Can you wear an eakin seal under a convex wafer?

     I hate Hollister bags, always leaked on me.  I use the new Coloplast ones with the convex seal.  Never had a problem yet.

Right now I'm trying a Convatec convex, and it's fine without paste or a barrier. I thought that was weird.

I just love Hollister. I love that the bags come in skin colored, they don't rustle as much, THEY HAVE A MINI-POUCH (why does no one else carry this???), and they have the non-adhesive option. My skin cannot handle adhesive for more than a day.

Yes, you can put an Eakin Seal under a convex wafer. The combination of the two is the best when you've had problems with leaks.

I have a retracted stoma and have been using the small eakin, 839002, under a flat one piece convatec, not convex, wafer. It seals pretty well. I get 4 or 5 days wear without leaking, but it's pretty tough to clean the eakin off when changing. I'm looking for something better.

Dan

That's what I'm trying now, Allie. Fingers crossed it works!!! How far does Oscar stick out?

Interesting. Zoe never goes below the skin, even when she's pooping, which is why I'm so frustrated right now with the leaking...

PS I have seen a loonie cuz my grandparents used to live in Canada :)

This is a silly reason, Dan, but it's real.

When I used to have diarrhea all the time, I used to call it "The Diarrhea." Like, I'd say to my friends, "I wanted to go out last night, but The Diarrhea foiled my plans, that ******." And since I called him a ******, he was obviously a boy.

I wanted Zoe to be the exact opposite of The Diarrhea, and be my friend instead of my enemy, so I figured to be the opposite, she had to be a girl :)

Silly, but true.

lol @ Stephanie!

Dan- that is a question to ponder.......um.......still pondering........nope, nothing. I got nothin, though i've never met a woman named Oscar before. LOL.

-Allie

It seems that way, but it works the best out of anything I've tried so far. I have no explanation.

Mine is really tight. Like it's right around it.

I use an eakin seal under my convex wafer all the time. I put the eakin on the wafer instead of putting it on my skin and cut the eakin seal down quiet a bit. I went to our new WOCN for the first time last week and she recommend that I cut the eakin seal down as I was using it all and trying to thin it down. She said the darkest part of the wafer is the stickiest of everything I use which nobody has ever told me before. She also said that the paste should be called a filler because it really isn't a paste. I hadn't heard that either. Anyway I'm putting less eakin seal and only using the paste around the hole that goes around "privey" and have stopped putting it all around the bottom of the wafer and NO LEAKS. I've been having a horrible time too with 3 skin ulcers to boot too. Someone on this site recommended Friars Balsm on my ulcers and it took me forever to find it and it burns like the dickens but it is working.....WHOT HOOO

Dan,
I use a convatec #839002 I believe it is a 2 inch. I took my siccors and trim the outside of the seal down and then I pinch around the hole in the seal to make it really thin. Then I place the seal around the hole of the wafer, my wafer is 1" and "privey" is measuring 7/8" these days. I stretch the rest of the seal and thin it down a bunch. I probably only have about 1/2 inch or less seal on the wafer.

Thank you so much for the friars it is really doing a good job. I did finally find in the USA at a place in Union City, CA called HerbsPro. It ran about $35.00 for 4 oz but it is doing such a good job I don't mind the cost. I also used the blow drier at first but have white wall tile by the toilet where I change and I looked over at the wall and I have poo looking spots all over the wall. I quickly cleaned it off which wasn't an easy task because it is so tacky. I knew anyone sitting there after me would certainly think it was poo instead of friars. lol Anyway now I take the the empty wafer package and fan the heck out of it.

Cathy