Yeah I find the hollister ones will swell up through the hole in your wafer,sometimes it will even cover my stoma... I started using genairex ones and they seem to be better...
Yes I found this after each of my ostomy surgeries after a while it goes away once things are healed and normalled out!...
My stoma sometimes has the bottom right "corner" retract a bit until it is flush with the skin. If you watch your stoma for a bit you'll notice it wiggles in and out. It's how it gets the waste to...
I'm kinda thinking I may just put a sprinkle of powder like normal the regular ostomy powder and my eaking and appliance and see what happens can't be any worse than it is now... I figure my dr will...
it sucks! Feeling some better and having some more normal output but still pains right between my shoulder blades......
I don't have any, I do know what it is though used it for my incision when it wouldn't heal. I can try calling my ET nurse and see if she's got any I could use until I see my DR next week, she's...
Ok I don't know what kind of rash I have but I will be glad when Monday comes and I can call my dr for an appointment! Tonight it got so wet and gross under my flange that it slid off... while I was...
So I had a little panic attack Sunday/Yesterday. Had some symptoms of a partial blockage but was wondering if I was just really dehydrated as I still had output and it wasn't really watery, normal...
ok so that makes more sense I was thinking of nappy rash cream and it's pretty greasy. My rash is now kind of peeling and flaky I dont' know if thats good or bad?...
Opal, dont' know why she just seemed to be Opal lol...
I think it all depends on what's going on. I've heard a lot of people say that 5-7 days is usually the goal. I was getting around four to five days and then I got a rash now it's every day or two but...
I thought it was kind of funny... and it was good timing! halo52208 some people think I'm nuts cause I named my stoma but hey she's going to be with me for the rest of my life and she certainly has...
Ok so I'm having a lazy day and I just finished my lunch and I decide it's time to get off my butt and go shower and get dressed. So off I go after chatting with my fiancees grandma to the shower....
basically it's what's in diaper rash cream......
I always thought you couldn't use any kind of cream at all under there? I will have to try that as I know if I have a rash anywhere else that is what I use is diaper rash cream. Next time I change...
I am using an eakin to fill in the dip but I didn't have any convex wafers so that might be my problem there. The salts ones though don't have enough convexity for me. I was wondering if it might...
I always get up around the middle of my sleep to empty once. It usually needs it too, mostly it's from habit. Doesn't matter if I eat late or not still gets full of air at the very least and needs an...
Ok so I had another surgery this summer and I've since finally gotten back to a normal weight and now I have a dip on the lower right "corner" of my stoma area. Been having a really hard time getting...
There shouldn't be any and they shouldn't tear but that doesn't mean they can't. I've had the part that holds the velcro piece on the Hollister ones come completely off when I wiped the end off! If...
If I could take all the aspects that I liked from the different pouches/flanges I've tried and build my own I would!!! I really love the Coloplast pouches so easy to empty and clean and they tuck up...
I've had trouble too. I had my original ostomy operation just a little over two years ago and have had two operations since, one the following summer (was a stoma redo due to band of scar tissue...
I'm two months post op from a volvulous. Recently started having similar pains to those I was having with all my small bowel obstructions. This time though the pain seems to be mostly beside my stoma...
I am kind of wondering if I'm suffocating it with the duoderm myself. Had a huge mess yesterday I laid down to take a nap and when I woke up it had leaked out the bottom of the dressing all over...
I had surgery to untwist my bowel approx 7 weeks ago and my incision opened up and I CANNOT get a good seal on that side of my pouch. The wounds have filled in from the bottom up but will not close...
Well when I changed the other day the rash seems to only be where the tape border was this time with a very small sprinkling of it under where the inner part is. I had a different extra mural nurse...
I will try eliminating the cavillon as the extra mural nurse has been using it under the tape/duoderm to cover my dressing too and it's irritated around the incision site too. I asked her about the...
Ok I need some advice!!! I have developped a rash under my flange and I'm pretty sure it's because it's been so hot and humid where I live right now. It looks like the yeast infection I had under...
I recently had my third surgery due to a volvulous and now have a dressing covering my midline incision that opened up a bit. My question is how do I avoid getting it wet in the shower? I'm getting...
Well my first two ended up being around 3/4" my surgeon told me it was small like a child's lol. I said she was dainty :P I just had surgery again three weeks ago and it started out at 1 3/8" and now...
Thank you Blueheron. I am going to call my ET nurse today and ask her about it. The wound is exuding enough liquid that I'm not able to get a good seal and I am changing pouches every two days at...
Yes I did do that last night when I changed it problem is I find that the ring or strip blows up into the hole of the wafer and disrupts the flow of output from my stoma. It sticks out now but not...
I've had several small bowel obstructions over the last year and I can say they can vary in pain. Mine were due to twisting of the bowel shortly behind the stoma so I guess it depended on how twisted...
I just recently (not quite 2 weeks ago) underwent emergency surgery due to a small bowel obstruction that was caused by what my surgeon thought for months was scar tissue (I had been having repeated...
Well I saw my surgeon last Monday and she is doing a revision of my stoma next Tuesday. She did the finger dilation test and thinks that it is stenosing (spelled that wrong I know) at the skin level....
I had the epidural and I had very little pain with it. When they put it in you feel a bit of pressure but no pain and it's in before you know it and then that's it you kinda forget about it after...
It's a company in Quebec called Argyle Medical here's the link for their website. http://argylemedical.com/ I can't remember the last name of the guy I dealt with but his first name was Rick....
I had some leaking issues before my current issues and I found a product called Dermacol, which is like a little stoma collar you put on under your flange and with it I have no leaks and I can get...
Well hopefully this gives her the "proof" she needs other than the finger test. Then it is just waiting to the end of the month to find out what the tests showed. Hopefully I don't get too blocked up...
Well at least I know that it wont' be some horrible probing test :) I'm just worried the barium will block me up afterwards, I keep getting blocked up every couple days (no this is not an...
I am scheduled for a small bowel follow through finally after four months of waiting for some test to be done to show that I have stenosis happening right behind my stoma! I'm just wondering if...
:( Feeling like the world is against me today. Once again I sit here blocked up with nothing but incredibly stinky liquid at high velocity when it decides to come out, incredible pains around the...
This sounds like what I am going through. They originally thought my intestines were kinking and unkinking but when I saw my surgeon about a week and a half ago she thinks what I think. That my...
They aren't really sure yet, they did an xray the day I was admitted and two days later did a CT scan but the contrast went right through so I don't think they got much out of the CT... So basically...
OMG we are too much alike! I just got home a week ago after a week long stay with an NG tube at the hospital... they aren't sure what is happening with me either. Seems like I'm kinking and...
Torrance Boy everyone is different everyone reacts to things differently. I was lucky I got to make the decision to have it done myself so I think that plays a big role in how I look at it. One thing...
The pharmacist said he would call the company that makes them and see if they could give him any information. I'm not really looking forward to taking them again anyway... they make me emotionally...
UC for me, I was steroid dependant and didn't want to try the Humira with all of it's nasty side effects so finally I said take her out! I just want to be healthy I don't care if I poop in a bag...
My gyn said he didn't really recommend the nuvaring but he did mention the patch so I may have to switch for that for now. Until I'm sure I don't want any kids I guess I gotta do something!...
I was just to the gynecolegist to have my IUD removed as it has been causing me issues for over a year now. He prescribed a low dose birth control pill for me. I didn't consider the fact that I may...
Well I had a rough end of the week last week. I decided to try bananas for the first time since surgery and the first time was fine. Now Thursday I had some leftover turkey and a banana at lunch time...