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I had my take down just over 3 weeks ago, since then I’ve been readmitted twice for an obstruction. They said the join of the ileostomy was swollen and not letting stuff through so was eating nothing for a week waiting for it to pass, then they tried me on pureed food which passed alright, then yesterday out of nowhere I went to the bathroom 30 times. It felt like it all cleared out

Then they started me on some soft food (soft mince with mash and gravy) and since then I’ve had barely any output and I’ve got bloated again with the clenching / tightness pain

I’m so fed up man, it’s like one extreme to the other. I don’t know what to trust in my body now and what’s to be expected. I was supposed to be discharged today until this happened, is this relatable?

I’m sorry for posting frequently here I’m just struggling at the moment and looking for advice

I’m almost two weeks post takedown and I only just started eating, I’m having real slow transit time though I mean I eat today and it comes tomorrow in little amounts. The opposite to what I hear other peoples experience is like here. Is this uncommon or is it something that will switch when the bowel starts working properly again?

Is there anything I can do to help this, I’m walking as much as I can and I’m eating small amounts frequently

Had my takedown a couple of weeks ago, still in hospital since I had a slow ileus and an obstruction of some kind with lots of distention

That has mostly passed now and I have started to eat yesterday, all night had cramps though. They are letting me home today, I’m wondering if this is just part of the process? Like intermittent cramps and pains during the night or following eating

The doctors think the join where they put together the ileostomy again is either swollen or tight, which has led to my bowel become distended and unable to eat. I’m in an enormous amount of discomfort and they aren’t sure what to do except wait and see, this sucks

Has anyone had this before?

I had my takedown 11 days ago and things were going well, aside from an ileus post op. I was discharged and started eating again, until nothing would pass and my abdomen started swelling out

I went to hospital and they did an x ray and a ct scan and found my bowel was distended and blocked around the area of where the stoma was rejoined together

Now I’m back on an ng tube, with a very swollen and painful stomach not knowing what’s going to happen next, to be honest I’m pretty scared. They haven’t told me much except that it could end up needing another operation, they say it’s either swelling from the join stopping things going through or a kink

I have now passed stuff from the pouch so it’s not completely blocked but it doesn’t seem to be helping

Has anyone had anything similar happen? If so what followed for you?

I had my takedown just over a week ago, I came out of hospital yesterday. I’m eating very small amounts at the moment but I’m not passing much anyway, I guess it makes sense because I’m not eating much but it feels strange since I’m so used to emptying the ileostomy frequently

In the first while after the op my bowels were super erratic and I was going to the bathroom every 20 minutes passing like bile, I wasn’t eating though. Since then things have slowed down a lot

Is this to be expected until I start eating a lot more? Cos I’ve read here a lot about how people are going 20+ after surgery and that being how things are for weeks

As I said I am passing stuff it’s just very little, I mean I’ve been once today in the morning and it’s over half way into the day

I had my takedown surgery on Thursday so 4 days ago, the first two days felt fine but had no output. Then I started feeling sick and was vomiting a lot for 2 days (ileus). They put an ng tube in and this helped

Then the output shifted from there to my back passage, now I’m going to pass green/brown bile from there maybe every 20-30 minutes, very frequent

My surgeon said this is to be expected, I have horrible stomach cramps too. Some very intense just before I need to pass

Still not eating or drinking except sips

How much of this sounds familiar and do you think this resolves soon? I’m just feeling a bit worried because this echoes how I was feeling right before I had my first surgery, many bathroom trips and feeling ill with stomach pain