Kate Middleton in Hospital - Recovering from Surgery

[Anonymous]

My guess is she is having to have a section of intestines removed due to many of the things people have speculated about already. Diverticulitis is another idea. I am guessing the length of time is in part due to caution, but also, maybe she feels like she'll rest more comfortably in the hospital. Who knows! Wishing her a speedy recovery!

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Anonymous wrote:Chron's or diverticular disease requiring bowel resection/s.

Yes, open colon resection.

Does this usually require an ostomy bag?

My brother had a colectomy for Crohn's disease, plus they took his diseased gallbladder and had to repair an anal fistula (caused by the Crohn's). He was like inpatient for 9 days. The thing about inflammatory bowel disease is that sometimes people are really sick by the time they need surgery, and you need to get that under control. My brother needed iv nutrition, steroids and biologics bf he was healthy enough to withstand surgery.

She always looks active and healthy—and as short ago as Christmas. Did your brother appear sick, was he active?

Not the poster you are responding to, but makeup and filters can work wonders. My son got rail think like her with Crohn's. She is unnaturally thin. In his case the small intestine was impacted.

My BIL’s second wife was like that. She was in and out of the hospital for years. Often for weeks at a time.

Once I had a horrendous Crohn’s flare (several perforations, ugh) and I got really skinny, and I still was bigger than Kate always is. When my Crohn’s is bad (which it is a lot) I am usually overweight or on the high end of normal because I can’t eat any food with roughage (no nuts, beans, fruits, vegetables, whole grains, basically anything healthy that would help you stay at a lower weight) and I don’t have the energy to move much.

Crohn’s is a weird disease and it manifests so differently with everyone.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t think that Kate has any obligation to share the details, but I want to speculate anyway.

I don’t think it’s Crohn’s because Crohn’s is usually diagnosed in early adulthood, not at age 40+. I want to believe that if Kate had Crohn’s she would make it one of her charity issues instead of keeping it secret. I say this as a Crohn’s sufferer who is trying to bring more awareness to the disease in order to get more funding to find a cure, because right now we are stuck with the best treatment being a massively expensive (for now) and relatively dangerous medication. But of course Crohn’s sufferers have zero obligation to disclose because people are stupidly immature about the disease, and everyone has a right to health privacy.

And yes I know this is highly speculative!

I will add that not all Crohn’s sufferers consistently have diarrhea. I rarely do. My symptoms are abdominal pain and the occasional bowel obstruction. And I look completely fine and always have. Except for one point where I had a perforation Crohn’s has never made me look sick.

She may be more private about it, for whatever reason. I chose to be outspoken after my colon cancer because I felt like my story could help friends and family to avoid what led to my scary situation. But I easily could have gone the other way and kept it to myself because what is going on with your colon is not always an easy topic to discuss.

It would be nice if she made it her cause or whatever (if she actually has a bowel disease) but she’s human with her own feelings about what she wants to share publicly.

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Anonymous wrote:I think it's the most obvious explanation- it's something embarrassing that involves her bowels and pretty perfect princesses don't have bowels. The clinic she's in specializes in this. Think horses not zebras.

I suppose you'd be just fine with having your bowel surgery discussed across the world?!

Calm down.

Kate should’ve known about what she chased after for a decade. Surely she knew that there wouldn’t be much privacy, even for health-related matters.

I certainly wish her well, but certainly she doesn’t expect this to not be speculated about.

King Charles doesn't have 57 pages of discussion on his prostate. Maybe it's easier to be open, even if she is entitled to privacy.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t think that Kate has any obligation to share the details, but I want to speculate anyway.

I don’t think it’s Crohn’s because Crohn’s is usually diagnosed in early adulthood, not at age 40+. I want to believe that if Kate had Crohn’s she would make it one of her charity issues instead of keeping it secret. I say this as a Crohn’s sufferer who is trying to bring more awareness to the disease in order to get more funding to find a cure, because right now we are stuck with the best treatment being a massively expensive (for now) and relatively dangerous medication. But of course Crohn’s sufferers have zero obligation to disclose because people are stupidly immature about the disease, and everyone has a right to health privacy.

And yes I know this is highly speculative!

I will add that not all Crohn’s sufferers consistently have diarrhea. I rarely do. My symptoms are abdominal pain and the occasional bowel obstruction. And I look completely fine and always have. Except for one point where I had a perforation Crohn’s has never made me look sick.

She may be more private about it, for whatever reason. I chose to be outspoken after my colon cancer because I felt like my story could help friends and family to avoid what led to my scary situation. But I easily could have gone the other way and kept it to myself because what is going on with your colon is not always an easy topic to discuss.

It would be nice if she made it her cause or whatever (if she actually has a bowel disease) but she’s human with her own feelings about what she wants to share publicly.

It feels like the bowel and bladder issues are the last bastion of things people won't talk about. People were hush hush like this about breast cancer in the past.

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Anonymous wrote:I think it's the most obvious explanation- it's something embarrassing that involves her bowels and pretty perfect princesses don't have bowels. The clinic she's in specializes in this. Think horses not zebras.

I suppose you'd be just fine with having your bowel surgery discussed across the world?!

Calm down.

Kate should’ve known about what she chased after for a decade. Surely she knew that there wouldn’t be much privacy, even for health-related matters.

I certainly wish her well, but certainly she doesn’t expect this to not be speculated about.

Knowing that you have little to no privacy doesn’t make disclosing an illness that is possibly scary and/or life threatening any easier.

Again, she doesn’t owe anyone an explanation, no matter how much the press and public wish to speculate

But why release the name of the hospital or any information at all?

So the media could camp out and see William arrive the next day

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t think that Kate has any obligation to share the details, but I want to speculate anyway.

I don’t think it’s Crohn’s because Crohn’s is usually diagnosed in early adulthood, not at age 40+. I want to believe that if Kate had Crohn’s she would make it one of her charity issues instead of keeping it secret. I say this as a Crohn’s sufferer who is trying to bring more awareness to the disease in order to get more funding to find a cure, because right now we are stuck with the best treatment being a massively expensive (for now) and relatively dangerous medication. But of course Crohn’s sufferers have zero obligation to disclose because people are stupidly immature about the disease, and everyone has a right to health privacy.

And yes I know this is highly speculative!

I will add that not all Crohn’s sufferers consistently have diarrhea. I rarely do. My symptoms are abdominal pain and the occasional bowel obstruction. And I look completely fine and always have. Except for one point where I had a perforation Crohn’s has never made me look sick.

She may be more private about it, for whatever reason. I chose to be outspoken after my colon cancer because I felt like my story could help friends and family to avoid what led to my scary situation. But I easily could have gone the other way and kept it to myself because what is going on with your colon is not always an easy topic to discuss.

It would be nice if she made it her cause or whatever (if she actually has a bowel disease) but she’s human with her own feelings about what she wants to share publicly.

Oh for sure and that’s why I said “Crohn’s sufferers have zero obligation to disclose” and “everyone has a right to medical privacy.”

[Anonymous]

I don't know that we can conclude that she is choosing to keep this private forever. It might be that they're waiting until she's past whatever crisis led to this to talk through options about making this public. It might be that they're waiting until she's home with her kids, and they see her recovering well, to make this public.

Or she might choose to keep it quiet forever, which is of course, her right.

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Anonymous wrote:I heard she had a 50 foot parasite impacting her abdomen and certain organs had to be repaired.

All too common these days. Hopefully she uses this as a platform to raise awareness for 15.24 meter parasites.

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Anonymous wrote:I think it's the most obvious explanation- it's something embarrassing that involves her bowels and pretty perfect princesses don't have bowels. The clinic she's in specializes in this. Think horses not zebras.

I suppose you'd be just fine with having your bowel surgery discussed across the world?!

Calm down.

Kate should’ve known about what she chased after for a decade. Surely she knew that there wouldn’t be much privacy, even for health-related matters.

I certainly wish her well, but certainly she doesn’t expect this to not be speculated about.

Knowing that you have little to no privacy doesn’t make disclosing an illness that is possibly scary and/or life threatening any easier.

Again, she doesn’t owe anyone an explanation, no matter how much the press and public wish to speculate

But why release the name of the hospital or any information at all?

So the media could camp out and see William arrive the next day

+1

And so that media will focus on Kate's update rather than prince Andrew's after the recent unsealed court documents about Jeffrey Epstein.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t think that Kate has any obligation to share the details, but I want to speculate anyway.

I don’t think it’s Crohn’s because Crohn’s is usually diagnosed in early adulthood, not at age 40+. I want to believe that if Kate had Crohn’s she would make it one of her charity issues instead of keeping it secret. I say this as a Crohn’s sufferer who is trying to bring more awareness to the disease in order to get more funding to find a cure, because right now we are stuck with the best treatment being a massively expensive (for now) and relatively dangerous medication. But of course Crohn’s sufferers have zero obligation to disclose because people are stupidly immature about the disease, and everyone has a right to health privacy.

And yes I know this is highly speculative!

I will add that not all Crohn’s sufferers consistently have diarrhea. I rarely do. My symptoms are abdominal pain and the occasional bowel obstruction. And I look completely fine and always have. Except for one point where I had a perforation Crohn’s has never made me look sick.

She may be more private about it, for whatever reason. I chose to be outspoken after my colon cancer because I felt like my story could help friends and family to avoid what led to my scary situation. But I easily could have gone the other way and kept it to myself because what is going on with your colon is not always an easy topic to discuss.

It would be nice if she made it her cause or whatever (if she actually has a bowel disease) but she’s human with her own feelings about what she wants to share publicly.

It feels like the bowel and bladder issues are the last bastion of things people won't talk about. People were hush hush like this about breast cancer in the past.

Yes-I agree 100%

There is a stigma that needs to be broken, but it isn’t anyone’s personal responsibility

She would certainly have a wonderful platform, though, if that is indeed what is going on. I’m sure that it will be taken into consideration if and when she is in a condition to come forward.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't know that we can conclude that she is choosing to keep this private forever. It might be that they're waiting until she's past whatever crisis led to this to talk through options about making this public. It might be that they're waiting until she's home with her kids, and they see her recovering well, to make this public.

Or she might choose to keep it quiet forever, which is of course, her right.

That’s right. As I noted, I was in too much shock and too scared to be able to go public before my cancer surgery. Once it was over and I knew I was going to be ok, I was ready to share my story and hope it would convince others to investigate “stomach pains” and/or get people to not be squeamish about colonoscopies

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t think that Kate has any obligation to share the details, but I want to speculate anyway.

I don’t think it’s Crohn’s because Crohn’s is usually diagnosed in early adulthood, not at age 40+. I want to believe that if Kate had Crohn’s she would make it one of her charity issues instead of keeping it secret. I say this as a Crohn’s sufferer who is trying to bring more awareness to the disease in order to get more funding to find a cure, because right now we are stuck with the best treatment being a massively expensive (for now) and relatively dangerous medication. But of course Crohn’s sufferers have zero obligation to disclose because people are stupidly immature about the disease, and everyone has a right to health privacy.

And yes I know this is highly speculative!

I will add that not all Crohn’s sufferers consistently have diarrhea. I rarely do. My symptoms are abdominal pain and the occasional bowel obstruction. And I look completely fine and always have. Except for one point where I had a perforation Crohn’s has never made me look sick.

Wrong. Crohns is often diagnosed in late teens early adulthood, but ALSO now often first diagnosed in middle age and it's on the rise.

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Anonymous wrote:I think it's the most obvious explanation- it's something embarrassing that involves her bowels and pretty perfect princesses don't have bowels. The clinic she's in specializes in this. Think horses not zebras.

I suppose you'd be just fine with having your bowel surgery discussed across the world?!

Calm down.

Kate should’ve known about what she chased after for a decade. Surely she knew that there wouldn’t be much privacy, even for health-related matters.

I certainly wish her well, but certainly she doesn’t expect this to not be speculated about.

King Charles doesn't have 57 pages of discussion on his prostate. Maybe it's easier to be open, even if she is entitled to privacy.

King Charles said it was his prostate and there's no need for 57 pages of speculation. If she said what it was people wouldn't be so curious.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t think that Kate has any obligation to share the details, but I want to speculate anyway.

I don’t think it’s Crohn’s because Crohn’s is usually diagnosed in early adulthood, not at age 40+. I want to believe that if Kate had Crohn’s she would make it one of her charity issues instead of keeping it secret. I say this as a Crohn’s sufferer who is trying to bring more awareness to the disease in order to get more funding to find a cure, because right now we are stuck with the best treatment being a massively expensive (for now) and relatively dangerous medication. But of course Crohn’s sufferers have zero obligation to disclose because people are stupidly immature about the disease, and everyone has a right to health privacy.

And yes I know this is highly speculative!

I will add that not all Crohn’s sufferers consistently have diarrhea. I rarely do. My symptoms are abdominal pain and the occasional bowel obstruction. And I look completely fine and always have. Except for one point where I had a perforation Crohn’s has never made me look sick.

She may be more private about it, for whatever reason. I chose to be outspoken after my colon cancer because I felt like my story could help friends and family to avoid what led to my scary situation. But I easily could have gone the other way and kept it to myself because what is going on with your colon is not always an easy topic to discuss.

It would be nice if she made it her cause or whatever (if she actually has a bowel disease) but she’s human with her own feelings about what she wants to share publicly.

It feels like the bowel and bladder issues are the last bastion of things people won't talk about. People were hush hush like this about breast cancer in the past.

True and I think this will change over the years, especially with bowel. IBDs are on the rise, IBS is common and colon cancer among the young is on the rise. I am already seeing more articles on IBDs and on what your poop tells you about health, looking for blood in stool, constipation and the gut microbiome. Our comfort level with these things is increasing and if she does have an IBD and discloses it, I think she will help normalize speaking about these issues.