J-pouch Life

We know you are headed into surgery Elise, and we wanted to wish you a safe surgery and a speedy recovery! You’ve been such a wonderful friend on jpouch.net, and now you’ll soon be giving advice to others headed into surgery.

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 [...]

9 months after my “takedown” surgery, here is an update on my status. My life 9 months with my jpouch now is completely normal, I don’t think about being sick. I don’t worry about what I eat (like UC days) like pizza, in my UC days I would eat pizza but I do it knowing [...]