I saw a colo-rectal surgeon on Friday. The surgeon I was scheduled to see on Dec 7, cancelled me for the third time and wanted to move me to Dec 28. Or I was given the option to see a colleague. It turned out to be a blessing in disguise. She had an opening two days later and I absolutely loved her!
The apt did not go at all as I
expected. She reviewed all my records, all my testing and asked a ton of questions. She also did an ahem, exam. She felt I had multiple things going on. My transit study showed slow motility from stomach through
Colon, with colon at 86 hours. Extremely slow. She feels bowel is big problem and stool is getting hung up in multiple locations. Nothing to do with tortuous colon. Everything to
do with motility. Second. Pelvic floor dysfunction. My brain is not communicating appropriate signals to PF to move stool out. Also, levator muscle pain also related to pelvic floor.
Options. Bowel Marker Test. 5 days of X-rays to determine where bowel isn’t functioning correctly. Problem. No drugs 7
days before and 5 days during me and I would be in misery. I pass. Defecating MRI would show exactly how my PF is working or not. Not too unpleasant. Pelvic Floor Therapy. Though I’ve done locally in past, not type she wants. Ileostomy. No removal of colon. Great candidate. I’m thin, no prior major abdominal surgeries, active. She could give me a great stoma in an unobtrusive location. But doesn’t think I’m to that point yet. Decide what I want to do.
I decide to have the MRI (😬), looking into having right PF therapy locally. And putting together all my questions for possible surgery at some point. It could always be reversed. She said the gi I’m seeing is the best so I’ll continue working with him on meds. Sorry so long but it was a lot of information. Hope maybe some could help some of you.