I use this- its dual purpose makes it very useful. :smile:...
It depends on why you're having the surgery. If it's for inflammatory bowel disease such as Crohn's, it's often more helpful for the surgeon to remove the intestine from the abdomen to feel it and...
Barrier creams from the ostomy supplier are also suitable for protecting the perianal skin as well as peristomal skin. Coloplast's Comfeel barrier cream is good, as is Pelican's. Kez...
I use a two piece bag system (Coloplast Easiflex 2 piece) , and affix a clean bag (keeping on the same backing flange) after my shower every morning. I don't have time for a one piece as I work...
Give me a bag over a burning butt and diarrhoea any day of the week. My ileostomy was initially temporary but it's not now due to my Crohn's playing up in the bypassed bits. I can safely say that the...
I have recently been speaking to my doctor about this very thing. The advice given to me is wait until you've had your family before the reconnective surgery- for me, this was explained that this is...
Hi Pb4-thanks for the information. I had deep patchy lesions throughout my colon (no rectal involvement through) and backwash ileitis. The lesions I did have had gone through the entire tissue of the...
Hey Anita, Noone wants a bag, but compared to IBD (or whatever condition every had), it's a blessing. It does give you back your life. Kez...
I get it too. By the time food has reached the end of the small bowel where the stoma is, the food is fully digested so your body should have taken what it needs out. Kez...
I never realised, but bile salts can actually cause diarrhoea such as we are experiencing. They an prescribe a bile salt seqrestrant that effectively soaks them up, and the diarrhoea is reduced. This...
I think you are not getting much response for ileostomy reversal because it is only a forum for people with ileostomies- I know I would never visit another ileostomy site again once I got rid of it!...
I'm in remission in the bowel that I use, the 1/3 of the large bowel that was left in has flared. With regards to medicines- you get then prescribed by the doctor, take the prescription form to the...
Only that personally, I am happy with my bag. Although I can't now have a reconnection becuase the Crohn's has flared up in the bit they were going to join it to, I wouldn't choose to go back to...
Hi Janet- I have Crohn's-colitis, which is Crohn's of the large bowel. Unfortunately, it's not curable and does tend to reoccur in the small bowel after a colectomy. The average length of time for...
I have watery output all day and all night! I got put on Questran and Imodium- both have helped a great deal. Kez...
I've been getting increasingly frequent output into the bag. My gastroenterologist says that 5 empties a day should be the most that a very hygiene-conscious person has to empty out. I can go up to...
I use four liberal squirts into the bag, and top up into the (cleaned) spout during the day. I find it works OK! Kez...
Hi all- a while back I started using a bag deodorant.. pretty necessary you might say, but when I first got my bag, noone mentioned to me that these were available and I had been managing without for...