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Sigmoid colon resection: What to expect for recovery?

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Glad for your success. Your last line says it very well…it requires patience !! I had similar surgery and took it very gently with diet, sometimes used colace for gentle help….introduced new foods very carefully….eventually am eating most healthy, fresh, unprocessed foods…eat 1 dried apricot every afternoon and go normally the next morning, no need for laxatives…we learn to listen to our own bodies ever better to survive as well as possible.best of health to all !

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Hello @mycmusic and welcome to Mayo Connect. Your comments about taking it very gently with diet was important. Perhaps you could post about this in a new discussion group about eating after digestive tract surgery. Here is the link to that discussion. https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/how-do-i-eat-after-digestive-tract-surgery/

I noticed that you said that you introduced new foods "carefully." Was your surgery recent? Are you able to eat more foods as time goes on or are you still limited?