Soo..you are a woman after all...intredasting

My colon ruptured on December 27, 2013.  Unfortunately, I thought I had  a kidney stone and blew it off.  On Monday it dropped me to the floor.  

I had a great surgeon.  He took out 15" and put me back together in one trip; no bag.  He told my wife if I had ignored it another day, or two, it probably would have killed me.

Sepsis is a bad bad thing.  Glad you are doing well!!!

I like to learn from others experiences.
It's better if I don't have to go through it on my own.

My dad was born with his intestines in a tangled mess, causing all sorts of problems. He was one of the first to go under experimental surgery to take his intestines out and put them back in correctly and a few other things. Doc said his survive rate was about 1-5%.
if his intestines stayed tangled up, he'd have about less than a week to live.


 

If I ate an Indian diet, I would shit constantly.

Dammit I did not want to see this thread. I just had my third flare up of diverticulitis about 50 days ago. This one was pretty severe but my GI docs so far says surgery may not be necessary but I am getting a colonoscopy in late June.

I am considering doing the elective surgery to remove the sigmoid colon to try to avoid having to have surgery in an emergency situation due to a flare up. I believe this will increase my chances of it being done laparoscopically and without having a bag.

The problem with diverticulosis is there are no textbook cases of this disease. It is like living with a time bomb in your stomach that may or may not go off. When it does go off will it be a small explosion that antibiotics can fix or will it be life threatening.

Fortunately, they did a great job of cleaning me out.  It took eight hours, but I didn't have any complications.  Plus with all the high speed antibiotics I'll never get the sniffles again.

I bet your farts were epic!

Well since I wasn't eating much then, there really wasn't much going on.  The stuff going through though hurt like a son-of-a-bitch.

And after surgery, they wouldn't let me eat until I had a BM.  The 8 hours leading up to this nightmare BM (nicknamed Bloody Demon Choad) was some of the worst pain I have ever been in.  When it did assplode, it was a tremendous relief.  And smelled like antibiotics and antiseptic.  But was mostly digested blood.  See nickname above.  In a choad configuration.  See above.

8 hours of mega pain, then BLAM!  Instant relief.  I did make it to my bathroom though,,,  and the very hot nurse had to clean me up afterwords.  She was hot.  I was not embarrassed at all.  Shit happens.

Looks like you got off easy, When I had 16 inches of my descending colon removed they left me with a big scar 2 drains and a catheter for 10 days after I left the hospital. those drains sucked ass to clean out every day and were just gross in general.

This thread needs more pictures....







 

They cleaned up very well afterwords.  I was home in 6 days.  I did get constipated 2 times in the next week and a half though.  Damn, that sucked... bad.

I have had crohns for the last 20 years I know of and hope to never have to go through any of that!

Haven't had a bad flare up in years. I take no meds for it and eat the crap out of hot stuff like jalapenos.

Look up capsicum. I am a believer.

Christ, that is really horrible. My dad had a large knee surgery in his 30's and of course they made him do physical therapy afterward. He couldn't ever bend it but that didn't stop "nurses" from torturing him 3 days a week for 3 months. Finally he went on for a check up and explained to the doc what was happening. Apparently no one ever drained the fluid from his knee which caused it to hydrolock. The way doc explained it it's like hydro locking and engine.

I also had a knee surgery awhile back and was awoken by the fucking "nurse" DROPPING MY FRESHLY BROKEN AND SCREWED BACK TOGETHER KNEE OFF THE TABLE! Apparently she thought I needed to be farther over to prevent me falling off the table so she decided to move me herself. Also had a dentist slip while pulling a tooth and cut the side of my gum so severely it took thirty minutes to stop the bleeding and I passed out. I don't have a lot of faith in medical practitioners anymore.

What is really funny is my favorite food is chinese.  I never had problems when I ate it and it is my comfort food now.

I had hemorrhoid surgery about ten years ago you don't know the pain of taking a dump until you go
Through that, imagine shitting a baseball rapped in barb wire that lasted nearly two weeks post op.

It's ok, Snow. I want to see my insides during this final c-section and my dr has reluctantly agreed to let the sheet be lower so I can see what is going on. Michael is SO creeped out about it. Hell, it's the same doc from the previous c-section and I made him show me my placenta. It's mine, why not?

That's arousing, show me more.

Now image that the exit has a sutured  connection in it about 6 inches inside that is constricted quit severely. And then you get constipated...  

Some people fry it up and eat it...  

And since we're talking about nurse screw ups when I came out of surgery and was in my room they had me hooked up
To a morphine pump I kept hitting the button thinking this shit sucks and was doing nothing for my pain. Finally called the

Nurse after a few hours and told her I needed something else for the pain,so she says the morphine should be good enough

I was like fuck that so she fiddles around with the pump and finds out that the tube was disconnected,there was a puddle

Of morphine on the floor so I lay in my bed post op with zero pain meds.

Yep definitely sounds like a pain in the ass,haha, I had sutures all inside also just thinking about it gives me the willies.

 

I had my guts pulled out about 4 years ago for a back surgery. I woke up feeling like...well like someone had just yanked my guts out. Soo painful. Then a few days later from my incision to about halfway down my thighs turned BLACK....not like a normal bruise, dark dark black. My nuts swelled up to tennis balls and my schlong was 3X it's normal size. Kinda strange to look down and see a big fat black ^+#% hanging there

I have heard of crones but what is c-diff?

Well yeah, isn't that how it's supposed to work?

Oh crap, wait......





































I BBQ'd mine (hers/ours)

My appendix ruptured also.  Hospital for 30 days.  Two surgeries.  I still have intestinal problems.   It was hell on earth.

The good thing is they got the ass connected back up again.

A highly contagious bacteria, typically picked up at hospitals by people who have been on high dose, broad spectrum antibiotics. Basically, the antibiotics prevent your body's own antibodies from killing/expelling C. diff.

 


The C. difficle spores can live eight months or more outside of the body (on bathroom surfaces, toilets, etc...)




Once someone becomes infected with C. diff, they are treated with a narrow spectrum antibiotic, which usually kills the active bacteria. However, the spores can remain in the GI tract and have something like a 40% reinfection rate. After several reoccurances, the narrow spectrum antibiotics can stop being effective. Secondary treatment includes bowel removal/cleaning and now fecal transplants.




The C. diff infection can coat your large and small intestines, preventing nutrient and water absorption. It can result in bowel and intestinal swelling causing vomitting. Also, because of the bacterial imbalance in your gut flora, your stool is very watery.




It's a very nasty bug and C.diff patients have to be isolated to prevent the spread. People with compromised immune systems and the elderly are at a particularly high risk and C.diff can be deadly.


 

Oh yea and the funny part about how I got the C Diff. Before my appendix burst I think it was inflamed and irritated and was causing me to throw up a lot and give me stomach pain.

 

Went to a local clinic instead of the hospital and the doc just gave me strong as antibiotics which killed my immune system and let the C Diff take over. It sucks, dude didn't give a shit.


When I went to the hospital a fucking nurse just pushed a little on a spot in my stomach and there was pain. He just goes "your appendix is there lets get a mri". That quick. That's all the dude had to do to know it was my appendix. Nope clinic doctor said "just food poisoning. Nothing else, I am doctor".

I have crohns and two weeks ago during my yearly colonoscopy they discovered I have cdiff. On a three week dose of antibiotics and we'll see how it goes. The drugs I have to be on for my crohns makes it really hard to fight infections. My doctor didn't act like cdiff was a big deal,  he just had his nurse call and tell me he was putting me on antibiotics.

I have a scar from one of those. Ruptured intestines and spleen from being hit by a car in 2001.

Since we're sharing....Been there, done that.  My first and only bout of diverticulitis had me vomiting from my intestines at 3am.  It tastes like stale cereal at that point, but the ER nurses know the smell.  It's great, you go to the front of the line and they even fill out your paperwork for you!  Spent a couple weeks with a tube in my nose, being "fed" through a port in my neck and lots of antibiotics, but eventually wound up with a foot of my sigmoid out and a bag on my belly and 37 staples holding me closed.  No laprascopic for me, I had "dirty surgery".  I lost about 40 pounds through this whole thing, but I don't recommend it as a weight-loss procedure.  I looked like Matthew McConaughey in "Dallas Buyers Club".  

A couple months popping Vicodin like candy for the pain, another turn on the table, 39 staples holding me closed and a "wet dressing" where the bag used to be.  They just stitch up the muscle and let the fat and skin close over on their own so you wake up with a hole in your belly.  It helps control infections, or so both my doctors told me, but it leaves a hell of a scar.

Eight months after that I felt well enough to get back into the gym and work out.  Just going through the range-of-motion to feel things out -- I'm talking no weight on the machines -- and that gave me a bunch of hernias along my incisions.  A bunch of surgical mesh holds my belly closed now.  As a bonus, my surgeon cleaned up my colostomy scar since he had to go in there as well.

This was perfectly timed to coincide with Vicodin, etc. becoming Schedule II drugs and harder to get.  That was the perfect drug for me after my surgeries.  It made the pain go mind its own business for a little while so I could do Herculean things like get out of bed.

It's been about nine months since that and I can finally do just about anything without pain anymore.  No drugs, normal if slightly different bathroom habits, and I get to tell stories about getting bills from the hospital with one of many line items like "drugs......$40,000".  I skip the part about a nurse trying to kill me or one nurse holding me up naked since I couldn't stand on my own and another nurse bathing me.  It ain't sexy like the movies.

On the nurses trying to kill you vein...

My Dad had a knee replacement done.  Hadn't had full range of motion in his leg for years.  After surgery, they hooked him up to the machine that cycles your leg to keep it all moving and restore range of motion.  Unknown to him, it was set for max range, and his leg moved 75% more then it had in many years the moment it was turned on. Went full stroke.  When he could breathe again, he was about to kill someone. And then in an effort to make him comfortable, they knocked his leg off the rest it was on while he was sitting up in a chair, and it hit the floor. he cried.  I have seen that man cry twice in my life, and that was one of them.

I consider some of you guys lucky. I got hit with aggressive steroid resistant Fulmative Ulcerative Colitis when I was in 6th grade. Nearly bled out internally. Blacked out walking from the bathroom to class. Was sent to the ER with a hemoglobin so low my organs were already shutting down. After 3 years in the hospital, two botched surgeries, two lung clots, a million misdiagnosis, and one successful surgery. I am now large intestine free. I do not have a colostomy bag, but rather an ileo-anal or internal pouch. It is essentially a fake colon made of strips of small intestine sown together into a bag. I have an S-pouch (botched surgery 1) I should have had a J-pouch as the S-pouch had been removed from acceptable practice 10yrs before my surgery. Reason why is that the S-pouch causes complications, namely an infection called pouchitis that is incurable due to the shape of the pouch. Also since all I have left is small intestine, and large is what absorbs water, everything is diarrhea. There exists something worse than diarrhea actually, I have coined the name super diarrehea (believe me you don't want to know). I also have no control over my bowels so I have to wear adult diapers all day every day. During my time in the hospital they killed my immune system so I get sick often and stay sick for twice as long as a normal person with the same thing. I go to the mayo clinic twice a year. Such a bad ass place. They have to open scar tissue strictures that were created in botched surgery 2 otherwise they would close completely forming a blockage. The only reason the last surgery went well was because the surgeon who botched the first two showed up drunk to the third and the hospital went out of pocket for an out of insurance network doctor to do it as a "we are sorry".

My dad went in for a hip replacement a couple years back and contracted C Diff. A 3 day stay turned into a month stay in the ICU.

My brother was hospitalized with liver failure and also got C Diff. He didn't pull through .

This is the scariest thread I've ever read.

Yeah. Diverticulosis is a bitch. Many people have it but wilo not know it until they have a colonoscopy or the pouches get infected. Some people Never have a problem.

       
Holy fuck man. You're a trooper. Mad props.