Ladies, how do you wear your Ileo bag?

I'm about 5ft 5in, and I use a bag that is about 7-8 inches long. My stoma is quite low on my abdomen, but it's a perfect length for me. I turn it ever so slightly to the left when I put it on, so that the corner of the velcro closing doesn't pinch into the top of my thigh, and the bag sits exactly over my pubic bone area, not on my leg at all. I like to wear my bag completely inside my underwear (I usually wear high-waisted underwear), and I find this great for keeping everything in place. I did try a different bag a couple of months ago which was much bigger & hung down on my leg & felt so uncomfortable, especially when it started filling up, so maybe it might be worth trying a smaller bag.
I have also seen things saying to wear the bag horizontally, and I've no idea how you're supposed to empty it that way, without doing some gymnastics over the toilet bowl! I just angle mine about an inch to the left, so that the spout is pointing more between my legs when I open it to empty, as opposed to resting on my leg.

I wear my bag angled slightly to the outside of my thigh to keep it from going between my legs. Emptying it is no problem, I just grab the end and aim it over and down...it helps to keep your legs spread as wide as possible. They do make smaller bags, but I found they require emptying WAY too often and there is more splashback when emptying them since the output has a longer trip down to the water!

I keep it tucked into my pants, but not my underwear. Sometimes I will wear a tube top around my midsection to hold it more in place, or a tight-ish tank top sort of thing.

I am much taller than you, and still don't like how the longer bags rub my thigh. I use the Coloplast Sensura Mio "midi" size bags and angle the bag inward a little.

The mio bags have the roll up velcro closure and also have two different attachment points that you can use to make the bag even smaller and keep the corners from poking your leg. I rarely use the higher attachment point, but always tuck the tail up into the little pocket thing and attach it to the velcro "receiver".

I don't like the bag to be right in contact with my skin, so I wear hipster underwear (cotton mostly) and the bag rests between that and my pants. I think ostomy secrets wraps are pretty good, but I have been wearing these a lot:
http://www.myhip-t.com/
They are made from a slightly lighter weight material than the ostomy secrets wraps and provide just the right amount of compression (for me), without crushing my stoma. Depending on what pants I am wearing, I wear the my-hip T either outside or inside my waistband. They work great.

Post Edited (k-del) : 7/29/2015 11:38:46 PM (GMT-6)