Hi Since1991,
This is my second reversal. I was disconnected in the summer because of pouchitis. I was very sick. I have had pouchitis for 15 years in various degrees.
I developed diversion pouchitis from the unused pouch. The cure is to reconnect or remove the pouch but because of my history it was recommended that I go on Entyvio to tame whatever underlining imflamatory condition that is causing me to keep getting pouchitis if I wanted to save it. I have been on every drug. This is a new one, that only targets the gut receptors from the nose down to the pouch.
So rather than pouch removal and since I hated the ostomy I decided to give this a try and was able to have my reversal Dec 10. Unfortunaetly my gut is compromised because the receptors that flight virus are being held in check by this drug.
I caught a upper respiratory at the hospital first, then caught this stomach bug. Taking longer for me to heal from all this.
Hope this makes sense. I hate IBD!