Good luck dolly :) Hope you feel much much better soooon! x x x x...
Hey Blonde! I'm 19, had an ileostomy for nearly a year now. I had a bf at the time of my surgery and he didn't seem to mind, like was said earlier he was more glad I was alive! :) We're split now but...
I used to be on the pill and had the same problem, so I got Implanon which is like a little hormone stick implanted in your arm. It gives excellent contraception for 3 years.. apparently it's more...
I got halfway through my lates delivery of bags on thursday and suddenly the flanges on all the bags refused to stick! (I use a one-piece drainable coloplast) It got to Friday afternoon and I'd got...
I used to work in a hotel. We would be made to take washing up liquid into the rooms and wash them in the bathroom sink because the kitchen was too busy to wash them. Used clean tea towels and clean...
Vicky, Thanks for the advice, if its get bad inside I'll check that out. I've been tested for B12 and the levels are normal, is just an anomaly. Though I just heard about this stuff called Bio Oil...
Hi everyone, I used to have Oral Crohn's until it spread into the normal kind. I had an ostomy and now it's come back in my mouth, with really sore dry patches at the corners of my mouth. I've tried...
I had a similar thing yesterday, mine decided to output a load of lovely yellow gunge all over the clean bag i had half applied so i had to grab another, which turned out to have a hole in.. Changing...
Hi, thanks for the suggestions. I went to the doctor today and he said basically that I was being paranoid, but if it got worse to go back and he'd refer me to a neuro surgeon. he also did my blood...
sorry but i think this is gonna end up a bit of a rant but i don't know what to do with myself. i was on antidepressants and seeing a counsellor but stopped a few weeks ago as it wasn't helping me at...
Aw I'm glad she's a bit better, remeber guys (and especialy Cece!) - Never give up, never surrender!! Mary x x x...
Hi They said that to me, because unless you chew them really thoroughly they can cause blockages as they don't break down at all.. Once I was changing my pouch and some that I'd eaten earlier started...
Hey guys I can't stop picking at the edge of the flange on my bag (I use a coloplast one-piece) it's so irritating! It's like, it catches on fibres and then gets crunchy and I can't stop myself...
I have the Implanon implant and it works wonders for me....
Um to be honest I'm not sure LOL I went and asked for one and she said she'd order me a couple. They should arrive tomorrow so I'll post and say.. but I think they're by the Coloplast people. x x x...
I went to my stoma nurse and she recommended wearing a stoma belt.. I ordered one and am waiting for it to arrive! Excited!! ^.^ x x x...
Hey Nash! I'm going through exactly the same symptoms as you, with anti-depressants and therapy not helping much.. I'm just trying to take it one day at a time and get out of the house as much as...
I spray on adhesive remover and then use baby wipes, and dry it off with these cloth-ish wipes from Coloplast. Works like a charm!...
I'm the same as Shaz - once piece coloplasts are excellent and velcro's magnifique! :)...
Shy, Thanks for the advice, I did go to see my doctor today and he told me to double my meds and to try not to have any caffeine or food late at night.. Hope it will work, as I didn't want to get out...
:) he sounds great! Try empire line tops and leggings - loose and the top is cut to flatter your shape even with a stoma. x x x...
Eww indeed :S My advice is to go and enjoy yourself, just take a large handbag with loads of supplies in! Plus you can get a card from your stoma nurse or GP which explains about the stoma, if you...
Hey Crohnie9, I am exactly the same with veins and have been since like, birth. In my last hospital visit they tried my hands arms feet and legs before then got a line in my neck.. and that was just...
Awesome!! :D I'm so happy for you!...
Karen, Thanks for the sympathy :/ it's just so frustrating! I tried to talk to my mum about it but she can just sleep like *that* so she has no idea.. I keep getting so angry with myself for being so...
Hey.. I'm fairly new here.. I keep having really bad problems with my sleeping habits.. I'm on Paroxetine and seeing a counsellor (every month cause she's so booked up) but I've started having days...
Heh heh! At least you know you're never alone with a stoma... :P...
Congrats, even though we haven't spoken, I've seen that you're good with advice! :)...
Hey My liver tests were abnormal when I was on 6MP, just a side effect I think. :)...
(Copied from MMNAVY's earlier post in a similar message) Minimus (just google that), which has travel sized stuff and what I found on there is this.... Oust® Mini Air Sanitizer Lysol® Disinfectant...
Hey! I used to have the same problem as you when I had Crohns, while I was at school. Really embarrassing, having everyone tease me about my paranoia about smelling.. I ended up taking Febreze (an...
Heh, I have to say the like, gurgling it makes can be kinda comforting.. like I have insomnia, and lying and hear it occasionally do something can be kinda soothing.. maybe that's just me though! :)...
Sweetie, he should be begging for YOUR friendship, not the other way round! Trust me, if he wants "nothing from you" it's only his loss, not yours! And, you should never do something you're not at...
I was foolish enough to eat stir-fried vegetables and seeded bread today.. and now my stoma is kinda tickling! Not in a bad way, just... funny, as BM pass through it! Do any of you guys get that?...
I keep having the thing where my top rides up and/or my jeans ride down as I walk and the (usually inflated) top of the bag sorta peeks out.. that's embarrassing! I usually wear a vest top underneath...
Thanks guys! I'm gonna phone up my nurse and try and blag a free one :P but my mum has offered to pay for it.. so yay! :) x x x...
I've been trawling the internet and found a lot of stuff about supportive ostomy belts.. do any of you use them, and which is the best make? They look like saving me a lot of hassle, but if I buy one...
Hey I had Crohn's for about a year before my Ileostomy and my main sympton was bleeding every time I went to the toilet, no other times though. Wasn't painful but I became anaemic very quickly, had a...
Hi, nipping over from the Ostomy forum.. I had Crohn's and tried pretty much everything and none of it worked.. pentasa, pred, azathioprine, remicade (which worked the first time but then not again),...
Hey hun, think about this: with all this stem cell research, in about ten or twenty years they'll be growing us new colons! Well, I know I certainly hope so..!...
I think the biggest mistake I've made yet is wearing white jeans and not paying attention properly (small children were trying to come in the bathroom which doesn't lock properly, and I was trying to...
They gave me an epidural, morphine pump and paracetamol-type drugs for the first few days, then took the epidural out followed by taking me off the morphine. I took paracetaml and tramadol for a few...
Thanks for the reassurance guys, I'd just heard that ostomies made carrying children difficult. Glad to know when the time comes I'll be ok! :)...
Physically, can you have children if you have a stoma? I've heard a lot of different opinions on this.....
Aww, good luck Slice! I'm not sure if I have a rectum or not any more, I didn't think to ask and I haven't really looked :S Not something I want to explore really. :P But yeah, sure you'll be fine,...
Hey :) I've had a fair few colonoscopies, and if she is scared you can ask for sedatives which make the whole thing go fast with no memory. And bowel prep is always going to be uncomfortable but...
Hey :) I wear a one-piece drainable bag, so I change mine every three days, all of it and clean the skin and spout. The only slight complication I had was that I couldn't sleep because I kept...
Oh and you're not allowed a house in America cause I can't come!! :P...
Hey. Just fond this site and have been replying to a lot of threads.. when I had my ostomy done I went very depressed and still get times when I'll just burst into tears, but I think it's better to...
I've been spotting a bit, never enough to be a full on thing, but enough for me to get irritated! I also had the lovely cystitis and thrush just post-op due to a catheter.. nice.. :P...