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When it's a pain in your new arse.
What, didn't laugh? Is that an oldie or something.

I have had an ileostomy for two years now but recently been having more leaks. I am using coloplast products and have had good success with them for some time but recently have had more leaks. In discussing this with coloplast they said they felt after looking at a picture of my stoma that I had “shiny skin” under the barrier and that the shiny skin is caused over time by the barrier cover ...

Hello everyone! I just joined this group and am happy to be here. My ostomy journey started in March of 2022 when dx with stage 3 rectal cancer. I had an ileostomy at that time which was very challenging for the first several months! Convex wafers were the game changer for me! After 1 1/2 years of trying to have a reversal several times, I was able to have it done in Aug. of 2023. I then had a ...

Hi, I wear a stoma guard in the shower but water gets under the wafer tape and I think it is irritating my skin. Anyone else having this issue?

Hi
I need help. Output has been getting under my barrier ring and my skin is stripping. It hurts pretty freakin bad. So I did a change out this morning. I washed it with head and shoulders. I wiped it with calamine lotion. I let everything dry for a while. I used a barrier wipe then my ring. It lasted 5 minutes before I could feel something wasn't right. I was already leaking under my wafe ...

Has anyone had their stoma nurse use silver nitrate on a granuloma? Going next week to have it done and was wondering what the process is. I read where people here did it themselves and was wondering so I know what to expect. How long will I go to my nurse for treatments? How long to see granuloma getting small, etc. I wasn't able to ask the nurse when I booked the appt. She will answer my que ...

JOSEPH WOOD KRUTCH was a wonderful nature writer and well worth reading for those looking for something in that genre. He worried about different species, as you would expect, with humanity being at the top of that list. He was an environmentalist long before it became the thing it is today. He even went so far as to wonder what the world would be like if we humans would pass into history. ...

After 2 years of stomal bliss... a new experience.
Awoke really early. Warm, snug, and content. Uninterested in exiting my cozy cocoon, I instinctively reached for the bag to evaluate status. Damn! Swollen like a ripe football. I thought, lots of gas. Without looking, grabbed the flange, cracked it open a bit. Pressed on the bag to release......... let's just say...... wasn't gas. H ...

Hi everyone, I had my surgery on 10/30/24, removing 10 inches of my ileum due to a stricture from radiation for ovarian cancer. I had experienced over 2 dozen complete small bowel obstructions over 15 months and it was getting steadily worse. The stricture diameter was only the size of a pencil at the time of surgery. I am just now learning how to put on a new wafer and 2 piece system. I n ...

Prepping for my colonoscopy tomorrow first time through my stoma really not a good situation trying to get through the next 24 hours yikes

In case many didn't know, like in the case of a belly fold, it's possible to weaken the wafer, even a convex, horizontally some so it fits better and allows one to bend over or sit some without the wafer detaching and causing a leak. A pencil or a pen can assist with bending it over.

A ring may not hold as well as paste, but usually those with belly folds need more filler anyway, just be min ...

MY MOTHER USED TO TELL ME “Don’t get your hopes up.” She wasn’t trying to be mean or overly pessimistic. She just didn’t want me to suffer disappointment. So I grew up without overly confident aspirations. She didn’t fully realize it, but she was teaching me what is known as the Non-Reciprocal Law of Expectations: Negative expectations yield negative results / Positive expecta ...

DORMITORY.

This is a room with several beds
where sleepy people lay their heads,
but often are disturbed by some
whose waking time is not yet done.

A dormitory is a place
where people have to share a space
so, trying to get privacy
becomes a flight of fantasy.

In boarding schools and prisons where
sometimes there will be little care
there is a regular routine
where warders sometimes inte ...

I'm not sure what category to put this post under, but I'm a bit of a wreck. I was putting one foot in front of the other with my urostomy and colostomy and beginning to come to terms with all that. Then I learned that I still have cancer and have begun chemotherapy and immunotherapy to treat that. Third time is a charm? I pray!

To make things even MORE fun, I have developed a fistula betwee ...

in a few months, ill be going in for a colostomy reversal. Will it be as bad as the initial colostomy surgery? Will i be able to poop normal again after surgery? What potential roadblocks will i face after a reversal? Will it ever be normal?
Thanks,

Andy

I am new to having an ostomy and I'm looking for a Ostomy wrap with a pouch for the plastic drain. I use a Hollister 8331 one piece drainable. The bag is 12 inches long and I'd like a wrap that gives light support and also keeps the plastic from the drain away from my body.

I tried a Siil belt belt but the barrier wouldn't stay in the belt, that's why I'm looking for a wrap.

For a good part of my long life I have frequently busted into song when the lyrics fit the occasion. It somewhat annoys my son-in-law and he will mimic Shrek and he will say….STOP SINGING ! This always creates family laughter and of course it cannot stop a lifelong habit. As a side note…he still loves me….

Well, as we have frequently heard…Karma is a bitch….

So, I was on the p ...

Get your fiber! Ya ya whatever…..yes this was my bad (as In attitude). I believe this affliction (bad attitude) happened to me after having surgeries and extended hospital stays. One for a drainage tube, one for an ileostomy, a heart attack, followed by stents placement. Each stay resulted in talking heads directing me to get many prescriptions filled….one word for all these meds an ...

Which is lack of blood flow to the intestines. I was just. Diagnosed rare syndrome .I think it's a result of Chrohns .

DORMICE.

Hazel dormice are hard to spot
because they hide away a lot
and usually come out at night,
which means they’re hidden from our sight.

Also, there are but a few around
so they won’t easily be found,
but if you go to south UK
quite often it will be okay.

They’re round about three inches long
but with their tails, they're twice as long,
and they weigh in at roughly
a tiny f ...

IT DOESN’T HELP to be too sure of something. Closer inspection may reveal a flaw, or circumstances may change, or maybe it’s not what you thought it was. Mistakes happen, whether you’re willing to admit it or not. There are always going to be outside factors, conditions not anticipated, malfunctions waiting to occur at the least opportune time. What appear to be facts, as we know ful ...

These are the Horoscopes for the week of November 18, 2024

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Hello: I just had my home health nurse order some closed-end bags for me and my colostomy (finally! Can't use drainable anymore) and there was a yellow slip in the box that said, "Please note that this product is being discontinued. Due to global supply chain and sourcing challenges, your current ostomy pouch is no longer available." Now what do I do? The Hollister wafer is the only one that d ...

Let's try something different. While I was in ICU for 4 days, and that was a month shy of 3 years ago, I had hallucinations.

Did any of you out there experience this also?

I still remember that my surgeon told me (hallucination) that there are forces out there who did not want old people saved. There were, however, people out in the world who would go through trials in order for a person ...

Have had an ileo. due to Crohn’s since 1992. Just wanna chill & enjoy life. I love a good cocktail, jazz, appreciate a classy demeanor. I’m 54. Married for 31 years, so a female or gay male friend would be lovely.

Hi all. I am a 38 year old college student with Spina Bifida. I am paralyzed from the waist down and have a colostomy bag. I am a new ostomate looking for others my age with experience with an ostomy to learn from and make friends.

What is it like when you get home after surgery?

One thing I have struggled with since my ostomy, is having to go to the chiropractor, or a massage therapist. Lying flat on the chiropractor's table is extremely uncomfortable on my ostomy, and having any pressure put on me has made it even worse. I've feared leaks, or even damage to my ostomy, although neither has happened. I simply haven't gone for a massage since my ostomy, and I've avoi ...

Hello, my stoma is 2 months and still a battle to regulate including 2 hospitalisations for dehydration then malnutrition. It was calmer then suddenly peaked again - 2 days of 1.5plus output and about 400 ml urine only. The only new thing in the last couple days I can think of is I’ve been out and about in the car etc. Could activity trigger high output?