I see this is an older thread and wonder if anyone checks on it. I had my surgery on 8/31/17 and up until recently I’ve had a lot of discharge and was told this was normal because of where the tumor...
Thanks Poppie!!...
I’m still having the pancaking and it’s awful. I’ve been changing both the wafer and ostomy sometimes every day, it’s that bad. And I end up avoiding people if I have to. It depresses me. I’ve tried...
Haven’t written in a bit... been feeling pretty bad. I just finished radiation and chemo but boy did chemo kill me. I’m on day 2 coming off chemo and I still feel awful. I know it’ll take some time...
Thanks CLO!! Big help!! I did wash my hair in the bathroom sink, I have very short hair so it was easy, I just slid the Cadd pouch behind me and covered my shoulders and the area where the port is...
I know this question I'm about to ask is not about ostomies or colostomys but I could not find anything pertaining to colorectal cancer or a general cancer forum/chat so I thought I'd ask here and...
Oh sheesh I had a long response but I don't know what happened. Oh well it wasn't meant for me to post it. I've never tried Coloplast but I'll look int them. This is a temp colostomy to be made...
Its definitely the Hollister brand. I used the last sample I had of the wafer and ostomy bag and it did the same thing as the others did. I switched to the Convatec brand and they worked perfectly....
Wokeup around 1:30am and boy am I glad that I did!! The wafer was starting to come off and yes it was sealed on me very well. It was awful... I had to remove the entire wafer. It was starting to...
I'm trying to have a good attitude. This is going to be the rest of my life. Before the colostomy my life was literally a living hell. I was miserable. I was afraid to go anywhere. When I did I...
Here I go having problems with the ostomy and everything else with it. When ever I use Hollister I seem to have problems. With the other brand I was using I had just minor problems and was able to...
My thing is putting the "clip" thing back on. I can be very dyslexic and I have very poor fine motor skills and just when I think I figured out how to put it back on I have a heck of a hard time the...
Everything is going well. I changed my entire ostomy out since is had the nurse come today. Though things had been starting to do a lot better. The output was still a bit difficult to get out but I...
Clo, I was in terrible pain from the tumor I couldn't lay still on the table to have the radiation. My Dr upped the dosage and was given an RX of Xanax. I really wanted to do the treatments but I was...
Thank you Clo and cmf for your responses. I had to change the bag out this morning, it was so gunked up I couldn't clean it out at all. It's the medication I'm taking thats messing me up. I've pretty...
I recently had colostomy surgery in August and all this is new to me. I was diagnosed with stage 3C rectal cancer August 4, 2017. I'm on strong pain medications that are making my output too thick...