Reply to "Jpouch issues"

Jan DollarModerator, RN, retired

While it does make sense to consider ileostomy to be free of drugs that may cause adverse side effects, it is by no means any sort of gaurantee. If that is your only reason, then it may be worth rethinking. However, if you are unable to get the cuffitis/pouchitis under control to your satisfaction, it is a reasonable approach.

The reason I bring up the issue about medications is because you may still need the vary same ones eventually.

A decade after colectomy, I was diagnosed with enteropathic arthritis and wound up back on Azulfidine and then biologics (Enbrel, Humira, and now Simponi). Sometimes I need a short course of prednisone. This is independent of the bowel disease in my case, and ileostomy would not have made a difference.

I am not saying that ileostomy is not a good choice, but that you should not associate your future happiness on not taking drugs. None of us know what our future holds.

Jan

10/7/1311:45 AM

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