I've had my ostomy with a 2x failed ileoanal pouch since 2007. The pouch never worked and left me in diapers for a summer in Phoenix... which just doesn't work. For whatever reason, they left the pouch in but discovered it. Throughout the years, I've had multiple surgeries with multiple complications. Most of the surgeries were due to poorly placed stoma, to an inny that leaked and leaked. But finally, when things seem to be going along okay, I began to experience an uncontrolled slow drip of green slime from my rectum. The slime was usually about the size of a quarter one or two times a day. In the past year or so, the volume, color, and viscosity of the discharge have increased to the point that 6-10 times per day between 0.5-2oz involuntarily seep out. The color is now 25% clear, almost always accompanied with brown and red discharge as well. The discharge can't be feces because the plumbing isn't set up that way. Over the past 6 months or so, I've devised a workaround by folding a paper towel and placing it between my butt cheeks. However, lately, the volume has increased to a point that the paper towel becomes completely saturated, goes into my underwear, and is now staining my outside pants. The dogs ate some of the paper towels that were in the trash can the other day and upon inspection, there was the slightest smell of almost a sweet flower, like a petunia. I wish I could say my crap smelled like petunias, lol, but the colored, pleasant-smelling discharge just doesn't seem or feel right.
FYI, I've got a pouchoscopy scheduled for next Tues. I'll let you know, but has anyone experienced such a phenomenon?
