J-pouch Life

It’s been two years since my takedown and, as a society, we still don’t have flying cars or cloned dinosaurs. That I know of. I mean, I check the news daily to see if any of these scientific breakthroughs have become reality, but no. Nothing. Come 2034, I better have robot legs with jet thrusters. [...]

Hi all! So for those of you who have followed my story for the past few months you know there have been many ups and downs.  New theories emerged, the one most perplexing and possibly exciting one being that perhaps I didn’t actually have Crohn’s disease-maybe just a horrible case of pouchitis due to poor [...]

So for those of you who read my first blog entry on this website, here’s my update. On Friday, January 16, 2009 I went in for a pouchoscopy to see what was up with me having such difficulty having bowel movements. I had to push so hard to go to the bathroom that I felt [...]

“Approximately 30 to 50% of individuals with the pelvic pouch will develop pouchitis at some point in their life.” -  Mount Sinai Pouchitis Information After 9 beautiful, flawless months with my jpouch, I had my first case of pouchitis.  It was pretty simple to diagnosis by myself, almost immediately went from normal BMs to heavy [...]