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Hey there.. hopefully by now you're fine. No sesame seeds dont' digest but probably aren't big enough to cause a blockage.. i avoid all nuts and seeds just to be on the safe side.
Hope all ok Sarah

The sesame seeds are so small they should just shoot out - I try to avoid them but every once in awhile some will sneak in somehow. I tried almonds the other day with no problem, I love almonds. I also had pickles the other day - the mini dill pickles were no problem and I never saw anything in my pouch. Then I had some bread and butter pickle chips and wooo those seeds came through just like they went in LOL!

Good. My stoma has shot out aspirin shells which are actually much larger than the sesame seeds. The aspirin dissolves and the shells remain to be passed out through the stoma.

Rosemary

I know. I was like what on earth pill did I take where the shell of it is being pushed out of my stoma. At first I thought it was my vitamin D pills which dissolve in water immediately.

THEN one of the aspirin shells actually still had the capital letter B identifiable on it. THEN it dawned on me it was the Bufferin aspirin I had taken the night before. I'm like what the heck, these dissolve in water, they are not enteric coated, just a think coating on them. So I dropped one in warm water figuring stomach acid SHOULD be stronger than that. In the warm water the aspirin inside powder dissolved and the shell did not.

THIS leads me to question, do I have weak stomach acid or what is going on? I know I get a burn around my stoma if I do not use paste and cut the wafer hole close so I have normal digestive juices. I don't know what is up with that Bufferin. So, I bought children's chewables and will just take the adult dose next time I have a head ache. Rosemary

I believe it was my 2nd admission to the hospital and they had to go in and let my stoma loose a bit - 36 pills came out the next morning, WHOLE! They just popped out of my stoma and were floating in my bag - scared the bejeezus out of me. I pushed the button so fast on my bed to call my nurse. It was a combination of potassium and magnesium pills. Over the course of the day 36 freaking pills - INSANE! They still had the little numbers on them like they never made the trip through my intestine - they had been in there for 5 days!!