Surgeries and sleepy bowels

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J.D.

Recently had hernia surgery(2-26-07) on the adominal region where his ostoemy was after take down in 2000. In 2004 he was diagnosied with PSC. He is now remaining in the hospital with slow bowel. It this something common with J-pouch as he had this with the colon removal and the ostomy take down in 2000. Could it be related to general anesthia. Any one with history of this.

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Anesthesia REALLY slows you down. In my experience, it may take several days to

get back to " normal " .

For at least one of my surgeries (laminectomy, I think), I got milk of magnesia

to " hurry things along " .

Arne

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J.D.

Recently had hernia surgery(2-26-07) on the adominal region where his ostoemy

was after take down in 2000... Could it be related to general anesthia. Any one

with history of this.

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Any surgery affecting the bowel slows things down for a few days. That

is why we generally put in a naso-gastric tube to prevent backup and

vomiting because extreme vomiting can result in the surgical site can

open up due to the stress on the sutures.

Aubrey, MD

PSC '81, UC '90, LTX '98, Recurrence '05