Hi Brewers Beauty 7 weeks is still an extremely new ostomy. Like answers4me said, it will get better as time goes by. It took about 9 months before I felt normal again, and until my ileostomy was...
Here's how I apply my pouching system. I also use Hollister two-piece. I change once a week, after my naked shower. This is early in the morning, first thing after waking, before I eat or drink...
I had to be hospitalized 4 times after my surgery with dehydration and kidney failure, sodium and potassium were low and crazy. Eventually my body figured it out, and it stopped. I take Lomotil, a...
Hi CWM Yes, it's a hernia and when you lay down and it goes back in it is said that the hernia "reduces." I recommend a ostomy support belt from Nu-Hope. I wear mine day and night and only take it...
I laughed when you wrote "you have poop coming out of places that it shouldn't come!" It sure was! But also, it's extremely painful, and that was the worst part. My ileostomy stoma is a little less...
Hi Jemena This is the first time I've replied to a post on this forum. I also have Crohn's disease, the kind that causes fistulas. Before the surgery to make my ileostomy, I had fistulas from bowel...