I have had a very odd leak/failure, help or advice please as I am worried about this!

Hello All,

 I hope everyone is OK.  I have had a leak and appliance failure that was very odd.  It was day 3 in the evening and I usually change every 4 days - so it was "close" to my changing the appliance.  I went to bed, and I noticed that I had some wet spot - water/clear on my PJ's and then my underwear - and then I traced to the underside of my flange and sure-seal (I always wear one).  I knew that I had to empty a few more times than normal that day - and it was a watery stool, but it had started to bulk up just before I went to bed.  When I removed my appliance and went to throw out the bag and the flange - the barrier ring "seemed" ok - but I was having a thick consistency movement/output along with a watery/foamy flow from my stoma.  How could it be both thick and watery as if two separate output types were happeneing at the same time.  During the change, I had to keep my stoma padded with paper towels to catch the clearish liquid - while it seemed that I was having diffiuculty - or at least slowly passing a very thick consistency.

Sorry to be graphic - but that type of leak would be very un-controllable in an outside/non home setting.  So far so good as I have had 1 day since that leak and everything is holding.

Has anybody else experienced this?  I didn't eat anything out of the ordinary, and it is not a "bug" as I feel fine.  Should I call my GI?  or nurse?  or just put this one up to an anomally?

Any help would be appreciated,

love to all,

bob 

Bob~do you wear a one piece or two piece appliance? If it is two, could the pouch have become seperated? I guess that could even happen with a one piece two if it was pulled away...

Yes, sometimes you can have a 'foam' type output with regular output....sometimes, when I eat really processed 'junk' food, I get that foam type of output.

It sounds like you have things under control don't worry too much about those weird things that can happen...it's learning on a HUGE curve, isn't it?!

I recently underwent colon surgery that removed most of my colon due to tumors that were blocking my intestines. I saw the scans but have major questions about whether or not the surgery was a life threatning as the surgeons implied an if I didn';t undergo this surgery I would have had more serious problems in the future or died. The first surgery to remove the tumors was deamed a success but an infection isued as a result of the surgery I 'm wondering if they who did the surgery is rponsible for the infection that caused me now to have to wear a bag on the outside of my body a bag that counld potentially leak on my nice clothes in public . I'm a businessman who must wear suits ,ad worry about the embarrassment of this happening at the most inopportune times, in a public or a business setting .The Stoma is exposed and can be seen through the transparent bag the colon bag Ostomy using the major brand  by Hollister and some other kind with a different design ,some convexed others flat one with a velcrove lower strap the other with a better sticky sidepannel thatn the other brand, this one with convexity has a beltthat goes along with it with both of the models that I;m using now. I use the paste and the dressing to keep it clean but none of them are water proof enough to be able to bath of shoer with with out becoming loose and eventually leaking is there a design out there that will withstand a bath or a shower that will stay in place before and after a bath or shower that is available for my particular treatment. I love to stay fresh and clean but if I take a shower every morning like I used to before the  operation/surgey I have to put n a new bag  and the area must be completely dry before it will stick to the stoma skin area again. does a bag that's water resistant exist andif it doesn't then where can I get them and why if  they don't exist don't they. If doctors are going to cut you open and srtap a bag on the outside of your body then why doesn't there exist a better secured way or method of securing the bag exist . a leak proof bag in order to avoid the embarrassment of aleakage accident in public, And by the way  all of them that I've used so far are painfully itchy and uncomfortable  especially around the adhesive area, nedd some one who is going through the same thing or have gone through the same thing before to bring me up to speed on the latest technology in colon bags. 8082200868 I'm in Honolulu,Hawaii

Helluva Good Chip Dip with Ruffles last month gave me foamy stuff that made me swear off ever eating that dip again. It was bizarre and I have eaten other dips with no issues at all.