Pouchitis or just another bacteria?

It very well could be pouchitis. If you normally sleep through the night and now you are needing to get up and having urgency when you weren't, that's definitely a sign. Also, if it came on suddenly, possible it's a stomach bug too. There's so many of those going around now.

Sounds like a blockage.

They can take a few days to become apparent sometimes. But if you are eating a variety of food, yet only watery liquid is passing, then that food's gotta be somewhere....

Eating yogurt and probiotics is always good. But I don't know if I would assume right away that bacteria is your immediate problem. In my experience, blockages have been physical - meaning I ate too much fibrous stuff at once, without chewing good, like oranges.

Certainly inflammation can cause them too, so don't dismiss pouchitis, torsion, or or other inflamation type obstruction.

It's all possible, but it will probably pass.

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They can take a few days to become apparent sometimes. But if you are eating a variety of food, yet only watery liquid is passing, then that food's gotta be somewhere....

You know, I ask myself this question all the time since my output is normally very watery and seems like it rarely has solids in it. I eat a ton of food so seriously, where does all the fibrous matter go?? I guess it's just dissolved or in suspension in the water that I'm not absorbing.

Thanks, guys, for all your comments.

It's hard to know what's normal when you have a pouch. I'm also the same way. I get watery stools most if the time bland eat a lot if veggies and protein but I also question where all the food goes...??

I ended up seeing my surgeon Friday. He wasn't there so another new surgeon saw me and he prescribed probiotics. He figured since there was no fever that I should be ok with just probiotics.

The next day, though, I was nauseous and hadn't eaten so this time I went to see my regular GI and he just gave me some IV for dehydration and did some blood tests and said it showed only a tiny bit of inflammation (CPR level 1.6) and gave me loxonin (loxoprofen) for my headache and released me.
I was able to eat soft noodles and steamed stuff but during the night, I had leaked and after coming back to bed I had such bad chills. Even with the heating pad on, I took my temperature and it was 101 F. After about 2 hours, my fever started slowly decreasing. I get paranoid when these things happen because I don't know what's normal. Loxoprofen is a pretty strong med...could that have caused more inflammation that caused chills..? I feel much better now but still feel a bit cold.

On another hand, I recently bumped my head on the right side when trying to grab a box from the storage and get headaches from time to time..That couldn't have possibly caused my chills..?

Sorry I'm all over the place...ugh I meet with my GI Monday again.