Just the Bag

I am always pushing the poo down my bag anyway throughout the day so anytime I open the 2-piece for a "burp" or to take off the bag part, I just make sure that the poo is pushed down to the bottom of the bag.  It is like I wipe it with the inside of the bag so it is slippery and soft but I do it from the outside.  That way when I open it, I do not have crap coming out.  I slide the inside of the bag in a circular motion around my stoma and then push it all down and it has never hurt my stoma or caused any damage or bleeding at all.  I hope that helps.

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Pancolitis - July 2006

Surgery - Temporary ilestomy on 2.25.08 at Cleveland Clinic. Next surgery in 6 months

Medications:  Predisone - 5mg (and tapering to zero)

Supplements:  multi-vit, calcium

Reason for surgery: Steriod dependent and allergic reactions to imuran and 6mp. Elected not to try remicade.

i use a drainable pouch, i am not brave enough to try it from the top like that, lol.
I will try rinsing it first though, and spinning those both sound like good ideas.
thanks!

yeah water is what i use, squirt from the bottom, swish around at the top :o)

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25 y/o female- crohns disease since 14
Ileostomy pending-very worried
Tried asacol,pentasa,prednisone,remicade,6mp,azasan, no avail
Seatons placed
Worst year ever!

"For God has not given us the spirit of fear....."
Where does mine come from?!

 Temp Ileostomy performed 1/29/08

Still Adusting

 Healingwell.com has been my Godsend...Thank you

A leak in the bag? What kinds of bags are you using, if you don't mind my asking--and what part of the bag are they leaking from? I had a temp ileo (granted, for only three months) and never had a bag itself leak.

well i have had a few problems with the tails of the bags, got a bad batch once, it's the hollister's ones. But what happened the other day was i ate some stuff, that came out rather chunky (eww i know!) and it punched a hole in the filter thingy. I have had my bag for over a year and except for the bad batch of bags, haven't had much trouble, at least that wasn't my own stupid fault, lol. Like the day i forgot to close the end of the bag after changing the system, or at the very first when i would change it and didnt' always get it snapped on good. Other than that, i really haven't had much trouble.
Another reason i was asking is that if we have people over to swim, i like to wear the mini bags, but it has been such a pain to change from regular bag to mini bags, i just gave up!

see that's what i have been doing, i think i must just be messy and clumsy!

smartie pants! this has nothing to do with this topic, but that made me think of this. My little boy came into the living room with this box of stuff, tryign to figure out how to work it, and he comes up to me and he has foudn a box of these NuHope seals that for some reason i keep getting sent, and he has them out and i guess he thinks they are some type of play-doh! so he is trying to mold them and stuff, lol.