--- In peopleswithostomy2@yahoogroups.com, "joakabridgefreak"
<joakabridgefreak@...> wrote:
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Perhaps wha you are eating is adding to the problem. I've personally
have not experienced what you are. But we had a doberman that got
bleeding colitis frequently. The vet put him on cooked ground beef
and rice. It worked for her, without going the route of surgery. I
often wonder if it would not help the human population that suffers
from colitis.
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> I was recently diagnosed with diversion colitis
> and put on short chain fatty acid enemas.The problem(besides being
> expensive)Is that they cause painful CRAMPING!! I am due to have a
> take-down jan 10th,but am trying to at least be here for xmas for
my
> niece and nephew. The surgeon told me if the bleeding and pain do
> not stop to get to him right away and have emergency surgery.He
said
> a reversal is the only way this will go away for good.I just want
to
> wait it out till jan 10th is all.The enemas take weeks to help and
I
> don't know what I can do to alliveate the severe pain as I am
eating
> ultram like m&ms!! The enemas are so painful that the DR gave me
> some lidocaine to put in them!! And I have to use that awful
> inflatable nozzle which also hurts like a son of a gun!! MAN WILL I
> BE GLAD TO GET THIS SURGERY OVER WITH!!!!! I hate hospital stays!!
> from 2-4 weeks they say to recover and be in the hospital!!My colon
> has been bypassed for 2 years now but,according to a barium test i
> just had(and screamed my way through!)My colon DOES have good tone
> to it!! Also this stent that was put in my lower colon is NOT
> helping the pain!!It is making me want to yank it out,because it
> drives me nuts!! Any ideas anyone????? THANX JO
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