I think we must all be very different. I use a one piece bag and change it 4 or 5 times a day, wipe the area covered by the adhesive with warm water then with...
changing a one piece bag 4 times a day? Do you mean you use closed pouches and take the pouch off the wafer and throw it away? I can't imagine taking...
Hi I do take the complete pouch off 4 or 5 times each day. I tried the two piece pouches but they're thicker than the one piece and catch on my trouser belt....
--We have tried the kind with the wafer. It only lasted 2 days and came lose. Which I didn't use the sticky stuff to put under it. I have the betadine kind. I...
Carla, I have been seeing a lot of your e-mailings and some of the responses you get for them------as well as messages from a lot of others who send in their...
Hi All, Interesting to read all your comments. My reconnection last year did not work and I am resigned to have the colostomy as a permanent thing. I cast...
Hi Convatec does a locking bag two piece system too...I used it when I had my colostomy...as well as the one you referred too as the tupperware lid!!! The ...
I am interested in finding a "cap" or something that I could use during Business meetings. I am also interested in irrigation, can anyone tell me about it? ...
My husband has had a colostomoy now for almost a year.. He found a company called austin Medical.. which has Ampatches.. They are like a bandaid that...
Barbie, Thank you, I'll give them a try. Jon ... From: Barbara Shinaver <barbsh10@...> To: colostomy@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, June 6, 2006 11:20:51...
Regan, I'm 48, also permanent. How did you learn how to do this? What is needed? Where do you buy what is needed? What happened yesterday, if I'm not being too...
well the ET nurse, Gave me an irrigation kit. I think I am using to much water. I was doing it at night and not having output for the whole next day. But ...
What smell? LOL Thanks, I really appreciate your reply, and your sense of humor. We have to have a sense of humor, or I think we'd scream! Good luck, Jon ps. I...
hello..........I have been reading your posts, and I would like to know what other forums you belong to, to get more information. I had to have emergency...
Hi Lou, Don't you worry everything will be okey, I had colostomy surgery last October 7, 2004 then I was okey, then I had another major surgery due to severe...
Hey guys, what's an ET nurse? Is this irrigation stuff the same as having an enema? I had a chat with another surgeon who says this way, you can move without...
It's almost three years since my diverticulitis acted up and had to undergo colostomy. The attempt to reconnect last year failed and now a perm. I have not...
Hi Mamaw I had emergency surgery and a colostomy too...I had the reversal in Dec 2005 and it went well....feel free to email me if you have any questions. ...
My hubby had to have the incision in the belly opened up a month ago. Now it was draining a brown color and stopped when we did iv therapy. Now it is draining...
Nope... do let me know what the doc finds. Regards, Vic ycolpepper <carla_grooms2001@...> wrote: My hubby had to have the incision in the belly opened up...
I had what is called a seroma. It is a pocket that fills up with fluid in the incision. It's not infected or anything just annoying. It keeps the wound from...
-This is exactly what he has. It is getting better. Back to the color as yours. Incision is almost closed. Thanks for posting and good lucko on your surgery....
I got my colostomy in 2004, it was meant to be temporary while the surgical repair of my colon for an abcess healed. The reversal procedure took place four ...
Jerry, You story and mine are extremely similar. I too had a ruptued colon and spent 10 weeks in ICU because everything inside swelled and they couldn't put it...
Dear Jerry Like you, I had my colostomy after having a ruptured diverticular abscess last September. It seems, from this group, that in the US you go for...
As I sit reading some of the posts about the things some of you have went through, I wonder about things. So much of these posts sound just like our experience...
Thanks Carla, I really could have lived quite happily with out those last couple of messages about toxic shock and septicemia etc. I had a colonoscopy today...
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