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From: cease on 1 Dec 2007 03:26
Hi to all: I have a perforated bowel back in Sept. and the surgeon
performed a Colostomy on me. He informed me that it is temporairy in nature
and will probably be back in surgery to reverse some time in mid January. I
was wondering if the surgery will be as bad as the initial surgery when the
colostomy was performed ( I had peritonitis so I realise that I wont be as
sick). Are there any draw backs to the surgery?
How about recoureration time. I was out of work on sick leave for 6 wks
after the colostomy, how about after the reversal.

Any information will be appreciated.

Chris N. Puyallup, Wa.


From: Madison Pruet on 1 Dec 2007 11:13
cease wrote:
> Hi to all: I have a perforated bowel back in Sept. and the surgeon
> performed a Colostomy on me. He informed me that it is temporairy in nature
> and will probably be back in surgery to reverse some time in mid January. I
> was wondering if the surgery will be as bad as the initial surgery when the
> colostomy was performed ( I had peritonitis so I realise that I wont be as
> sick). Are there any draw backs to the surgery?
> How about recoureration time. I was out of work on sick leave for 6 wks
> after the colostomy, how about after the reversal.

I also had a lot of problems with my original surgery. I had a bad case
of diverticulitis and the surgery for the initial resectioning went
really bad and I ended up with having to have temporary colostomy (a
double barrel colostomy in first part of the transversal colon). I am
now recovering from the reversal surgery. My original two surgeries
required 6 weeks in the hospital and about 2 weeks in resting at home
before I was able to return to work. Since I work out of my home,
getting to back to work was not too bad.

I had my reversal surgery the first of November and spent 10 days in the
hospital recovering. My surgeon did not want to take any chances so was
really slow to allow me to return to normal food. However, I was able
to return back to full time work after 2 days of returning home.

The key things to remember are to

1) don't rush to get the reversal done. You had some nasty inflammation
of the bowel and don't want to do the reversal until that inflammation
is gone.

2) You should be much more healthy than you were for the first surgery.
Therefor you should be able to recovery quicker.

3) You need to try to get as much exercise (and weight control) as
possible prior to the surgery. In my case, I was walking about 5 miles
a day prior to the reversal. This is really important in minimizing the
risk factor.

4) You need to practice Kegals prior to the reversal. Normally after the
reversal, folks don't have too much control of their bowel movements and
will need to go a lot - in my case about twice an hour. Kegal exercises
will help. In my case, I had to wear adult pampers for three weeks
after the surgery. Normal control will return, but it's best to be
prepared for the 'yuck' factor.
>
> Any information will be appreciated.
>
> Chris N. Puyallup, Wa.
>
>
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