I have to get up to empty my pouch frequently at night. Can anybody recommend a high-output pouch that they use successfully to be able to sleep through the night? If you could, please name the brand and product.
My output sometimes tends to be watery consistency fluid and other times oatmeal-consistency fluid. Looking at the size of the nozzles on the pouches in the Internet ads, I wonder if the oatmeal-consistency fluid would clog these nozzles.
Hi there Psmith. Well, you're dreaming if you think you can get through a night without emptying.
Some of us get up as often as three times during the night, and in your previous post earlier this month, lies the answer why.
Having a larger bag doesn't help you sleep any better, my friend. Sadly, it still fills, balloons, and can pop a seal.
And please explain what do you mean about a nozzle? Are you talking about that charcoal filter which has been deemed useless by members?
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Hi P,
Coloplast makes this guy (click on link below). Has plenty of capacity, no funnel tip end and is readily available. I'm just not sure how you'd orient it while laying down in the bed so everything flows to the bottom instead of just getting backed up. Never used one, since I rarely sleep for more than a couple hours, but have been interested in finding a higher capacity bag with a normal drainage end. This is the only one I've found that doesn't have the funnel tip end, which won't work if you have any significant undigested food in your output.
https://www.amazon.com/Assura-2-Piece-Output-Drainable-16quot/dp/B014I0CH94
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Yo bro. Cool item. Isn't it designed for urine? Urostomy patients? That thing is damn scary looking.
I'm still trying to figure out what he's talking about with a nozzle. If he's using this type of bagging system already, then why?
Yeah, I took my stupid pills today. Dense as a brick.
Hey Bricklayer,
By 'nozzle' we're talking about the hard funnel end of most high output bags. It's plastic, and if your output has anything large and solid in it, it could block the funnel. Urostomy bags have the same end, just smaller in size, but I see the major suppliers are selling "high capacity" or "high output" bags for ileostomates with the same tip. I think the pics are a little deceiving because the funnel end isn't that small, but I'd still be concerned if I didn't chew something and a big chunk made it out into the bag. And I agree, that bag I posted does look a bit intimidating. I could see myself being awoken by a noise or something, and forgetting that snake is attached to me, getting up and bolting out of bed, only to find it chasing me!
Headline reads, "Man shoots ostomy bag thinking he was being chased by a snake," story at 11.
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Replace man with farmer in headline news.
Sorry, this nozzle stuff is tripping me up.
I have a 12-inch......(shut up).....high out bag, the largest of its kind... It looks nothing like this snake bag.
Hello Psmith.
The question about high output pouches has arisen several times on here, so I presume the replies will still be somewhere in the 'Collections' section at the top of the page.
I found that one of my biggest problems with any bags at night-time was with gas, which would be so prolific it would 'balloon' inside the bags and force them from their mounting plate.
This has long-since been 'fixed' by using an irrigation sleeve instead, which can be easily folded up and clipped to form (what in essence is) a large bag.
One of the several other advantages of using irrigation sleeves is that they are so easy to run water into the end of them and then swill round to empty down the toilet with literally no 'splash'. This is very useful if one has a wife that is easily disturbed during the night and doesn't really want to be hearing my toileting routines waking her up!
Best wishes
Bill
High output pouches have a nozzle to open at the bottom of the pouch instead of a velcro closure.
Warrior,
Thanks for your comment.
Could you please give me the details about your 12 inch high out bag? Who makes it? What's the name of the product?
Will do. I am at work now but will fill you in this evening. Dig?
If you use a 2 piece pouch, you could attach an irrigation sleeve at night. They close by clip and are easy to empty even if they are rather long. Coloplast, Hollister, and Convatec all make their own irrigation sleeves that connect to their respective flanges.
Several hours later... yeah, I just remembered everything I use is listed in my profile. Take a look, but the bag I use, I was told, is the largest volume type of bag. Nothing weird looking about it. This one has Velcro to secure the tail or bottom end where you drain it.
It's made by Coloplast for the SenSura Mio. The pouch item number is 11472 from Edge Park.
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Welp... thought there for a second you were talking about a dong. But it can't be 12 inches... that would make it a foot. 🤔
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First, farmers don't shoot snakes. We know they have a valuable place in our ecosystem. You shoot all the snakes and the mice overrun you. Other snakes keep those snakes in check and the hawks keep those snakes in check... it's already figured out for you... you just have to stand back and watch. Only city folks shoot snakes... and most everything else they don't understand, including people... which come to think of it might not be such a bad idea. But I digress. Just leave the snakes be.
The type of bag you have is a 'high output' bag... you're right. And it has a funnel on the end with a cap. All the bigger "high output bags" seem to have this type of end, rather than a clip style or roll-up end. We're using the words "funnel" and "nozzle" interchangeably. That means they mean the same thing. 😉
The concern with the funnel on your (and other) high output bags is what happens if your output is on the solid side or contains chunks of undigested food... will it fit through the funnel or just stop it up so it won't empty?
Now let's switch gears to the snake bag. There's no funnel tip on the end of the snake bag. It uses a clip which you can see in the pic below. So no issue with firmer output not coming out when you go to drain it. You capisce now? I knew you would.
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Who else sees this "bag" as a one-eyed semi-human face with a long elephant nose and clip-on tie?
Yeah, I'd wear that. 🙄🤥
Any chance you can share some of those meds you're on with the rest of us? We'd like to see the one-eyed elephant man nose too.
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You misplaced your glasses again, Brother Bob?
And the family thought you were the visually impaired one. 🤓🧐
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