If this has been ongoing for 12 years I assume you have spoken to the GP or Colorectal clinic in regards to your concerns. 

I ha ve tried multiple times but been given anti diarrhoea tablets. Have asked for food allergies test but refused. The doctor who came round after my op told me I would have lots of diarrhoea so have just put up with it

Amazed you have survived 12 years with diarrhoea...so debilitating and drains all the vital nutrients needed...

Sweethearts  you are so lucky that you have survived 12 years, stop eating cereals for while that help me and l am 82.  I have only gone 18 months before l started to see blood in my stools and my cancer was stage 1.  I wish you a long and beautiful life god bless you 

Hello Frixington,

                            it sounds like your bowel habits have returned to the New normal.l am eight years on from a stoma reversal and my bowel is an ongoing battleground with a whole range of variations constantly vying for supremacy,but not thankfully constipation.

its a challenge but the way l view it is that my bowel has to live with me, not the other way about, its not happy with that but l am too busy living my second chance to allow any concessions to it..At least now l have control andl have named it vesuviarse,it goes with me everywhere so it has a very active life in more ways than one.

At least its preferable to the alternative, but should cancer ever returned l would be damned if l would know, any bowelhabits out of the normal? yeah right. Anyways 12 years is an achievement,and if you ever decided to write a book about your exploits entitled "Toilet paper l have known" it would certainly be an epic

Yours in sympathy if not in harmony,

David