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Sigmoid colon resection: What to expect for recovery?
Colorectal Cancer | Last Active: Feb 8 9:17am | Replies (235)Comment receiving replies
Hello @patriotspride,
Your case is sounding hopeful to me. I am reading so many reports of lengthy recoveries, with uncontrollable diarrhea, and not being able to leave the house, etc... Did you have a sigmoid resection?
And, I know this is most likely a question for the surgeon--what happens to the nerves that surround the sigmoid colon? Are they sacrificed, and that why incontinence happens?
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@eyeart (and @patriotspride) ,
Did you have the surgery? My dr told me NOTHING about the side effects I am reading about here, and now I am terrified! I am scheduled to have about a foot of my sigmoid colon removed laparoscopically later this month. I have had four bouts of diverticulitis over the past five years or so. The most recent one put me in the hospital for three days on 24-hr IV antibiotics, and I have been on two different antibiotics since coming home two weeks ago. I am an otherwise very healthy 57-yr-old woman. I was told I could go back slowly to a regular diet starting about two weeks after surgery and that I shouldn’t have any issues. That is NOT what I am seeing here! My job requires me to meet with people daily and to make presentations in front of important executives. I cannot stop in the middle of a presentation to run out of the room, hoping to make it to the bathroom in time. I am hoping some of you can reassure me that scenario isn’t likely. If not, I will be canceling this surgery!