J-pouch Life

before it all began

Hi everyone. My name is Casey, I’m 21 and live in Florida. I took a lot of pictures through the last year of my surgeries and decided to share in hopes of helping someone going through the same situation. Feel free to ask questions or just leave comments! my email is yesac87@hotmail.com

sick times

I was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis in Jan ‘07 when I was 19. I was put on Asacol and did not respond. For some reason I missed the learning period of being able to swallow pills and was chewing them unaware that they were a time release medication. About 2 mo. later I was hospitalized for a month to get the first flare up under control. They took me off Asocol and started me on IV steroids and Cyclosporine. I had many blood transfusions because I was losing a lot of blood in my stool. It was a very tough month, I was vomiting everything I tried to eat and lost about 30lbs. I was still taking cyclosporine and prednisone 11 mo. later when I decided to go through with surgery.

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Casey’s Blog and Photos Here

These posts might also help out:

• December 28, 2008 -- Sarah’s Permanent Ileostomy (8)
• May 11, 2008 -- UC to J-Pouch Surgery (21)
• February 13, 2010 -- Take a walk in my shoes (40)
• February 10, 2010 -- Making Ostomys HOT! (2)