#colon surgery

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Confession #5,436

I’ve been wondering for a while, if I count as being disabled. Like what started making me question if I was is I’ve had a high up school staff refer to me as a “non-able body” during the revision of my 504 plan and say if I’m discriminated against n not listened to I can go to the Civil Rights Office.

I also have noticed as time goes on my chronic back I acquired half a year ago is starting to worsen to where I’m genuinely struggling to make it half way through fourth period and I just can’t really stand to move around often especially if I’m carrying stuff because then my lower area and back hurt and I’ve been in pain so often and long my tolerance is just going to shit even tho I’m now on some meds to so it’s not as bad now. During Halloween it caused me to have to use a wheelcheer due the sheer pain as well and it’s not really even my primary condition.

My primary condition has caused me to have to get my colon removed back in sophomore year so now I have a hard time with not shitting every ten minutes after eating or feeling hungry even with my small stomach Bc I don’t wanna feel the latter Bc even when I take anti-diarrhea meds it only makes it go from a hour n under to 1 or 3 hours.

But I’m getting a MRI scan luckily, right after Christmas to see what’s wrong and hopefully fix the chronic back pain so I miss less school then usual and my mom is naturally kinda anti labels n thinks I just wanna label myself stuff so I don’t know if I really do qualify to say I am n I don’t trust myself Bc I always worry I’m doing stuff for attention or what my mom thinks so it’s just endless confusion due to the school staff making me go ‘wait I’m not a able bodied person?????’

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Colon procedure/surgery preparation learnings behind cut

Learn from me, those who come after.

-They will offer a flavor packet with the prep liquid. Do not use it. DO NOT USE IT. I got the "best" flavor, lemon, and the aftertaste is so horrific that all on its own it is making me nauseous and sick. The liquid is like thickened water so there's also a textural element of ewww. Practice chugging water ahead of time and learn how much you can do in one glass, then use that size to determine how much to drink how fast to meet the instructions.

-Drinking that much refrigerated or even room temp liquid that fast means your core body temp will drop. If you already run low this could put you in a really bad place. Have a neck heat pack ready, use a towel for a lap blanket, put on a hat and socks, keep your feet in a tub of warm water, do whatever you can to keep your body temp up both while drinking and after. The warmer you are the easier it will be to handle what is happening.

-You will have a few minutes of respite between bouts. This can be used to go for more prep liquid, to microwave a heat pack, grab another book, and so on. I recommend taking one of those moments, spreading a towel or puppy pad, and laying horizontal for 2-3 minutes. Especially if you're starting to feel wrung out this can help your system relax.

-Get whoever is your medical team to give you a reason why for the "clear liquid" restrictions. They may say "broth" is a clear liquid, get them to define it. Some procedures are okay with ready-made broth or homemade, others are assuming that broth means there's no fat in it. This can be very important based on which procedure you're having. For my surgery I'm allowed to have cranberry juice and that wasn't allowed during my colonoscopy since they were looking for red to indicate blood. The restrictions need to be clearer and sadly it will be up to you to ask for that clarification.

-Can you make a hot drink with honey, lemon, and sugar? That will be your friend. Warm for the body temp, lemon and honey for taste, sugar because that's what will fuel your body until you can have solid food again. Sugar will be your friend in the coming hours, it is the only fuel you can have until after the procedure. Find a real sugar soda pop, it will help clear the taste/texture of the prep liquid out of your mouth if you have a swig after each glass. Ginger ale is good, ginger beer has sediment in it so it is not technically clear.

-If you have access to or can make a bidet with your shower setup you will save yourself so much pain. Constant rubbing to clean leads to irritation and itching. Gentle warm water is pleasant and soothing to abused orifices.

-Have a supply of towels ready and on hand. If you have to get up and move because there's someone at the door, the dog needs out, the phone is ringing in the other room, whatever it is, slap a towel on like it's ancient wrapped underwear. If you're going to sit on a couch or chair put a folded towel down first to sit on. Towels can be sanitized if something happens and are absorbent by design.

-It does not matter if you have the pelvic muscles of a demigod, there will be a moment when you think "I've got this, I can wait another minute before heading for the bathroom" and you will be wrong. Try to have that moment either already wrapped in a towel or over an easy to sanitize surface. This moment is inevitable, don't stress about it, accept it, and have cleaner on hand for when things have passed.

-Ask the medical team if there is an indicator of when you can stop with the prep liquid before it is completely drunk. For some procedures there is a specific transparency, usually urine-level, which is the desired level to get to. "Can you easily see the bottom of the toilet bowl" is what the nurse told me to shoot for. This can save a lot of time and effort if you know there's an earlier stopping point than the full 4 liters of prep liquid.

These are the learnings I have learned and I pass this knowledge on in hopes it will make things easier on someone else.

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What Procedures Are Performed by a Surgical Gastroenterologist

The field of surgical gastroenterology treatments plays a crucial role in diagnosing and managing complex digestive system disorders. From minimally invasive techniques to advanced cancer treatments, surgical gastroenterologist procedures are essential for improving patients' quality of life.

At Healix Hospitals, our expert team of surgical gastroenterologists is dedicated to providing cutting-edge treatments for a range of gastrointestinal conditions. Whether it’s colon surgery, liver resection, or endoscopic procedures, our specialists ensure safe and effective patient care.

In this detailed guide, we will explore the various surgical gastroenterologist procedures, their importance, and how they help patients regain their health.

Understanding Surgical Gastroenterology

Surgical gastroenterology is a specialized branch of medicine that focuses on diagnosing and treating diseases of the digestive tract through surgery. This includes conditions affecting the esophagus, stomach, intestines, liver, pancreas, gallbladder, and rectum.

A surgical gastroenterologist is a highly trained professional skilled in performing both minimally invasive surgery and traditional open procedures, ensuring the best possible outcomes for patients.

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I Am An Ostomate...

For those of you that aren't familiar with this term, you might recognize it if you know what a colostomy bag is which is similar to what I have which is an illeostomy.

Early last year I had rushed colon surgery which left me with an ileostomy. A colostomy is for the large intestine and an ileostomy is for the small intestine. I have an ileostomy because they removed most of my large intestine.

I was told that the ostomy (general term ileostomy, colostomy etc.) was temporary, but due to complications I am going into a year of having it. The complications of having an ostomy can be rather stressful at times not to mention expensive!

I have a great wound care nurse that actually fought to get me the supplies I needed. Now, to understand this, my insurance does cover what I need, but only so much per month. When leaking issues are rampant and your quickly exhaust what supplies you have long before your next shipment... things can get expensive. Thankfully I had tax money to help then I was able to go back to work which also helped.

I was given a basic overview of ostomies while in the husband, but as time went on I realized, too late, that there was a lot more to know. I won't go into detail, but I feel like a person that has an ostomy for the first time needs to be given much more an education! Almost a year in and I realized that what I thought was a weird should strap for a travel kit was in fact an ostomy belt. I knew about ostomy belts from early on, but when looking them up they looked completely different.

Growing up my grandmother had a colostomy bag which minorly prepared me for having an ileostomy which I don't think is much different from having a colostomy. I knew about burping your bag which is a lot more convenient with the Hollister snap on kind. Originally I would hold the bottom of the bag upwards to then open it and press the gas out of the bag or if I have to I will open the bottom over a toilet and press the gas out that way. With the Hollister strapon kind all I have to do is unsnap a small portion of it and if need be press the gas out, but it usually comes out pretty well.

Not until here in the last few months have I really had an issue with skin irritation or rather erosion as what I assumed was stomach acid present in the stool would eat away at the skin around the stoma (I feel like I'll have to do another post specifically about these terms etc, but the stoma is the part of the intestine thats exposed... basically it refers to your new butthole). This can be very unpleasant, but I was given some miconazole powder (antifungal) to use any redness. In other words, use it before it gets bad. It does work.

Shortly before Thanksgiving I was admitted into the hospital due to a severe case of skin irritation possibly an infection. The doctor and nurse both said they don't if it was due to an infection or just irritation, but they put me on antibiotics anyways and it did eventually heal up. I was having issues with the wafer sticking and I was going through supplies like crazy. It was like it was right after my second surgery when I was having to change my otomy up to five times a day! Needless to say that is not supposed to be the case! I didn't want to waste anymore supplies and it was over the weekend so wound care wasn't open and my surgeon's office wasn't available. I did what I thought was the best possible thing to do with what I had on hand... tape a grocery bag to my stomach. I am a bigger person so I could tuck half of the bag under my stomach and tape the upper half to me. Just over the course of three days, most of my stomach on that side become red and weepy. The weepiness is what was causing the wafer from sticking and it just got worse... I was finally able to get to the wound care on tuesday which she urged me to go the hospital that same day which I did. They kept me over night and released me the day before thanksgiving.

There were only two things that seemed to help with the weeping issue. The wound care nurse either used a skin protective barrier which kind of reminds me duoderm or this purple stuff (Marathon brand, its cyanoacrylate, a medical adhesive) which worked wonders, but is super expensive! Later on, I learned about crusting. Technically I learned it from the wound care nurse, but I thought crusting was dependent on the purple stuff. Crusting is where we take Brava powder and sprinkle it on to the affected area. Then we take protective barrier wipes and dab the area after brushing the excess powder off. Do this two to three times and a crust will begin to form. The powder will only stick to the areas it needs to stick to and dabbing rather than wiping ensures that the powder doesn't get wiped off but coated with the barrier liquid.

Having an ostomy is no fun, but it is manageable and even more so if you actually pay attention to what should be avoided. Early on I was told to avoid certain foods such as fruits with the peel on, mushrooms, seeds etc. That these things could cause a blockage which I assumed was in reference to intestinal blockages, but after learning about pancaking, I believe that might be the reason for it. You will notice that certain foods don't get fully digested and might seem to move right through you like it wasn't even touched! Chew all you want, but sometimes food slips by. The thicker the stool, the more it might build up at the stoma site causing it to eventually push through the barrier and come out from underneath the wafer... yeah, always a pleasant experience! The problem was that this would happen with liquids too. I've learned alot since getting my ostomy back in February of last year, but I feel like there is still things to learn and improvements to be made. For example, they really need to explain pancaking and why avoiding certain foods is necessary! For the longest time I didn't know that this little pack of deodorant they gave me was actually a lubricant to help things move down into the pouch. Early on I knew that there was deodorant items I could use if need be, but nothing about it being lubricant. I can't get this through my insurance while getting other things, but using a small amount of olive oil seems to help when leaking doesn't occur. I had so much leaking issues that I would leave an ostomy on for as long as possible reaching into a two week period! I, personally, don't think I have ever had to change an ostomy because it had been 3-7 days. Its always been because I had to change it due to leakage. I would even put large sheets of tape that I had leftover from wound care (the surgery incision) on to the areas surrounding the wafer to help contain any leaks and it helped! I ran out of the tape though and started using other medical tapes. I even thought about getting some adhesive like skin-tac or mastisol to try and re-seal the areas of the wafer that came lose either on their own or due to leakage. I've had times where the wafer won't even stick!

Going back to the grocery bag incident, which I am now going through the same thing again, but this time it was due to constant leaking. Not just Hollister, but Coloplast as well. The thing is that the ileal fluid (basically intestinal juices from the small intestine) cause skin irritation, because there was nothing there preventing it from getting on my skin, I tried several different things. I didn't think to tape it up, but first off I tried applying hand lotion. Why? It has oil in it and oil and water don't mix so I figured it would create an oil slick... I don't think it worked in the long run. To help dry up the area, I tried crusting, but it wouldn't dry for some reason and the liquid would just wash the powder away anyways. I'm trying to add miconazole powder this time to help kick any fungal infection in its butt. I read on a forum that some liquid antacid that is no longer being made could be used... I don't remember the name now, but it was like mylanta. I didn't some research and saw that this particular type had two ingredients that the others didn't have both of. There was also an inactive ingredient that the other didn't have. This form made it sound like it would dry up on the skin and the generic stuff I got did, but not on the weeping skin. I was looking for something to create a barrier, to dry the area up, but what went over my head was that it was an antacid and was primarily used to soothe the pain due to ileal fluid being acidic. Mylanta etc. neutralizes acids. Another source said to use hydrocortisone cream (ointments are more oily) and let it sit there undisturbed for about ten minutes. In that time it would dry up, but like the mylanta stuff would. Didn't work. There was also hydroclloidal sheets that I didn't try. No reason other than money.

Before wrapping this all up I want to state that I got a lot of help including many supplies from my wound care nurse (all of them were great at the clinic!) and multiple free samples and help from an individual at a local pharmacy. Yes, free samples! Now, I can't promise and will not promise that your pharmacy would do the same, but I think they just took an understanding to me. Given I've been through a lot and my age might have had a role to play. People usually notice the seemingly shocking fact that someone so young had colon surgery and has an ostomy. My next post op appointment is next month, but I'm going to see if my surgeon will do the surgery sooner than later despite the risks...

Have a good day and a blessed New Year!

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Colon Surgery by the Top Sigmoid Colectomy Surgeon.

Colectomy is a procedure used to remove the entire or a portion of your colon. The colon, which forms the enormous intestine of you, is a tube-like organ located at the bottom of the intestinal tract. Colectomy is a possibility to prevent or treat ailments and diseases that impact the colon.

So here in this article, you will learn about risk factors and the approach of a Sigmoid colectomy surgeon.

Different Kind of Colectomy Procedures

There are a variety of colectomy procedures:

Complete colectomy involves the removal of the colon ultimately.

A partial colectomy involves the removal of a portion of the colon. It could also be referred to as subtotal colectomy.

Hemicolectomy includes the removal of the left or right part of the colon.

Proctocolectomy involves the removal of both the colon as well as the rectum.

Other procedures usually follow colectomy surgery to reconnect the remaining parts of your digestive system to let waste out of your body.

Risks Factor Related to Sigmoid Colectomy

Colectomy can lead to severe complications. Your chance of suffering complications depends on your overall health, some risk factors are:

In general, the complications of colectomy may be:

Blood clots can form in the legs i.e., deep vein thrombosis, as well as in the lung i.e., pulmonary embolism.

Injuries to organs close to your colon, for instance, the small intestine and bladder.

Sutures are laced with tears that connect the other components of your digestive system.

You'll be in the hospital following the colectomy procedure to allow digestion to recover.

 How Does a Sigmoid Colectomy Surgeon Approach the Disease?

Your doctor will carry out the colectomy by using one of the following methods:

Minimal Invasion

Open Procedure

Minimally surgically invasive involves inserting devices and laparoscopes via tiny incisions inside the abdomen. A laparoscope is a small illuminated instrument with remote cameras that transmit your colon and abdomen images to a screen. 

Your surgeon will see an inside view of the abdomen on the screen when doing the procedure. Minimally invasive surgeries generally result in more rapid recovery and minor discomfort than open surgery. 

It is because it causes little damage to organs and tissues. The surgeon will create an incision that is small instead of the larger one used for open surgery. 

The instruments used in surgery are threaded around the structures like muscle or tissue rather than cutting into or displacing them like they would in open surgery.

The procedure of open surgery involves making an extensive cut in the abdomen. Open surgery allows your surgeon to observe and access the surgical site directly. 

It generally means more recovery time and discomfort than minimally invasive surgeries. Open surgery requires a more extensive incision and more cutting, displacement, and removal of the muscle or other organs than minimally insidious. However, it might be a better or more practical option for some patients.

Combining Both Minimal Invasion & Open Procedure….

Some surgeons combine an operation that is minimally invasive with an open procedure. Furthermore, your surgeon might decide after starting a function that you will require an available method to ensure your safety and efficiently complete your process.

Your surgeon will guide you on the kind of surgery that is most suitable for you and the length of time you will need to remain in the hospital based on your medical condition, age, general health, and personal preferences. 

Bottom Lines to Close Now…

The entire large intestine is removed during a total colectomy, and the surgeon removes the damaged portion of your colon. Following recovery, a procedure to reattach the colon and rectum is performed. The colon is tacked to the skin to form a colostomy in certain circumstances. 

Colectomy is a procedure that can prevent or treat conditions that affect the colon. Minimally invasive surgery entails putting devices and laparoscopes into the belly through small incisions. Some surgeons mix a minimally invasive surgery with an open procedure. 

Georgia Top Surgeons are the best Sigmoid colectomy surgeon. They precisely study about the past and present condition of the patient and then opt for surgery.