Stoma Issues After Failed Reconnection Surgery

Have ileostomy. Failed reconnection. Bag for life. No problem with that. It worked good for first 8 months. After reconnection failed, stoma has very little dicharge. Oncologist says gas in colon pressing on small intestine causing no passing. Says no fix except to remove colon. Has anyone ever heard of this?

I have not heard of that but I do have an ileostomy and the gas does build in the bag when I eat some foods.... I think I would ask for this to be carefully explained and a picture/diagram of the process -- I would be afraid something is going to erupt if you leave it ---- I have all the colon gone and a good amount of small intestine.  

No expert here, but I had very dark brown thick discharge and very little of it.  I called surgeon, and he told me to drink 1 cup of dill pickle juice and to make it salty.  Sounded weird, tried it and everything running normal again.  I would not suggest this anywhere but at home.  I stopped at the grocery store, bought small jar of pickles, had salt packets in lunchroom at work.  That lil sucker spewed fast and cleared what was there in about 30 minutes, but had to empty bag 3 times in those 30 minutes.  My stoma HATES salt so I had to drink a lot of water to flush.  Made a big day of potty breaks due to tons of fluid.   I can only add check with your Dr as your situation might not be same as mine.