Hello everyone! I’m just curious of when those who got J-Pouches done, when the soreness went away? Specifically the soreness of the rectum if there are some who still have theirs like I do. I have no problem going but being a week and a half post op I can feel the heartbeat of my rectum 😭 I know it has to go back to being normal and I still have to heal I’m just curious how everyone else did with their recovery and soreness
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I was still in the hospital after a week and a half. Try to be patient with your body - it’s been through a lot.
Your response doesn’t even help. I know my body still has to heal. Maybe you should only answer if you actually want to share your experience.
I had mine done 10/2016 and it still has a heartbeat most of the time. Everyone heals different.
I've had mine a year and a couple of months. Mine backside stopped being sore after about a month.
If you want the truth from experience.
I had mine two years and it never stopped hurting.
Only way I got it to stop was to remove my pouch.
True story.
Although Scott spoke the truth and didn't go into detail is no reason. I will stop now.
Truth is it may never stop hurting like mine did. I'm not sugar coating anything. I went through hell.
Give it time like Scott said. He does speak from experience. Your only a week and a half out. And like he said your body went through hell to get where your at. (basically) Healing takes months. And months. And sometimes like me your body never adjusts.
I'm speaking from experience.
Good luck. (really) I wish no I'll will on anyone. This is a really horrible surgery to go through and adjust to.
Richard.
Scott is right, it will take time, your body has been through a major ordeal, organs pushed aside, removed, and a new one constructed. This causes swelling, bruising, pain from everywhere whether you're sitting, standing, lying down. It took me several months (6?) before I could sit without pain shooting from my bottom into my abdomen, from fire burning BMs, constant issues everyday. I thought it would never end, until one day, out of the blue, it was so much better. My pouch learned to live it's new life, function became manageable, no leakage, no pain, swelling in my abdomen finally went down, and I could eat what I wanted. I took great care from day 1 after surgery by eating high protein foods, nothing raw or rough or spicy, no insoluble fiber, so that my pouch did not have to work too hard at first, so it had time to heal and mature. Now at 3 years I sometimes forget I have a pouch. It gave me my life back. You are very early days, but every day your pouch will mature and learn.
Yeah you are all too late with answers. I’m fine now.
That’s great for you. You may want to talk to your nurse about other patients you can talk to directly if ever you have questions that require immediate response. Everyone on this forum is awesome and have lives outside of this webpage so they try and stop by and try and answer some of us newbies questions as best they can their is no need to be rude with people who are only trying to help maybe the response didn’t come through fast enough for you but there is a search area on this sight where you can type in a question and it will give you a list of things to read that others have posted. As you can imagine all of us here have had the same questions at some point so just search through the topics. Best of luck to you and I hope you continue healing well and pain free!!
