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On Friday evening I started getting liquid only output in my bag ( I had j pouch with loop ileostomy surgery about 5 weeks ago). I then started to get really bad abdominal cramps. This lasted until yesterday evening. Since then the pains have stopped but my bowel feels tender. I am getting a lot of gas and still very liquid output. Yesterday I hardly had any solid foods, just fluids but today I am eati again.

I stopped taking Imodium during the blockage epsiode but generally does it take a few days for things to go back to normal after a blockage?
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Shainy, I'm sorry to hear you're having this issue. I'm 17 years post take-down and have had a number of partial or complete bowel obstructions.
My bowels have been tender for even a couple of weeks after the obstruction resolved itself. So far I've not needed any surgical intervention, thank goodness!
My doctor always advises me to eat soft foods for a time after I leave the hospital. You didn't say if you'd been hospitalized but I always had to go because the pain was so bad.
As Jan said chew that food!

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