Barbie Butt Issues - Pressure, Itching, and Concerns After Surgery

Hi everyone,

It was a year Oct. 2023 when I had my surgery, permanent ostomy, and a new Barbie butt. Need your thoughts, ostomates, please. I have bad pressure on my Barbie butt this week, can feel a slight 'round' area when putting pressure while feeling it. Lol. And itching like it would when stitches are healing but on the inside. That's a new one. I'm hoping I just need a good flush and my colon is full. But has anyone dealt with this? Heading out of town for a few weeks and really don't have time now to see a doctor or get a scan. Any sharing appreciated. Appreciate you all!

Tina

No idea on your “symptoms.” However, for myself, if I sit for extended amounts of time, mine gets “annoyed” and I can feel it as soon as I sit again. For me, it just takes either walking/standing or lying down for it to go away.

Yeah, sadly walking makes it feel just as bad, if not worse. Thanks for replying.

Hello and welcome to the "hood"

Tina...

You may not believe this but... story...

You viewed my profile seeing my surgery is as new as yours in October 2023...

Agreed?

I offer this to you now because as I'm recovering from repairs to a leaky butt from that surgery...

that I had today...

My surgery was this morning and I have to tell you some of the things that you wrote about, I've had similar situations... but what I'm concerned about is you were talking about a flush?? 😳 I'm not understanding this...

If you have a Barbie butt are you talking about flushing the stoma yet you're feeling pain or pressure in your butt cheeks?? So maybe I misunderstood...

I also suffer from foot-in-mouth disease so bear with me 😊😊😆.

(Likely due to painkillers wearing off right now)

Please elaborate. Thanks

What I meant by a flush is cleaning my colon, similar to when you get a colonoscopy but not so extreme. My thoughts may be my colon is backed up, causing extra pressure on my Barbie butt. Even though I have not been constipated, my last CAT scan was 6 months ago. The doctor said I had a very full colon. I don't know. I have no other issues or leaking with my Barbie butt or stoma, etc. Do you mind me asking why you needed surgery?

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Oct 22, 2022, was my surgery. We are both pretty new to our 'new normal'. Thanks for the reply, Warrior.

It's good to see you're online at least at this hour... that's what it appears right now... so glad you replied...

I guess I got confused because your profile said you had the colostomy in '22 but the Barbie button in '23 and that's why I jumped in because October '23 was my Ken butt and now I am about 17 weeks post-op and two weeks ago I started bleeding from the butt...

And believe it or not, it was after walking and I've had some irritation down there and I just couldn't... excuse the image... put my finger on it. I started using baby wipes and the baby wipes were showing spotting—blood—not poop. I have an ileostomy and you're saying you have a colostomy, two different things going on here, and you have some of your large intestine left. It's really baffling me because with a closed Barbie butt, I'm not familiar with how someone with a colostomy flushes it, and I probably shouldn't reply to that...

There are other people here, I think it's called irrigation?? I'm not quite sure how that works, so hopefully those people will chime in... but as far as anything coming out of the butt, I'm your man!! 😳 Because anything coming out of the butt is unacceptable.

I don't care what the doctor says, that it might be normal or it happens, that's bull...

So you're referring to irrigation maybe??? Obviously, you're getting backed up and then having the colostomy?? I don't think the large intestine that you have left is hooked up to the colostomy bag unless you're talking about a loop colostomy, which I'm totally unfamiliar with and I can't comment on... sadly, 😔 I'm sorry.

Hi Tina, I get that sensation of pressure back there whenever I lift something that I shouldn't or shovel snow, but I don't have any swelling or a lump, and it usually goes away after a short time.

See your surgeon.

What I cannot understand is that you still have a colon but you have a Barbie butt. If you still have a colon, they don't normally close your butt. If it is that you have a colostomy, then it may be different. Can you explain in more detail, please? Regards, IGGIE

I have a Barbie butt and all of my colon. Rectal cancer took my anus/rectum stuff; otherwise, I have everything else.

G-Day AlexT, So which are you, Ileostomy or Colostomy? I'm under the impression that your colon still makes mucus, so how do you get rid of it? Sorry, it's just clicked with a colostomy it would come out in the bag. Regards, IGGIE

Colostomy, and I guess that's where it goes, not really anywhere for it to.

Hey Tina... not sure I answered your question about why I had surgery.

You can read my profile to find that out... but it was Crohn's gone wild for years.

How are you making out these days?

I also had rectal cancer, but they took everything from the large intestine down.