I thought this was interesting. It would be a good reference tool to have with you when talking to your healthcare provider trying to describe what your output is like. There are pictures and everything!
I will try to link it in here. It is from the Academic Journal of Gastroenterology Hepatology. Output Consistency Scale to Standardize Ostomate Output.
Geez, I hope I never have any Type A. It looks like malted milk balls, which I happen to love.
I love them too. I wish they had used a different picture.
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Very interesting and helpful, Sally. I downloaded it and will use as a reference. Henry, very funny!
The study was done at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. I thought maybe you were one of the participants.
I did participate in a research study, but labeling my poop was never a question. And since I think I'm the only ostomate in Nebraska, you'd think they'd want my input (or output in this case).
Yeah, would you think, eh? I'm sure you are a stellar subject.
Hello SallyK.
Thanks for posting this link. Personally, I couldn't relate to most of it, but it puts me in mind of the Bristol stool chart I used to use before I had a stoma - when I when incontinent in the 1990's. I have found a link to this: https://www.hct.nhs.uk/media/1067/bristol-stool-chart.… I used to have to use the chart for describing the output to the incontinence-nurses of the time.
I found if I googled Bristol faeces chart , it came up with a whole range of modern graphics for this same scale. What could be described as 'shit-art'?
Best wishes
Bill
'Shit-art' LOL
Reminds me of the time when my son was 4 years old and made a beautiful flower for mommy out of his poop. Brown playdoh. LOL He is 31 now and hates when I tell that story.
Sounds like a great nickname (re: Henry's post) for a stoma:
Shitart
Kinda has a ring to it
B-I for me. Also, I am ileostomy.
In the UK, they mostly use types of chocolate products for the poo scale.
Well, when I was a weirdo with a functioning bottom, it was always an ouch! I can only imagine now that I have special powers in the front how bad that must feel.
I'm an ileo and shoot. I run from C, D, E, F. Lol... a lot of D... which isn't easy trying to empty.
Thanks for the link. At least I know now there are different types of output, and that most are considered "normal". I have a recent ileostomy (under 3 months) and have been E-I. Love the thread, if we can't laugh what's the point? Anyways, happy I found this site. Feeling alone has been the worst part!