I had a sigmoidoscopy yesterday and my doctor found a foreign body in my pouch. He says “it was a surgical clip, he removed it and it was no big deal”. Really??!! How can that be no big deal??? I have been in significant pain since being hospitalized in January, 2020 for pouchitis. It had not resolved despite the 4 day stay on gut rest and on antibiotics, nor on xifaxin at home after release, 3 or 4 rounds of Cypro that followed, Rowasa enemas, Alosetron, mesalamine, and budesonide. The only relief I ever got was on the cypro, but all pain and symptoms returned when Rx was completed. My dr refused to give me cypro long term because of eventual immunity to it. Currently and for the last 24 hours I have no pain, no diarrhea, no excessive gas, no bloating. Could all the pain have been caused by the surgical clip? Can the relief of all my symptoms be real and because this foreign object in my pouch was removed? I have searched the internet everywhere with multiple searches to see if this is a common occurrence but cannot find a single thing. History: My j pouch surgery was 22 years ago, I had my gall bladder removed about 12 years ago, and a biliary stent placed and removed in November, 2019.
Has anyone experienced or even heard of a surgical clip found in a j pouch or anything similar?
