Long term prospects of J pouch and FAP

ScaramoucheMember

I'm about to get my colon removed (this year) because of FAP and I've spent some time reading posts here. My grandmother died of colon cancer, my father had his colon removed 37 years ago (he's still alive) and got ileostomy (ileoanastomosis wasn't an option back then in our country). Two years ago I did a colonoscopy and I didn't have any polyp. I'm 28 and two months ago I had hundreds of polyps. Doctor who performed colonoscopy and gastroscopy checked for polyps in the beginning and ending of small intestine and didn't find any.

Here I read that it happens that people get their j-pouch removed years after their initial surgery. Is this something that often happens? I got scared a bit reading about FAP.

6/10/217:29 PM

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