Re: surgery and weight loss

[Guest guest]

Jodi,

I was diagnosed with Crohn's in my terminal ileum and had a section of the

terminal ileum removed in 1967.

The odds are that people with narrowing and disease in the ileum from Crohn's

that have a resection will often end up needing another resection at some point.

That was true for me. I probably should have had a second resection in the 80's

but I was reluctant to do that because I figured that the longer I put it off,

the less total resections I'd need in my life.

The other reason was that I was seriously testing the adage that you can never

be too thin. At 6' 1 " , my weight varied from 140 down to 128.

Then I discovered the SCD and started it in 1995. My weight fairly rapidly went

from 128 up to 170 and then stabilized in the 168 to 174 range. It really seems

true that the SCD normalizes weight for both underweight and overweight people.

With my better weight, plus the prospect of the SCD likely to keep me from ever

needing a resection again, I had my second (and probably last) resection in

1997. The laporoscopic surgery went well except that the scarred section was so

hard that they had to make a larger incision because it was to ridgid to fit

through the usual small incision used with laproscopic resections.

I was back doing fairly physical work 2 weeks after the surgery. I'm the person

that wrote the article about sugar in wine, and grape harvest that year was 2

weeks after my surgery.

14 years after starting SCD and 12 years after my resection all is still OK. My

routine colonoscopies at age 50 and 60 showed no evidence of Crohn's.

Tom

jodah235 wrote:

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> I was told the surgery will make me loose weight and the type of surgery

> I am to have ileocolectomy including half of my transverse colon and

> about a foot of small bowel will have me loosing weight for a while.

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> I lost quite a bit of weight from my stay in Israel. I am now back up to

> about 115 pounds and staying there. I was 125 before I left for Israel.

> In Israel I must of lost at least 25 pounds in a very short amount of

> time. I am so happy I was festively plump. I am very short 5 feet or 5'1

> so I am at a good weight now. I don't like being too skinny as this

> worries me.

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> Has anyone had to worry about this with surgery?

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> I am very glad I have extra weight on me- I couldn't imagine doing all

> of this on an emergency basis during an awful flare.

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> Jodi

[Guest guest]

Tom,

Thank you so much for writing this..

Reading about others post-surgery and how SCD works makes me feel so much better

going into this. Many of you don't hang here anymore as you are living healthy

lives

I have so much anxiety when I think about the surgery and hospitalization.

I never want to be in this position ever again in my life.

Let alone needing to contemplate Cancer.

Much appreciation!

Jodi

> 14 years after starting SCD and 12 years after my resection all is still OK.

My routine colonoscopies at age 50 and 60 showed no evidence of Crohn's.

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