hollister convex seal

I have been using the Hollister Adapt convex barrer rings now for about 5 years. I take off the paper and stick it on the wafer and then put it on. Crease the paper so that the clear plastic sticks up to pull it off.

Usually change at 7 days. Have been working very well.

crank
Glad to hear you have good results with the Hollister Convex seal. I haven't gone more than 5 days so far but might this time. Tomorrow is 5 days and it feels good today. What pouch do you use? Is your stoma recessed?

Brian
How do you shave? Razor? I use an electric mustache/beard trimmer. Does not scrape your skin off. I think the skin under a wafer is pretty tender. When I used the Eakin seal my trimmer just gummed up with the seal. Now with the Hollister convex it comes off so clean that the trimmer does not gum up. Trimmer works great.

Dan

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Dan,

I use the Hollister 8754 Skin barrier with the floating flange. The Adapt 79530 ring which I put on the barrier first.
The pouches are the 3904 and are clear. I wanted to try the New Image Barrier and the Pouches with a cloth like material on the back of them. but since I had to have a Colostomy just before Christmas last year and trouble most of this year also they suggested I wait to try another appliance.
Had abscesses before the surgery and they did not empty and later came to life in my legs. Another operation in June. Just finished up with home nursing in September and am doing a lot better.

As for shaving the skin area I started with an electric razor per instructions at the hospital. Now I only use Surgical Razors. They work very well.

I learned more from the Urostomy2 group than all of the WOC people put together.

crank

Well I am not going to change today after 5 days. Stoma feels good and I want to see how long it will last. See if I can match crank's 7 days. Besides that, I ripped the fingerprint and all the flesh off my right pinky finger right down to the bone. Can't get it wet until tomorrow. Eleven stitches.

crank
Usually a convex seal is used because of a recessed stoma. Why do you use one?

Dan

Changed this morning after seven days! No leaks! I could have gone longer. I have never gone longer than five days before.

%$#%@%% I don't remember if I dried the Friars &%$&*

crank, I use a hair dryer to dry the area.....as long as I remember to

I had a call from Oscar at Hollister asking about the samples they sent. I told him that they should make a flat wafer out of the same material as the convex. Any opinions? Oscar watches this site.

Will the lady that is on the floor laughing please get up.

Dan

Well, I answered my own question.....no, I did not dry the Friars on the last change. Went to bed about 11:30 and had a blowout at midnight. Only 2 1/2 days. My fault, not the seal. I was in the bathroom until after 2 AM waiting for things to stop so I could put on a fresh pouch. As crank said dry, dry, dry the skin. I did last night for sure.


Dan

I am at wits end. Another blowout this morning while eating breakfast. No idea why. I really thougt the Hollister convex seal was the answer to my totally retracted stoma. It worked for seven days and now I get two! I am not giving up yet though. My other option is surgery to reverse the retraction. Had it done June of 2009. It was good until the stitches dissolved and it was gone again. Any suggestions?

Dan

As an update, still having great luck with my urostomy and the Holister Convex 2 piece. The last one lasted a full week, just wanted to see if it would make it that far, and it still wasn't leaking. Have now been in our hot tub without causing it to leak, hadn't been in it for 2 years because of all my former catheter time. Very pleased with the product, no trouble getting consistent 5-6 days use without any problems.

David in SC

Cold water works better than hot water for getting bits of Eakin seals off of the tub floor - but it is still a hassle.

Dan, have you considered using a convex wafer? That is what I have been using and it seems to work really well. It worked better than any seal that I tried. I have been using tincture of benzoin instead of Friars Balsam, mostly because my insurance will pay for it. They are very similar.

Anyway, it might be worth a try to get samples of convex wafers before you try surgery. They come in shallow and deep and they have 1-piece and 2 -piece appliances.

Best of luck to you.

I have had problem after problem with leaking. I just read this whole thread and am curious to try this Hollister seal. I have my first sample from Hollister coming any day now! I like the Convatec beige bags (the clear ones makes me VERY self conscious) but the leaking was a huge issue. The Eakin Seals seem to help the wear time but they get all bunchy like under my wafer and it's a little uncomfortable. polishdan - thank you SO much for sharing and updating. I absolutely love this site and think I might go crazy without it.

I got stupid over the weekend, I decided to use one of the sample I had gotten from coloplast, but it was not convex. I thought it might be ok because my stoma sticks out sometimes about an inch or so. So I thought it might be ok. so 15 minutes before I had to leave for work Monday morning I could barely see my stoma, it was retracted so much. I knew it would not last long if my stoma was going down under my wafer it would have to cause a leak so I knew I could not go to work with that one on, I had to change it. Won't do that again.

Changed yesterday after four days. Came off clean, no leaks. However, the Hollister convex seal had swelled up so much it almost covered my entire stoma and came up through the wafer opening. There was very little space for sewage to get through. This is not good. The opening in the seal is 13/16". My stoma is about 7/8" when it is out. I have been cutting the wafer to 1". This time I did not cut the wafer. I left it at 3/4". Hope this works better.

Dan

Yes, 3/4" is small but my stoma rarely sticks out. When I cut the wafer 1" the seal swells up and fills the opening in the wafer so it is hard for the sewage to get out. I thought possibly by using the 3/4" wafer the swelling might be reduced. Trial and error while I don't have to be anywhere but home.

Dan