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     Is there a special ostomy bag to wear under bathing suits?  I read where you just returned from a cruise and am guessing you wore a bathing suit.  I intend to hit the beach this summer!

In a one piece bathing suit, try getting one with a splash of colour or a pattern over your ostomy site area. That will disguise any slight bulges :) I've worn a one piece suit all my life and no one has ever been able to tell I have a bag.

tankini!!! no one will notice, thats what i wear, i just use a safety pin, on the non bag side, to pin them together so that when i go down teh water slides i dont flash everyone!
you dont need a special suit, just tuck the bag up under the bottom of the suit. if that makes sense. or if you are worried about it falling down, you can tape the pouch up also, but thats kind of annoying unless you are at home, or you can wear a belly band under the suit too. I did that at the water park, i dont really know why i never had before, lol.
i think i still have your email if i do i will email you a pic of the suit i wear and you can see if you can see it or not! also i posted abotu those clothes from old navy, you could wear them as a bathing suit bottom and it comes up high enough that you could wear a bikini top

Hi Christine,

Then there is this book called Saving Our Bones that says that all these marketed bone drugs actually stop the natural regeneration of bone cells, densens what we currently have, then after 10 years we have OLD brittle bone that is dense, rather than less dense but pliable newly regenerated bone that is less likely to break if we fall.

So how the heck are we supposed to make a decision. Since my gut surgery in 2006 that upon review was not needed, done wrong, ended up with all guts scarred in and am lucky to be alive as an ileostomate, I say if something isn't killing me, then I don't deal with it. I have this thyroid goiter that I plan to just keep unless it shuts off my airway.

Rosemary