Hi everyone! I'm 5 months out of takedown. If you've been following my story, I've been battling leakage and incontinence since my takedown. For the first couple months, I was having accidents every day, then it lessened to every few days, but it never went away.
About 3 weeks ago, I started feeling really good about my pouch. I was still going maybe 8 times a day and 2-3 at night, but I felt like I could usually hold it longer and knew when the pouch was full.
About a week ago I started getting more leakage and having more accidents. One day I had 4 accidents! I called the surgeon and he put me on cipro. I've been on cipro for two days now and I have much much much less bm and urgency. I leaked a bit yesterday, but only had to go a few times. Last night I only woke up twice, just to urinate. Today I have had I think only two bowel movements, both with low urgency.
Is this a good thing? Lol. Is this how it is supposed to be? I hope the cipro fixes whatever the problem is/was. The surgeon said he also wants to get me in soon for a scope.
Could I have had pouchitis the whole time? It was suggested to me a couple times on this forum.
Thanks!
Katie
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