Pouchitis Question

I'm going to recommend giving your surgeon's office or your GI Office a call and let them know what's going on. ( I found that my primary doctor doesn't really know much about handling issues relating to the j pouch and I'm guessing the ER team is just about the same. ) I'm leaning on the side that you'll feel a lot better with an input from your surgeon/GI.

Praying you feel better and get some answers soon.

Definitely call your surgeon and if it gets worse go to ER. Good luck.

My first sign of nausea usually means I am dehydrated. Plain water at that point is not enough for me. If I can drink electrolytes I can sometimes avoid the ER.

Good luck.

After several issues with dehydration I now have the following on hand:

Nunn electrolyte tablets ( can find at vitamin shop or bike store)

potassium tablets

magnesium tablets 

Cinder23, if it turns out to be dehydration try to have some commercially prepared soup, especially clear broth. It won't go straight through you the way plain water will. I keep cartons of vegetable or beef broth in my cupboard. I also make my own. You can add rice or chicken or chopped vegetables and simmer for a simple soup, but the point is to get some sodium in. When I was leaving hospital after surgery, I was advised to eat potato chips or salted pretzels for the salt until my body adjusted to the loss of my colon, which absorbed and stored fluids. Good luck.

I always have 2 bottle of pedialite in the fridge. I am drinking average of 2l of water a day. Then I have other fluids. My pee is clear. No dry mouth and no headaches. I do not believe it’s dehydration. I have a call into my surgeon but am feeling a bit better today. I don’t feel as sick and weak and have had no hot flashes yet 

It may be iron or B12 deficiency if not due to dehydration. The fatigue is a common symptom in both. Once the colon in removed iron and B12 levels may go on the lower side very easily. Have you gotten any post op blood tests done ? 

You can try supplementing iron and Vitamin B tablets as they'll help recover from blood loss too.