tmi & not for the easily grossed out!

Haaaa - I can picture it.....  - this is the good life...of the pouchers, ex pouchers, future pouchers, etc.  - ya gotta laugh.  It's so absurd.  I never think about this, but the other day for some reason I thought - I wonder what it's like to take a normal shit.  Have no idea - cannot remember. 

Calamari (unless really good) usually overrated - but that's just me. Hope your toilet or loo enjoyed it!

If your easily grossed out you sure don't belong anywhere on this website.  I had my pouch removed just so I don't have to deal with anything coming out down there... But especially pouch problems.  Nope didn't want it. 

May I ask why they left yours in?  My surgeon actually told me.... We have a good relationship..... So she wasnt being mean or anything... .. She told me she wouldn't do the surgery unless she could remove it.  

That is what took me so long to decide.  But I know it was the right thing to do. 

And yes.... Even with a pouch I never had a true... Ahhhh... Sheet.... I unlike you still have a faint memory of it.  Oh well.  I don't regret anything I've done so far.  

Richard. 

P. S.  What the heck is calamari?  Sounds like squid in the toilet!  Lol. 

Calamari=Squid prepared as food 

Comes from the Latin word origin.

Jan

Nope.  Don't think I could eat that! 

Oh, man! I've seen my salads in there but I think that would've traumatized me!

So I have a jelly fish for a pouch and you are pooping squid! Make a nice pair...anyone for muscles?

ha!  Sharon  - you are so adorable - you really are.  Thanks for being on this site.  I feel like a have a friend or two in Paris

You do...I would love to organise a Paris Week for all of my k pouch/J pouch friends but don't know if it is a good idea at the moment...do not need to add terrorism to your  already complicated lives.

Sharon

I know what you mean - now does not seem the time - but I too have thought of organizing pouch friends meet up....wish I would have thought of this when I was younger/healthier....but never say never.  Hope you are hanging in there, Sharon.

I had one of those calamari explosions with in a few weeks after the disconnection of my j-pouch too......so must be normal.  I checked and it was normal per my surgeon's team.

Now not to gross you out but I am having my j-pouch removed.  The normal mucus discharge has turned to almost chocolate milk looking stuff and....it stinks.  My j-pouch is coming out in a month.  Along with the stinky stuff I am having the same abdominal pain as I was before the diversion.  

I was on antibiotics 5 or so times for an UTI after the diversion. I think they were helping with my disconnected j-pouch.  Now that the UTI was finally stopped all the nasty prior j-pouch pain is back.  I can't even blame my adhesions anymore as she took a long time lysing them during the diversion 6 months ago.

Please pay attention to your discharge. If it starts to stink and it is not an output, regular crap smell or stink related to the food you've eaten then you might have a problem...