Hi everyone. I'm 40 year's old and Back in January 2020 I was diagnosed with rectal cancer. Had operation in March of 2020 to have the cancer cut out and ileostomy fitted . The operation didn't quite go to plan . So ended up having another operation to put things right. Had 3 months of chemotherapy in that year which obviously was not nice at all. Since then I've had two ct scans and thank god I'm now cancer free. So 18 months after having my ileostomy operation I decided to have the operation reversed. I stupidly didn't do much research on this as was told by my surgeon and stoma nurses that the first few weeks I'll probably just have loose stools and will be going to the toilet a little more often than I was before I had my ileostomy operation. It's nearly 2 weeks since I had my reversal operation and I know it's early days but I'm now so depressed and think I've made the worst decision I've ever made in my life . Have people on here expirenced the same situation.
