4 years ago today was my take down surgery. I walked out of the hospital new year's day, 1/1/2011, thinking it was all behind me and I had to recover a little and would finally be rid of the pain I experienced all the years with UC. I was wrong but, I'm still alive. I would not want to do those years over again. I started back on antibiotics again for pouchitis and am still treating my chronic cuffitis.
Whenever I see a probability of any number I am always going to believe I'm going to get the worst outcome. My husband recently had a rapid increase in his PSA. His urologist said there was a 25% chance he had prostate cancer and he could wait longer to do a biopsy. I talked him into having the biopsy then. He did and he had prostate cancer. He's had his prostate removed and appears to be cured, only time will tell for sure.
These are reasons I don't care about what the percentages are. You will either have it or you won't. I read that only 4% of j-pouchers get cuffitis. I have it and it's chronic.
I'm still glad I had the surgeries but wonder how different things would be if I had just gone for an end ileo.
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