Thanks for your reply, TF. Would you want to be in a private chat with one other person who responded to another post I made about discussing better coping tips for those of us who have had J-pouches for awhile (I first said at least ten years, but you have had yours awhile now to know things about it!!!) and are relatively healthy? I know many who come on this site are dealing with lots and lots of medical issues and I think (thankfully) that mine are not medical issues as such, more like... fine tuning things and thinking about and discussing how to live a better life with the pouch!!! If you also wanted to discuss publicly, I'd like to start yet another topic line but have it more streamlined to attract like minded folks.. if you had an idea of a topic line for that, let me know.I don't want folks who have other types of pouches to give me advice about a J-pouch, that is not helpful, nor do I want people to come on here and tell me generalizations about what they read here.. I am looking for folks who have a j pouch for a while, living pretty comfortably with it but might have a method of this or that in dealing with some aspect of it that could be helpful for me to hear about!! Thanks!!