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Colon Cancer: Fecal Incontinence and Reversal Surgery
Colorectal Cancer | Last Active: Apr 19, 2023 | Replies (21)Comment receiving replies
Dear Colleen, Very many thanks. Today my pelvic floor physiotherapist here in Vancouver applied eight needles to my lower spine and buttocks for the fourth time to jump-start the sacral nerves via electrical impulses in order to enhance bowel functionality and also today tested the strength of my voluntary anal sphincter by my squeezing on her finger and then doing exercises of anal squeezing to jump-start the strengthening of my anus to enhance bowel control/functionality. Regards David
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Dear Colleen, A fine Irish name. For a decade I was very happily a research professor at Trinity College, Dublin in Ireland. It was indicated by my LAR/Reversal Surgeon here in Vancouver, Canada that the process of accomplishing reasonable bowel functionality might take six months and I am thus at about the half-way point but worried that although there has been progress this is less than hoped-for and so I am researching routes forward. I'm ready to travel to the Mayo Clinic for an assessment perhaps in two months. Meanwhile your though on the PF treatment by SNES needles here in Vancouver would be much appreciated. Best Regards David
Dear Colleen, A fine Irish name. For a decade I was very happily a research professor at Trinity College, Dublin in Ireland. It was indicated by my LAR/Reversal Surgeon here in Vancouver, Canada that the process of accomplishing reasonable bowel functionality
might take six months and I am thus at about the half-way point but worried that although there has been progress this is less than hoped-for and so I am researching routes forward. I'm ready to travel to the Mayo Clinic for an assessment perhaps in two months.
Meanwhile your thoughts on the PF treatment by SNES needles here in Vancouver would be much appreciated. Is this SNES treatment done in the USA? Best Regards David
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David, I'm so grateful that you are willing to talk about this on Connect. In the grand scheme of things July 5 is not that long ago. Have you been told that the incontinence is an expected side effect of surgery and how long recovery usually is?