abowie

The point of the J pouch is to return you to as near to "normal" plumbing as possible.

I can't see any particular reason why diving should be a problem once you've recovered from the surgery and everything is working as intended. I guess it'll depend a bit on what the output state of your ileal content is like but if you're diving OK now with an end ileostomy then that ought not change that much. I suspect that you're probably right; you are likely the deepest "colon free" diver out there.

Apitkin's comments ring true to me too. The actual anatomy of these sort of reconstructions is so variable that there would be a wide range of inter-individual variability in outcome. So describing what is "normal" for someone with a J pouch is pretty hard anyway.

Best of luck with your surgery; UC is a curse. Along with schizophrenia, diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease has been on my "hope I never get that" list since I was a med student.

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