Just to clarify: I had a fully connected J Pouch for about18 months, 2 step surgery. It was pretty much a disaster. I had incontinence from day one. I believe I was damaged in the original surgery which was very difficult. After getting to the point where my life really sucked I first went to an end ileo with the J pouch left in place. Beautiful... then after a month or so the excretions from the pouch began and got worse, they were not controllable, they didn't burn like the incontinence which was good but still a real mess. They say the excretions are caused by the pouch being in effect starved, because it is out of the excrement stream and just sitting there doing nothing but they really don't know. Most people that go this route have problems but oddly some don't. So after about 6 months of this I had the pouch removed which is a tricky operation and you need a surgeon experienced in removals to do it, and as was said no BB. My anal canal is intact and there is a tiny bit of the old pouch connection which had a mucosectomy when I got the pouch. After that its been roses, roses... well maybe not quite but my life is not restricted by having the end ileo. Tiny amount of mild smelling mucus which I remove in a shower once a day. That's it. Well I do have a bag which I change twice a week and empty maybe 5 times a day. Of course if I had it to do again I would say no to the J. and go with the ileo. But it was what it was.