Can you tell I like Star Wars from that title? I have a question for all you that, like myself, were lucky enough to have their rectums removed. It's been four months since my rectal removal and K pouch surgery. Previous to that, for years, I had j pouch pouchitis and butt burn that flared out of control, now, it's not a problem, it's all removed and I'm happily adapting to my new relatively pain free plumbing, but in the last few weeks I've been encountering a very weird sensation. In the same way amputees get phantom pains in limbs that are no longer there, I've been feeling phantom rectal pain, but it's been gone for months. It's a really weird sensation, but for a split second, it feels like it did before the surgery. My question is, has this ever happened to you? I know there's nothing I can do about it, and it's not really a big deal, I'm just curious if its just me (probably is, I'm pretty weird!), thanks,
Eric
Ps - also curious what other diseases have you obtained since your first GI treatments? For me, I'm confident the 85mg a day of prednisone I use to take caused the other issues, mine are arthritis (have had rotator cuff decompression surgeries on both shoulders because of it), osteoporosis, chronic anxiety and depression, hypertension, chronic migraines, kidney stones, had two unexplained grand mal seizures a year after my j pouch final take down (thankfully, none since), and joint pain so bad it hurts to walk some days (associated with the osteoporosis and arthritis, need right knee surgery, but I'm putting it off, I'm sick of surgery!).
