thanksmem

I'm more excited to see their morbid reactions when i show them my bag and say "This is where all my shits go, into a bag, into oblivion".

Not in the slightest, I honestly really don't care. Because this bag isn't permanent, so within 6th months ill just have a few scars on my stomach of where the incisions were and where the opening was - they will redirect it (my poop) to my anus again.

Thank you ever so much! However, I'm in the UK. So not only would shipping be a lot (I assume you're out) but I can get free supplies from the NHS :) I really appreciate the offer though!

My symptoms when it first started where waking up one day at the age of 8, running to the bathroom and literally pooping out blood everywhere. My mothers a doctor so she immediately rushed me to the hospital, where I continued to go around 50 times that day, straight blood, had to get transfusions. After i think a month i calmed down, they gave me high doses of steroids and others drugs to calm my colon. I was still going 5 times a day but luckily no blood. And ever since then my condition gets worse once a year where i get blood again and go around 15 times a day, but it normally calms down again within a few days - this is called a flare. And other symptoms are severe stomach cramps, I'm talking it makes you cry, exhaustion doing the most mundane tasks, nausea, dehydration. However for the last 9 months I've been in a constant flare with all symptoms hitting me and no medicines will stop. And regarding the second question, no never. This bag will be temporary, after two more surgeries they put a pouch in me, which acts as a fake anus - so I will pass my poop though there - this is like 6 months down the line though. Even then, my poop will never be hard, ill be going 4 times a day or more. But I'll be able to hold them in, and no more tablets! I'm currently on 10 tablets a day!

Definitely! Imagine having to take an average of 10 tablets or more a day for the past 8 years of your life. And every once a year, your face puffs up because of the medications (It's called a moon face) all while you feel like complete and utter crap all the time, depressed, exhausted and everything you could imagine. I will no longer have to scavenge for a toilet wherever we go, I barely go out any more because I'm afraid their won't be a toilet or i won't make it in time. I'll never be normal, but I'll feel so much better! No more putting up with the above!