Having enough bowel for the procedure

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Have you or your doctors had any concerns about you not having enough small bowel for the k-pouch, especially if it fails and you need to return to an ileostomy? My doctor mentioned it, but I thought that most people with k-pouches or BCIRs actually had j-pouches removed earlier on. I actually thought there were people out there living without a significant amount of small bowel and doing just fine.