Reply to AlexT
My ileostomy has had me since 2015. I ate whatever I wanted (conservatively) until about 8 months ago when out of the blue it acquired a blockage!
I'm telling you this so you might realize the random and completely unpredictable nature of 6 years of nothing short of my best efforts
to prevent blowouts and all the other heart-wrenching surprises with progress and unwanted surprises!
I always go into the hospital on Friday, the day (IMHO) the B-Team prepares to take over and the answer is "I'm so sorry, but nothing can be done until Monday/Tuesday".
To make a long/shorty, After my dying routine the on-call dr was called who sent in a nurse with an "NG-TUBE", lots of blood squirting, screaming, you know, the usual to no avail.
but 4 hr later, act 2 with a smaller diameter hose, SUCCESS!
After the worst 20 hr ever, I pulled it out, without the details except, I was held until the following Thursday with no meds, feeding tubes back in.
Fentanyl was continued for a couple days, but the dr said it was making me goofy (I'm foofy all the time) and normally on a lot of meds!
Sorry this took so long, trying to expose the perils, don't want to scare you, but to let you know we are all in this and most of life is still
well worth living and if I can do it so can you!!
jb