My Operation after Colitis

MY BLOG ON COLLITIS

My names Dave, I am 40 yrs of age, happily married with two wonderful girls.

How I got into advertising on the internet was either by mis-fortune or if you look at it another way, it could be fortunate?

I had the Colon Disease called Ulcerative colitis for about 5 years which i would call mild, has with taken tablets every day it kept everything under control to an acceptable level??

My permanent job is as a plumber, so you can see I’m not a natural on the Internet.

Any way i was building a Loft extension on my house when I fell of the roof holding on to a sheet of ply wood ,and landed luckily enough on to my neighbours roof , which was about 4 foot lower , so not to high but enough  to do damage.

On landing I managed to crush my shoulder, which on swelling started to pinch the nerves in my neck and shoulder.

So of I went to the Emergency A.E Hospital to get treatment.

They run x-rays and could find not breaks or fractures, so asked me my medical history, and then sent me off to pick up my prescribed drugs from the pharmacy.

This consisted of a Anti-inflammatory and obviously some pain killers also told me if pain still persisted to take additional un prescribed medication, as well as my prescribed medication, OK they are the Doctors so off I went  to collect my medication as prescribed .

 I was in a lot of pain!!

After a week I noticed that my ULCERATIVE COLITIS was starting to change, I was going to the toilet more frequent and needed to get there quicker and quicker, until the point when I did not know if I could make it in time if I felt I needed to go?

Week two, now was here and steadily getting worse and worse.

I returned back to the doctors, who referred me to the Specialist Consultant

By the time I received an appointment with the specialist I was in trouble!!

I could not be too far away from a toilet at any time and when going to the toilet I was in so much pain , it must have been like given birth the wrong way accuse the description !

Any way on seeing the Consultant, he told me that the anti-inflammortory was probably the cause of the problem.

Which I had just stopped taken myself, feeling it could be something to do with the Anti-inflammatory ?

Any way to cut a long story short at the moment ,they prescribed me  Steroids to control my bowel movements in large dosage which slowed it slightly but could not control it ??

From here there was no way back I was trying all the latest medication with no affect, which if anyone else that is reading this has Colitis will know there is not that many out there, and they appear to work for some people but not others ?

Any way this developed into me having to have surgery to have a bypass and have a ileostamy bag fitted ,to try and relieve my Colon ,and to help relieve my symptoms to give me some quality of life back ?

This also did not work?

This managed to excelorate the disease, which on investigation had spread the complete length of my Colon, this developed in too continues bleeding from both ends!

This then led to have emergency surgery which was too have my whole Colon removed, and an ILEO ANAL POUCH put in its place!

This is basically when they take your upper intestine that is not infected and create a U Trap out of hundreds of stitches to form the shape, which then becomes the place that stores your stool.

 As I have no anus becuse it was all removed together with my diseased colon!

So as you can imagine this is quite some major surgey, which takes time to heal!

With the new U tap this then becomes your new muscle for going to the toilet, which i know sounds weird ,but you have to reprogram your body to use this new muscle which it never had???

To build this muscle up was the hardest thing as you had to try to hold yourself from going for as long as possible each time to allow the muscle to stretch, to enable you to hold it in between the times of needing to go, this process has taken about 2 years to get to an acceptable level!

At first I was needing to go every half hour to slowing it down to every 2 hours and gradually built up . 

Thanks for Reading more to follow soon

Dave P