Yes iam type 2. We'll that's what I've been told my whole life until I started seeing my primary who says I'm type 1 because I was diagnosed pre-diabetic when I was 16. But my endo says he thinks I'm...
To be honest, I haven't been the best at taking care of my diabetes. I'm trying very hard to do the right thing now. Iam testing 4xs a day and my endo said he can't change anything until he gets an...
Ok so I take most of my insulin at night. I take 30u of levemir, 1.8u of victoza, and up until tonight I was taking Humalog on a sliding scale. I just got an endocrinologist today and he said to not...
Sorry, I thought I had put an update. So he now has the same setup as the urology bag, but it's an iliostomy bag now. It's working really well. We're not back to being able to change it every 4+...
This is the link to a pic of it. There's a adhesive patch that goes on the skin and a barrier ring that goes on that then the bag snaps on the adhesive patch....
Now I am not an expert on Celiacs, but from what I understand there is only 1 definitive way to test for celiacs and that is the endoscope biopsy. You can have a blood test done to see if you have...
So today she gave him a 3 piece bag that they said is technically for urine. If the output is thick it won't pour out as its a lever with a screen ty. But the bag does snap on and off. So far it has...
So my boss took him to the ostomy nurse today. They changed him to a flat back bag instead of convex and we're now using a barrier that you stretch a little and put near the stoma. We're to still use...
Ok so the wafer is the rubber ring I'm taking it since I Google it and that's what it showed. Is the friars tincture stuff like adapt paste?...
He was leaking occasionally before the surgery. But ever since the surgery he hasn't stopped leaking. I was told he is using a convex bag. He has a Lg scar starting mid stomach going down to his pu...
He had a surgery about 3 weeks ago. I don't know what the surgery was called, but basically his stoma kept protruding out and was long like 3 inches or more. So they did a surgery I think to make it...
He has an appointment with an ostomy nurse today. What do you mean by same size appliance? Like bag? If so his bags are the kind that you cut out the right size for his stoma. We've tried making them...
So I was diagnosed about 5 years ago with celiacs via endoscope biopsy. I immediately went gf. At the time and for a long while I had alot of pain and symptoms whenever I was glutened. All of a...
Ok, so I'm a dsp and my client has an iliostomy. He is now to the point where his skin is extremely raw from the leaking. Sometimes it bleeds just by touching it. I don't know the name of the...