Hi, me again with another question! Has anyone had small amounts of blood on the wafer of the appliance? I try to cut the wafer to the size of the stoma; all has been good until now. My stoma changes sizes all the time (is this normal?), and sometimes it's flush with my skin, and sometimes it pops out. Ugh, it's never the same. On the last two bag changes, I noticed there is blood on the rim of the wafer. I'm sure it's from the wafer rubbing on the stoma, but I don't know how to stop it. I tried cutting the hole a bit bigger, and now I have raw skin. I have a colostomy and use Coloplast drainable one-piece. I already use half a moldable ring because I have a small dent under the stoma, so now I tried using three-quarters of the ring around the stoma. So how do I prevent the ring or appliance from rubbing my stoma and making it bleed? Maybe it's from sleeping or bending. Anyone have any advice or suggestions?
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