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Posted 8/18/2012 7:38 PM (GMT 0)
I have to laugh at some of my subject titles, but I just can't think of a better way to word them, LOL.  Anyway, I find that when I eat french fies or tater tots my output is extremely thick.  Almost to the point of scaring me that it could cause a blockage if I didn't drink A LOT of fluids to get it out.  This can also be the case with applesauce.  I know we are all different, but does anyone else have this too? 

Also, with all of this talk of stenosing and such I am starting to get a little concerned.  today was appliance-changing day, and I had breakfast before I showered, which I usually don't do, but I didn't have a choice today.  I popped a few marshmallows and hopped in the shower.   Well, mostly my stoma behaved, but at one point projectile output was squirting out and creating a mess.  This happened to me a couple of other times when I had liquid output (which I did this time due to drinking my juice this morning).  Is this normal??  Again, it doesn't happen all the time, and the only time my stoma seems to act weird is first thing in the morning, but that could also be because my system is not as hydrated. 

 

Posted 8/18/2012 7:47 PM (GMT 0)
I remember that the marshmellow trick didn't always work :-)
Basically, when we eat, like you ate beakfast, it stimulates digestion so that when you got in the shower, your stoma was doing what it is supposed to do. Totally normal.
Posted 8/18/2012 9:37 PM (GMT 0)
potatoes and applesauce can both thicken your output. I would continue drinking a lot of water when eating either one. I never saw that marshmallows made a lot of difference. To the point, I wanted to ask, am I supposed to eat them, or plug my stoma with them, when changing my appliance. <G>
Posted 8/18/2012 9:50 PM (GMT 0)
Ha ha ha ha, I never thought of plugging my stoma with a marshmellow! People eat them when they wake up, about 15 minutes before they get in the shower. It slows the output, so that most of the time you can shower and get a new bag on without stoma activity messing things up.
Posted 8/18/2012 10:01 PM (GMT 0)
Usually the marshmallows do the trick. LOL about plugging your stoma! What had me most worried was not the output, per se, but the fact that it was projectile. I just want to make sure that is okay because it comes out so forcefully.
Posted 8/18/2012 10:58 PM (GMT 0)
I love your post title. It has been more than seven hours since breakfast. It does not sound like you are having any additional problems, so I wouldn't worry. I had it happen once after having a Cherry Icee. My output was like a firehose of neon red liquid! Any chance it could be related to the full meal plus three marshmallows?
Posted 8/19/2012 12:04 AM (GMT 0)
I'm cracking up at the thought of plugging the stoma with a marshmallow! tongue
Posted 8/19/2012 3:03 AM (GMT 0)
well guys, if you can't laugh at THAT thought, you have REALLY lost your sense of humor! And it seems to me that you truly need a sense of humor to get thru most of this :) what a great laugh today!
Posted 8/19/2012 4:19 AM (GMT 0)
When i read your title i thought, "well why on earth are they eating cement!" I knew you weren't of course, but i got this mental picture of someone beside a wheelbarrow full of cement dipping fries in it like ketchup :D
Anyway, fries do that to me too. and applesauce triples in volume. I could eat a tablespoon of applesauce and have my bag fill up 3 times!
I find that if i don't drink enough water nothing comes out, and when it does it's super thick, regardless of what i eat. Like last week i was at school all day, and not drinking enough, so i didn't have any output for 4 hours or so. Then when i would get home and eat and drink it would come out. i wasn't having any pain so i wasn't worried. I then put it together that it was the not drinking enough. So i think that's very important in making sure our output comes out like it's supposed to!
As for the projectile stuff, mine has done that in the past too! One time i was sitting, had my bag on, and could feel it shooting out! i could see my bag moving, lol.
Posted 8/19/2012 4:57 AM (GMT 0)
When my old stoma was new it could put out very thick poo as you are describing. I could actually see the stoma pushing it out and the bag would fill with potato or whatever I had eaten. THEN as the years went by, I noticed I had to walk after eating and start drinking grape juice and so on. THEN the food blockages. I think my old stoma was stenosing gradually only I did not know it.

Once on a trip I had bad diarrhea so I ate some pretzels, applesauce, and took immodium. NO out put for many hours. THEN I started drinking hot tea and walking the length of a european train. THEN All of a sudden the bag filled with this poo that was thick enough to come out of an intact person. I bet I was getting that stenosis LONG before I realized it.

This new revised stoma that has assumed the weird shape and the output part has shrunk to the size of a dime and it does not peristalse in and out of me, I have to actually drive what little solid food I eat through with tons of grape juice and hot drinks and walking, then it will come out. IDK. I don't think any revision I get will bring back those good old days of being able to pump out thick output like the first stoma did. The docs around here seem to think this new one won't do that because it is anchored below it with all these adhered bowel loops. I think it is the half of the stoma that collapsed and is splayed out on my skin so that the active half the size of a dime cannot really peristalse in and out normally. It just sort of waves back and forth. I am like WTH!

Enjoy those good foods. I will live vicariously. R
Posted 8/19/2012 8:04 AM (GMT 0)
BTW projectile stoma is normal.
Posted 8/19/2012 11:29 AM (GMT 0)
LOL, Thanks everyone! Glad to read it's normal, and thanks for the laughs!
Posted 8/19/2012 12:46 PM (GMT 0)

Subzeromambo said...
I had it happen once after having a Cherry Icee. My output was like a firehose of neon red liquid!


ROFL!! turn
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