Not sure this is directly related but after my 1st illeo op I had
difficulty with any exercise\activity that used adominal exercise after
2nd op I did a lot of core strength building exercises with a physio
who was primarily teaching pilaties and find it much easier to cope
with abdominal exercise.
Dont remember ever getting muscle spasams from exercising though so
unsure the above will work depending how bad they are.

--- In ileostomy@yahoogroups.com, "shahalaca" <shahalaca@...> wrote:
>
> --- In ileostomy@yahoogroups.com, "Mary" <aggiemama89@> wrote:
> >
> > I had J-pouch surgury 3 years ago. My temporary Illiostomy was on
> the
> > left side about 4 inches below and to the left of my navel (looking
> > down). Everything has been a booming success. My only complaint is
> > that anytime I try to do any ab work I get a terrible muscle spasm
> > around that area, and so I usually just don't do ab exercises. Has
> > anyone else had this experience, and is there anything you can do
> about
> > it?
> >
> hi there,
> i had the same problem, because of hernia.
>