When that happens, j-pouch surgery is often the next step. Here’s what that procedure entails, how that process unfolded for Richman, and what life with a j-pouch really looks like. When colon ...

Inflammation that occurs after J-pouch surgery is a common complication of the procedure. Here’s advice on how to cope. Christine Lenhardt was seven months pregnant with her second child when ...

J-pouch surgery can also raise your chances for ... It will probably take time to adjust to living with the stoma and the ileostomy system. But you should get used to emptying the pouch with ...

But if your doctors remove it because of disease, you might have what’s called J-pouch surgery so you can poop as you did before. In as many as half the cases, the pouch that replaced your ...