foods and meds after takedown

I pretty much stayed with the same diet and cautions as with the temporary ileostomy. No popcorn,nuts,especially peanuts,or chunky vegetables.
As time went on,I slowly tried more and more of the "caution foods " until I knew they wouldn't cause problems. My surgeon also reminded me that from then on, to be more conscious of chewing food well.

Hi Dawn,
If you have a hand held blender you can do a lot and eat a lot of different things.
Start out with bland foods like mashed potatoes, eggs (scrambled or hard boiled), simple pasta without spicey sauces, toast, applesauce, rice, bananas and some canned soups, especially if you are emptying your pouch a lot...the soups have a lot of sodium in them so that you dehydrate less...drink lots of fluids too. Water and juices watered down a bit.
Always start out with small quantites when trying new foods. Test them a couple of times before integrating them into your diet. I use a hand blender a lot. Fiber is not my friend ( I have a k pouch and I empty it through a tube so anything fiberous gets stuck or clogs it) so everything from vegetable salads to stews gets blended into a soup or cold soups like gaspatchos...they have all of the vitamins but do not cause me any problems.
Keep us posted on your progress
Sharon

Immediately afterward, make sure to chew things well and try to stay toward relatively bland foods while you are healing. Ritz crackers and peanut butter got me through the first week! Pasta is good too, just be careful of tomato sauce, as it's got a lot of acid in it and that will not be pretty on your newly minted bum. Not sure what your doc's advice was on meds; my surgeon preferred that I got through the first month or so without lomotil or anything just so my body could get used to its new setup without any pharmaceutical interference. Even now, any time I'm hospitalized for an obstruction, I stay away from lomotil for a week or two afterward until my body is back at its baseline.

Greek yogurt, no sugar applesauce, white bread, pasta, rice, cottage cheese, scrambled eggs, mashed potatoes, grilled cheese, turkey and chicken, potato chips, pretzels, crackers, tuna, any kind of non-spicy soup without fiber, creamy peanut butter.

I did very low residue like that for probably a week and then slowly introduced more low-ish fiber foods like well cooked veggies, fruits without skin/seeds, red meat, etc.

I'm a year out and still slowly introducing higher fiber foods. It took about a year but corn/popcorn are now OK to eat for me

No meds except for Tylenol for pain management for the first week or so.