinner. This has seem to slow things down a bit. Still eating the low fiber/low residue diet. Which is very boring and bland but don't want to change since I am starting to make progress. Any other tips/advice would be appreciated.

If the incontinence persists in spite of your doing kegels regularly, it could potentially be an early developing pouchitis. Many people never experience any incontinence at all. If it keeps improving you're probably fine, though.

You can use up to 8 Imodium a day. I needed that dose for years in order to function. But, I did have undiagnosed cuffitis. Silly me for putting up with it.

Jan

Jan what is cuffitis?

Inflammation of the retained rectal cuff. Like UC in that little rim of rectum. If there is bleeding, it is most likely cuffitis.

Jan