J-pouch, pregnant and diarrhea!

Doctors used to tell me when I had UC that with pregnancy, about 1/3 of people will experience positive effects, 1/3 negative effects, and 1/3 no change. That might go for the J-pouch as well. You are more susceptible to getting pouchitis and bowel obstructions when you are pregnant so keep that in mind. The surge in horomones SHOULD cause your digestion to slow, at least in the first trimester. Doesn't mean you'll experience that necessarily, but for me, I was down to going once or maybe twice a day early on. For now, since it's so early for you, I would just wait another week and see what happens. In the mean time, make sure you are staying hydrated with the diarrhea. You could also have a virus that needs to clear itself out. Hope that's all it is and you get back to feeling well soon! And congratulations :-)

CONGRATULATIONS! So exciting. I am now just 10 days away from my delivery date - I also had a flare of symptoms during my pregnancy (including diarrhea the whole time... I wouldn't mind a little constipation). It took a while to diagnose for various reasons, but turns out it is pouchitis which is now being treated. My advice to you is get it checked out and treated as soon as possible. Because I let the pouchitis go too long, I had a lot of trouble gaining weight when I needed it.