@Former Member posted:Yeah her videos helped me alot,she's on instagram and seems happy travelling with her boyfriend.alot of jpouch vloggers seem to get better and just disappear.lauren are you going 20 times a day because your a vegetarian? Have you tried husk to bulk up your output?
I totally agree, I do not have instagram but that is good to hear! I wonder if she is on here by any chance. And you are so right! A lot of J-pouch vloggers disappear after a while! I really wish they did not do that to be honest; I think there is always something to share about the J-pouch/ostomy.
Very good theory actually! I have been a vegetarian for almost 5 1/2 years. The vegetarian J-pouchers that I have come across do not go as much as I go. But that could definitely be true about what you said, but I personally think it would probably be the same for me. But then again, I have read and have been told by doctors that meat is more harder to digest than vegetarian food, so it could be true. I will never eat meat again because of ethical reasons so I will never find out lol.
I never tried Husk to thicken things up. I have tried loperamide though in the past; straight after Takedown, I think I was going around 30-40X a day, loperamide helped with that tremendously! After a while, Lopermide started to constipate me severely! So I stopped taking it 6 years ago. At least the 30-40X dropped to 14-20X a day. I do eat lots of Oatmeal and that bulks things up but I still go around 14-20X a day. Vegetarian food is higher in fiber anyway. I never tried anything else after loperamide, I get constipated easily ironically lol. Going 14-20X a day definitely has its hard days but I am just grateful my pouch is working to be honest, I would not change a thing because of that.
I never had pouchitis too, I think me having to empty all of the time saves me from pouchitis since I am constantly flushing out bacteria, that is a just a theory I believe in.
How many times a day do you go???