kc70 said...
I have a loop ileo and I also excrete a TON of mucous. In fact, when a geyser day coincided with a visit to my stoma nurse, she seemed surprised at the amount, said she hadn't encountered that before. I actually get it from both ends: the fistula and the rectum. Lately I've been wondering how "normal" that is, especially since I've been having extra rectal pressure and even some pink tinge to it. I called and made an appointment with my surgeon just in case... wouldn't want anything to jeopardize my takedown!
mine has gradually gotten worse since my surgery 7 weeks ago. I'm in and out of the bathroom multiple times a day passing a lot of cloudy mucus and blood. Just last night I was in the bathroom about
10 times if not more...some of those trips were only a few minutes apart and I was completely full again of mucus. Ask your surgeon about
Diversion Colitis. I just had a sigmoidoscopy on this past Monday and my surgeon suggested it's a possible cause of my inflammation, mucus, blood and that horrible pressure in the rectum when you're going to the bathroom. Diversion colitis happens because stool isn't passing through your colon and it doesn't receive normal nutrients. Doing the reversal should correct it if that's what it truly is. I'm expecting mine within a month and hoping all goes well.