Dear Stella Stoma...
Hi, My father has a stoma after having had his bladder removed. He is 85 but now suffers with extreme fatigue, he believes this is as a result of suffering from an awful lot of UTIs since the operation. This extreme tiredness is constant, not just during a UTI incident. Have you any experience of this extreme tiredness in others?
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I myself suffer terrible with fatigue to the point I was seen by the Chronic fatigue clinic back in January.
Their advice was that they couldn’t diagnose CFS due to not being able to eliminate the infections being a cause.
My specialist advises that it can take a few weeks to recover from fatigue after an infection so if we are getting multiple its going to really have a knock on affect on our bodies
Has your father had his blood checked for vitamin deficiencies? B12, Iron and vitamin D are a cause of fatigue and it’s common to be deficient if you have a urostomy due to part of the small bowel being removed.
I run an online support group and fatigue is discussed widely with the 200 members, it’s very common. The trick is to follow something like the spoon theory which makes you practice pacing so that you can still enjoy things in life…
Hope this information has helped a little.