Tucking your shirt in??

This may seem like an odd question but I am new!

How do you all wear your ostomy bags under your clothes? Do you tuck the pouch into your pants, let it hang out?

The reason I ask is because I have my sisters wedding coming up and I need to wear a suit. So I will have to tuck my shirt in and wear a tight belt and tight fitting shirt. Ever since my surgery and new ostomy I have pretty much worn nothing but loose fitting/ baggy shirts and usually wear my pajama pants with elastic waist so the waste band doesn't ride up my hips and knock my bag loose.

I wear jeans when I need to go into work but always wear baggy shirts and let my pouch hang out. I tried tucking my pouch into my pants once and it only resulted in a leak.

Any help or suggestions would be great!!

Call up your Ostomy supply manufacture, explain the situation and ask them for samples to try of smaller ostomy bags, they are more discrete but you'll have to empty the smaller bags more often.

A lot depends on your stoma location and your body type. Mine is pretty high (navel height) and therefore I wear my shirts out, typically polo types or colored tees for casual. However like you I do have to get dressed up sometimes and tuck a dress shirt in, so what I do is wear a pair of dress pants with an expandable waist. These are available but a bit hard to find in the style you might want. I tuck the dress shirt in with a bit of sag and wear a belt that is loose. The pants are sized to basically stay up by themselves, the belt is decoration. The bag is some below and some above the waist line so I at times and if needed casually stretch the waist a bit to allow stool to fill below the waist line.

A small pouch as someone else suggested would work also but that has its own issues with filling up quickly and ballooning out the shirt.

My stoma location was such that the stoma itself was above my waistband but most of the bag was below -- so I tucked my bag into my underwear/pants. What really helped me was wearing a wrap or higher waisted underwear that covered the entire bag (both above and below the pants waistband) -- this sort of evenly compresses the bag so that output can flow to the bottom and get past the pants waistband. Sort of hard to describe but if you try it you'll understand!

In any case I think you definitely need a different appliance set up, occasionally knocking against your jeans should not cause leaks.

interesting, because my stoma marking is above my pants waistline- so I too, would have the stoma above the pants, but the bag below. The WOCN nurse I met with said that clothing shouldn't prevent flow into the bag, but I have my doubts! I've never been one for tight clothes anyway, but I guess it'll be a trial & error thing, see what works best. Tucking it in, leaving it out, etc. I already ordered Ostomy Secrets underwear! And I have an Amazon wishlist going with some tubetops to use to help smooth things out, like you, Pluot.

I'm sorry. I know this comment is weird and sorta off topic. I am new to all this, going to be having surgery sometime in the next several months, and am trying to learn a lot about ostomies and how things work, etc. It helps ease some of my anxiety. I must tell you, I am actually crying tears of joy reading this set of posts. I mean, first of all, never in a million years did I think I would be reading this in the first place, and more importantly, I'd never have guessed that a group of people so caring, so open, so thoughtful and kind, could have existed. And to have a whole discussion on tucking in your shirt? I feel so blessed to have found this site, to know that all the little details are talked about to make life just that much easier. I don't know if I am explaining myself well at all. It's conversations like the one above that give me hope, that make me feel like I will get thru this and I will not be alone. So thank you all.

Still can't believe I am crying while reading about how to tuck in a shirt!! LOL!!

Hope I'm not too annoying...you will be seeing a lot more of me in the future (if i don't scare you away)