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I have never felt completely comfortable with the pouch.  Part of my anxiety though has to do with the PTSD that follows surgery.  I got the major hack job type of colectomy in 2004, not the laproscopic type of surgery which seems less horrific and violent, but I don't really know.  Either way, the body remembers what happened even if the conscious mind was knocked out.  For me, there are muscles all around that area that are on guard at all hours.  That is an anxiety/post-trauma response.  I'm working on that through yoga. The sympathetic nervous system is difficult to override! 

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