How to Use Nu Hope Stoma Support Belt with Prolapse Strap?

Hello again!

Just received a Nu Hope stoma support belt with prolapse strap. Ok... how does this strap work? I assume it's pulled tight across the bag over the piece of intestine sticking out. How tight should it be? Won't this interfere with output? I also have a parastomal hernia that the belt helps hold in. I'm somewhat upset at my surgeon and nurses. No one told me about possibly developing a hernia, or advising me to wear a support belt after surgery until I healed. I was very malnourished and weak after surgery, got the hernia 3 weeks post op. Maybe the belt wouldn't have helped... but I would have liked to try.

And now.... a lighter moment. I'll start a joke, let's hear your response to finish it.

A stoma walks into a bar.....

Which bar? ... The one with the three-breasted alien in Total Recall?

A stoma walks into a bar:

Bartender: "What's your name?"

Stoma: "Politician"

Bartender: "Why do you call yourself that?"

Stoma: "Because I'm either full of crap or making a lot of noise but not producing a d—n thing."

Very good CatusFan. And might I add: Very on point. I've never known a time when politics is so much in our face every day.

Thanks Axl, brings back fond memories.... or is that mammaries?

Getting Support in the Ostomy Community with LeeAnne Hayden | Hollister

Strap update.

Pulled the strap over my stoma. Really flattened out the bulge. Was comfortable enough to wear for 8 hours. Conclusion: Basically squished my stoma. Output was pancaked all over my wafer. Had to change the bag. So I cut off the prolapse strap. Not sure how the strap is a good idea. I'm now back to looking like that guy in the movie Alien when the little beast popped out of his chest.

Joke update.

A Stoma walks into a bar.... All his life he has lived as a lonely stoma. Just the wafer, bag and a small head to keep him company. He longs to have a neck, body, and arms. Feeling sad he tells the barkeep "gimme a whiskey." Quickly the libation is served and our hero chugs it down in one gulp. Suddenly he grows a neck!

Stoma is stunned. He orders another whiskey and downs it. A little stomach grows into place. Really excited now, stoma says to himself "one more drink and I'll have arms, my dream come true."

Bartender arrives with another whiskey. Stoma stares at it. Then with a chuckle, gulps it down. Suddenly, stoma keels over and dies.

Moral of the story: Quit while you're a head.

Hey Beachboy. I've never used a strap so I can't really help in that department. If you can find a strap/belt with a hole cut in it where you can pull the ostomy bag through and have it hanging on the outside, that would be good. Then the bag wouldn't be "squished" under the strap; it would be hanging freely.

Liked your "stoma" joke. And "Alien" was a great movie.