Update

Hi All, I hope everyone is doing well. I have not posted in a long time but I still check the boards often to keep up with that is going on.

It has now been about 5 months since I had my total colectomy. I still get bloated after eating but it isn't as bad as before, and it lessens over the period of a few hours after eating, which never happened before. I take milk of magnesia every night and it works. I feel GREAT during the day.

I am wearing clothes I love, I have a job interview next week (wish me luck!) and I am going to my best friend's wedding this month...and I am bringing a date!!

I feel so lucky to have had this surgery, I would never have been able to do any of these things before. Although I still have to plan a little bit and make sure I eat very small amounts, life is MUCH easier.

I want to thank everyone on here for their help so far, I could not have made it through all of this without ALL of you.

love and hugs to all of you,

Ali

Alibee, I joined this forum today as I was reading back through all the posts between you and Tom about your disease.

I am beyond happy that everything worked out for you. I was last reading that you were having such problems and than I found this thread and you have had the OP and recovered successfully.

I like you had have suffered from long term constipation which seems to be progressing as I get older (I am 24 too.) It is no were near the extent of what you went through as I can still achieve bowel motions on just osmotic laxatives, however a large portion of my life is spent managing it and I just feel like I don't really have a life because of it.

Stories like yours are inspirational from someone who has considered giving up on life (not seriously, I love life, but its nice to know there are options to allow me to live it). I wish you all the best in your new life!

Ali, send me an email at (its just a fake account so people cant spam me)

estranger2@mail.com

There is no option to PM people on these forums. Id love to hear more about your story if you wanted to share it with me (I understand its a bit of a weird thing to ask on a forum for someone you barely know, but its just great to hear from someone who has come out the other end of the tunnel, so to speak)