Dealing with husband's cancer

Hi Evie72 and a warm welcome to the board. Yes I remember it well! It’s called ileus and it’s not nice. I had it after my tumour removal and then again after my stoma reversal 18 months later. Is he still in hospital? I was readmitted then put on nil by mouth for a few days, then water only, then liquids and so on - lost a lot of weight but regained it eventually. Sometimes the hospital inserts an ng tube into the stomach but they don’t sound very nice.

Ive attached a link to a post from a couple of months ago from a lady who’s husband was I exactly the same position. As you can see, it took a while for him to recover but he got there eventually.

 RE: Bowel stopped working post op. 

Hope this helps and he starts to move in the right direction soon

Take care

Karen x

Thanks for your reply yes he is still in hospital, he has got a tube down to his stomach, they have tried to introduce food twice now and both time resulted in violent sickness.  I'll look at the other post. Just very scary

Hi Evie my husband had this and was very unwell for 5 days he also had the complication that his bowel had become trapped in his original inner wound due to his wretchng before they put the tube down and were able to siphon off some of the bile so he had to go back to theatre for another op to free  it.

After a couple of days he started feeling wind pain and started to pass wind Into his stoma and very slowly he started to have output In his stoma. 

I would say it took 5 days for his ileus to resolve. Hope there is some Improvement soon for your poor husband have they scanned him to diagnose the ileus if not might be worth asking just to rule out blockages. 

Take care Debs 

Yes he has had ct scan and several x rays.  Doctors seem happy with everything, they say just taking time for his bowel to wake up.  His stoma seems to be working ok, which I don't quite understand if his bowel isn't working.  I just worry that we are now 11 days after the op with no end in sight