I am having severe "bathroom problems" after having colon surgery. Please help.

[Bonnie_needs_a_miracle]

It's been nice to read stories from a similar post back in 2007-2008 about bowel resections. I saw it had been years since there's been much said...so I hope we can reconnect and see how each other is doing...I decided to make this a new post so it would notify all that interested.

I had my last colon surgery September of 2011. When I went back to my doctor because of bathroom problems, he pretty much told me to deal with it.

A little of my history...In 2009, I was 27 and diagnosed with cervical cancer. Though I had went to my paps, it had gone undetected until my body began to breakdown and while the gynologist sought answers, she saw the tumor with her naked eye! (Yes, that was a weird experience.)

The oncologist at MD Anderson gave me one year to live without treatments and sent me back to Ochsner in New Orleans (where I was living). The prescribed treatment was chemo and radiation. I was devastated because radiation was going to send my 27 year old body through menopause which ment no more children (thankfully God had blessed me with one in 2002). After treatments, the tumor was still there so they prescribed internal radiation - (I think that's what really messed me up.) Then, I had a radical hysterectomy. Everyone was happy the cancer was gone and I was still grieved at the loss of my dreams of birthing more children. (God did end up speaking to me about that and has used that loss and turned it into love for all children).

Free of cancer...yet I had a couple of bathroom accidents over the next couple of months. I whet back to the doctor and they ran all kinds of crazy tests. They found where my colon was restricted (I believe from the internal radiation). Oh, if I could do it over again.... I would never agreed to that first sigmoid resection....

I had a sigmoid resection...they said it once they got in their they saw my colon was VERY radiated which made it hard to work with... After going home, turns out I had a leak...I had an emergency surgery that landed me in the ICU - at that time I got my first ileostomy... After that, I had several more colon surgeries.

I got my first full time job in August 2011 right out of grad school (yes, two years of treatments and surgeries while I was in grad school - God carried me). My last surgery was September 2011. After thus last surgery....my bathroom problems were TERRIBLE!!! After reading many of your testimonies, y'all know what I mean (so I won't go into all that).

After a fun giving with girlfriends at a Mexican restaurant OUT OF TOWN, I had a terrible night with my stomach...absolutely terrible. I couldn't imagine living like these...especially 10, 20 years from now... I began to pray for healing and search for natural alternatives (Remember, my doctor pretty much just told me to deal with it and I recently went back to a GI specialists and they pretty much told me the only alternative would be a permanent ostomy...which is not an option right now.)

I think my life has improved some...I take a natural supplement that I get from a natural path, I take lots of Young Living Essential Oils..., yet I still have a ways to go.

My current symptoms are chronic diarrhea, gas, and a couple of days out of the month constipation. The diarrhea is terrible. The main pain I feel is my skin getting raw, at times very sharp pain in my rectum, and hemorrhoids.

I'm going to try to add some enzymes, and probiotics, and Ningxia Red. I may try to eliminate complex carbohydrates...I read that on here...I'm not sure about that. I really don't know anything that I can eat that won't give me problems.

I praying for wisdom, healing, and solutions. It's been over five years...and I still suffering... If you have ANYTHING that has worked for you, PLEASE SHARE. Thank you!

[purple1234567]

I don't have any advice to share, but just thought I'd say thanks for sharing your story and I hope you are able to find some solutions soon!  Keep us updated on how you are!