I had my first emergency surgery on July 12th, 2017. I have an ileostomy on my right side. For 5 to 6 months, I just had horrible pain after eating. I couldn't eat anything without it hurting me. I was in and out of the hospital, had scan after scan. Finally, on Feb 16th after a horrible 4 days of suffering severe pain, I went to the ER once again. This time, they found another anomaly with my intestine near the stoma area. I was admitted and another emergency surgery was done. This time, when I spoke to the doctor, he said I had the worst stricture he had ever seen in his career. He stated that he couldn't believe how anything was getting through. My intestines were enlarged and very thick behind it and I had some severe adhesions that he had to cut out. He had to rebuild the stoma as well but kept the same site. Before, it protruded just slightly so I had to use the convex skin barriers. Now, it is pretty flush with the skin and goes in a little more. He had to reopen me with the same vertical scar that they used the first time and I think it was a little more painful this time around. I still have my staples in and will have them removed on the 20th of March. The doctor said that I had been fighting this stricture in my ileostomy for 5 of the 7 months I had it in. Had I waited any longer to come in, I could have had a burst intestine! He believes that things will work a lot better now and I can already tell a difference from the first one. I chose not to have the extra pain epidural this time and that is probably why it hurt more. I still have to take pain meds off and on but the space between is getting longer. It only happens if I try to do too much which is hard for me not to do as I hate just sitting around a lot. I tried to do a little driving the last two days and ended up not feeling real great because of it so I guess I am not quite ready to drive yet but I needed to go to an appointment and had no one to take me. I cannot tell you about a new site but if they tell you they need to move it, it is probably because the other site is too compromised to use it. I wish you the best. I am glad they fixed mine. I think now I will be able to finally eat real food again! Good luck.