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Posted 1/3/2012 2:11 AM (GMT 0)
     Not sure if this is a bit of a blockage or not.  I had a big dinner and thought I chewed thoroughly but tonight my stoma is swollen and sore.  I do have an output.  I am drinking a LOT of water.  Any advice?
Posted 1/3/2012 2:17 AM (GMT 0)
Are you saying you DO have output? If so it's possibly a partial obstruction...have you eaten anything sketchy lately? Try drinking tea or coffee or hot chocolate or something warm.
Posted 1/3/2012 3:09 AM (GMT 0)
     Hi Stephanie.  Yes, I do have output but it is black in color.  I ate chuck roast for dinner but I pressure cooker it and it is very tender.  I also ate parsley potatoes and snap peas.  Had some frozen yogurt for dessert.  What do you mean sketchy?  LOL!  Still having output..it is thick.
Posted 1/3/2012 3:58 AM (GMT 0)
Hi Christine- it might be a partial blockage. Try drinking grape juice and walk around the block. For nt husband, when he had a partial blockage he walked and moved around and that moved everything along.
Posted 1/3/2012 11:52 AM (GMT 0)
How are you doing now? I think that if the output is thick it's not a full blockage. You could also try some stretches -- knee to chest etc and a bath.

If your stoma is really swollen, you might want to cut your wafer a little bigger.

This card is useful http://www.ostomy.org/ostomy_info/pubs/blockage_card.pdf

Hope you are doing better now.
Posted 1/3/2012 6:42 PM (GMT 0)
How are you today? I've had a lot of partial blockages lately, but they typically work out (no need for medical intervention). I drink a big glass of warm water or a couple mugs of tea, then walk, and sometimes end up having to massage the area right above my stoma to get things moving. Once it gets going, it is typically ok. Hope you are well!
Posted 1/3/2012 7:19 PM (GMT 0)
I'm the same as run4pancakes. When I have a blockage I drink tomato juice as it acts like a drain cleaner for me and massage the area and try to push it along, always know where it is as have a stricture and thats when mine gets stuck. I also am sick constantly every 20-30 mins and so keep drinking loads of fluids as well even if they don't stay down long. Then once blockage gone I drink glass of squash every 30 mins to rehydrate. This has allowed me to deal with 4 blockages at home without needing to go to hospital, where to be honest they do nothing to help. They wouldn't let me drink to help push it along and just basically stuck me in a corner with no fluid support for 6 hours and then panicked when my kidney function fell through the floor cause after 12 hours of being sick and no fluids in for 6 hours so now I try to sort it on my own as know my own body better and have plenty of pain meds and anti sickness meds for afterwards. Does wipe me out for about 4 days afterwards though and can barely walk as stomach muscles are so sore but better than being in hospital.

How are you feeling now, any better? Are things back to normal yet?
Posted 1/3/2012 8:47 PM (GMT 0)
     Thank you all soooo much for your rapid responces.  I really don't know what I would have done the past few years without the support of people in here and on the UC forum.

     The blockage is gone yeah !  I drank hot tea and some cranberry juice last night. I didn't get to sleep till 3am because of the discomfort, but I walked around quite a bit.  This morning, after my coffee, juice and half an English muffin, things started to move quite rapidly out the stoma tongue .  I believe the peas were the culprit.  There were a lot of pea skins in the bag.  Tonight...NO peas for me!

     Thank you all again!

Posted 1/3/2012 10:30 PM (GMT 0)
Yay! Glad you are better. I haven't eaten any peas or beans at all with this little loop stoma. It seems to get clogged over the smallest things.
Posted 1/4/2012 3:28 AM (GMT 0)
WHEW! Happens to all of us. Glad you are better Christine. That is how I busted up my mashed potato blockage. LOTS of hot tea and walk walk walk! Then it all came out at once. Thank God! Rosemary
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