Since my J-Pouch in 1997 it has been a Livable condition for a short time and then Diarrhea and Green burning stool until all is expelled (sometimes 10 times in an afternoon) Then just as quickly I am back to something livable for a few days. The good times are getting shorter all the time. Try as I might I cannot identify the food that causes me to go thru that terrible time. I am on Remicade every 8 weeks. The Doc tells me my pouch looks good and lets it go at that. Sometimes I call in a 6 day round of Prednizone and that helps for a while. My question for anybody that may have experienced similar problems: What if anything can be done to avoid all of that retching that is coming more and more frequently? Would it be some kind of a Gastric problem? My Doc is a Surgeon and might not be familiar with this particular problem.
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Yeah, if I were you, i'd accept thatthe pouch is fine a d you have something else going on, like maybe a funky gallbladder, dyspepsia, ar something else that is upper GI related. Regardless, not a surgical problem (yet), and you probably need a work up by your GI. All symptoms are not pouch related.
Jan
Jan
The green makes me think bile.
Have you tried a bile binder?
Have you tried a bile binder?
My Doc prescribed something that I haven't seen mentioned on this forum-Alinia, and it has helped so far. It gave me diarrhea at first but I cut the dosage in half and it gave me a livable condition. This Med was developed to treat cryptosporidium but for some reason it helps. Maybe someone can use this bit of info.