I was not a very good candidate for a J pouch and they had a lot of trouble with the blood supply during surgery. I ended up with incontinence made worse by some pouchitis, continual butt burn was another lovely result. Any way, the Pouch was restricting my life so I first had it disconnected and then later excised. Adhesions can be a real problem for pouch removal and I had a lot of them. I had the surgery done in San Francisco at Kaiser they have two main colo-rectal surgeons that do this kind of surgery and both worked on me. One didnt think it could be done laparoscopically due to the adhesions but they persisted and completed the surgery with the laparoscope I am sure it took longer than with an open surgery

Who were your Kaiser surgeons in SF? Curious, as I am with Kaiser too, and my surgeon no longer does j-pouch (he heads up the bariatric surgery dept over here in Fremont/Hayward now). Always good to know some people...

I had a great lapro general surgeon for an adrenalectomy a few years ago, but don't know if he's into colo-rectal.

Jan

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Who were your Kaiser surgeons in SF

Dr Alkorashi is my main surgeon, Dr Stricker is the other surgeon who helped with the excision