Gastro with a Bag

Hey, i know i havent been on here in a long time, but i have recently got Gastro and everything i do seems to make it worse. Im not sleeping at night because i am scared that i will wake up to a leaking bag,and need to change all my sheets and wake my husband up ect. I am still experiencing leaking bags throughout the day and in the ast 24 hrs i have needed to change it 7 times, with emptying every half hr or so. I am trying to find things to settle the acid down and the cramps i am getting. If anyone has experienced this please let me know what you have done to help it. Im almost at the point of going to Hospital as i am so weak...



thanks

Brooke

maybe if you're that weak then a trip to the hospital becomes a should

Emptying the bag that often has got to get you dehydrated - it did me!!!!!  Try Gatorade it helped me alot - I drank the G2 "rain".



I lost my bag several times throughout the day. Have you tried a Marlin bag with shallow convexity? This helped me alot!! My skin was totaly shredded from the bag falling off so many times.



Sinful is right - make that trip to the ER for hydration if you feel you need to. That is nothing to play around with. Get an appointment with a GOOD ostomy nurse.



Will keep you in my thoughts!



Melissa

I had similar symtoms and ended up in the hospital 4 times after my ileostomy surgery for dehydration.  I now take up to 18 immodium's a day and I drink metamucil and I have a prescription for a powder to drink to bulk up my output.  I am just considered a "high output" patient and I have to take very special care of myself.  I also have an ostomy nurse and when I was leaking as much as you are leaking, she finally measured my stoma over and over again and it had shrunk.  I have pre- cut appliances now because I could not cut the hole properly.  I just kept leaking.  It has finally toned down, but I could not have done these things without all the professional help I got.  Try and get some help asap,  especially the gastro docs and the stoma nurses.  They helped me so so much.



Good luck,

Betty