Posted 7/30/2010 6:16 PM (GMT 0)
I have been using the Hollister one piece bag with the filter. I put a new bag on the day before yesterday. Last night we went to the Borgata casino. I checked my bag at 7:30 pm....had very little waste in it, so thought I was good to go for a few hours. We went to the Comedy Club at 8:30. The show was an hour and a half. During that time, I felt my stoma erupting like Vesuvius but still thought I was ok. Immediately after the show, 10 pm, I went to the ladies room. I was shocked to see my bag had split at all the seams and poop was oozing out all over the place...ugh! I cleaned up the best I could, stuffed toilet paper in the bag and rushed out to tell my husband we had to git pronto. I had a spare bag in the glove compartment of our van but no spare clothes. Thank GOD I was wearing black slacks! The bag still wasn't full. My husband thinks maybe the filter got clogged and it burst. This is scary.
I also have irritation around the stoma which started last week. I am using the adapt powder and paste. Do you put the powder on first and then the paste? What am I doing wrong? Two of my stitches also popped and is still oozing...going on the second week. My family doctor looked at it as did two nurses and they all said to just put an antibiotic ointment on it with a bandaid which I have been doing. I phoned my surgeon's office and his assistant told me to do the same thing but I still don't like the looks of it...it is puffed up...but no red streaks or anything. It hurts, but then it is in a bad spot, in the mid lower section of my stomach right above the pelvic area.