Curious what has been found helpful for pursuing high-impact sports with an ileostomy. I was looking at Stealth Belt, which is expensive and has mixed reviews. I feel I can probably come up with a solution that is less expensive. Swimming, downhill mountain biking, running, volleyball, waterskiing, and backcountry skiing are my faves. Thanks.

In a few weeks, I'll be sending my car back to its origin up north since the lease is ending, and I'm thinking of ways to transport around town. It's pretty small, so I could walk to all the places I'd really need, but it might be nice to have a bicycle or moped to go a little further out some days. Has anyone ridden either one 1.5-2 months post-surgery? Was it okay on your tummy?
Also, today ...

EVERYONE WITH AN OSTOMY should fletcherize. Don’t look it up; you won’t find it. My handy-dandy book of word origins says it means (or, I suppose, meant, back in the early 20th C.) “to masticate food thoroughly.” A nutritionist named Horace Fletcher (1849-1919) advocated cutting out regular meals and eating only when hungry, consuming small amounts of food at one time, and chewi ...

This is my first World Ostomy Day. Thanks to you all for sharing your experience with me. It has helped me so much. Six months out of an emergency surgery that was unexpected and left me with my stoma has been rough, but I have learned so much from you all.

So, I don't know if I've mentioned this before, but I had been having pain under my left rib cage. I haven't been able to go #2 no matter what I did. I went to urgent care, then the ER twice, then back to urgent care. The second urgent care doctor was the one to finally give me answers. The problem was that I wasn't going #2 because I hadn't been eating (I was fearful that it would make the pa ...

Hello Ostomates,
We just returned from a trip to Switzerland. What a beautiful place filled with good food, people, and scenery. The trip lasted 13 days. We traveled by bus, train, and various gondolas, trams, and lifts. There were a few things I noticed that may help with travel here or any such place.
First, the 12-hour flight necessitated a few trips to the bathroom. Following my advice o ...

I had my colonoscopy on Thursday, and the doctor said I am on track for my 6-month reversal, which is in January. She was very happy with my general surgeon who did the emergency surgery and said that he left her plenty to work with.
I'm very excited about the opportunity to return to a “normal” life. But I have so many emotions. I'm nervous. I'm scared. I'm excited. And I also feel bad th ...

I have been away from this website for a short time. I decided to come back and see who's on here and what's going on. I'm looking for a friend who could turn into more than a friend. I'm lonely and hoping to find someone who has the same thing as I do so that it would not be an awkward situation.

My ileostomy was a total surprise. I woke up from a very long coma, panicking, trying to breathe with a trach after months of intense Fentanyl nightmares, having undergone dialysis, sepsis, tracheostomy, mucous fistula, ileostomy, no hair on the back of my head, just scars from excessive time on the pillow, significant muscle degradation. I'm sure there's other stuff, but you get the picture. ...

My hobbies are racing motorcycles, skydiving, bungee jumping, and flying. I can drive anything from an 18-wheeler to a unicycle and work on computers when inside.
Never let an ostomy stop you from doing anything you want to do.

May your bag be full and you get the shit scared out of you. Oh wait…‍