Bob,

     Thank you for replying and just take your time like i_poof said and do it in your own time. I am having another hernia repair but this one is going to be associated with both of my ostomies(colostomy and urostomy) repairs at the same time on July 29Th. If nothing else should go wrong I will be around until then. So, take your time and just you get better.

                                                       Phyl

--- On Sat, 6/21/08, Robert Query <rpquery@...> wrote:

From: Robert Query <rpquery@...>
Subject: Re: [stomacentralint] RE:Repeat Hernia's/vitamin defeciency
To: stomacentralint@yahoogroups.com
Date: Saturday, June 21, 2008, 8:31 AM

Phyllis,

 

Regarding your questions... ....Yes.. ....No matter what type of Ostomy one has the chance of hernias is the same.  I have a Urostomy, and will answer some of your questions a bit later as I just went through a bad reaction to a treatment for Anemia also, and am still a bit wobbly as I just got up.  Once I get my feet under me I will give you as much info as I can concerning both issues.

 

By the way, I had promised some time back to give an update on my fight with Anemia, but so much has been going on I simply had not gotten back to posting the results of my search for my own body's Anemia problem.  I have the answers now and will do an update on that also, but first I need to get some food in me, and get my BP stable...... I have low BP problems from time to time.  More later.

 

Bob Query

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Phyllis Nichols

To: adultswithspinabifi da@yahoogroups. com ; stomacentralint@ yahoogroups. com

Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 10:18 PM

Subject: [stomacentralint] RE:Repeat Hernia's/vitamin defeciency

Dear Group,      I know that it has been a long time since I have written to the group and I am doing it now with a plated and screwed radial head in my arm that I broke last week.I am in a temporary splint so just know I am trying not to make any mistakes.      My question is Has anyone other than one person I know had multiple Hernia's around and near their ostomies?      I have had at least 5 and now have another one and am running out of muscle and skin to have them done. What happens if that really does happen?  I have pigskin in now instead of the mesh that I am allergic to or it rejects it on its own and that hasn't worked either. So, if anyone has any ideas or is in the same situation as I am with the hernia's could you let me know. Thanks.       I also heard something I thought might be interesting to   some of you. That if you have had a lot of your intestine removed that you are at high risk of a vitamin12 defeciency.It doesn't always show up in just the vitamin testing they due to your blood all at once, but it does show up if you just have your vitamin B 12 taken alone. If it does come back it is called Pernious(sp) Anemia. It has many signs of it and I have alot of them.Some being balance problems, double or impaired vision,memory problems like dementia, diarrhea, and many others. I am going to be tested and thought I would pass it on to others who may have similar symptoms.      I was watching a Mysterious Mysterys program about this women who had been getting sicker and sicker for over 4 years(about the time I have been trying to figure out what is going on with me) with these symptoms and I thought I was watching my life on the tv.So, just thought I would pass it on.    Phyl