Managing Diet with Ileostomy and Type 2 Diabetes

Hi everyone

Daz from England, married, mature salesman, works about 60 hours a week, has had an ileostomy since his late 20s. I get on with it and haven't let it be a detrimental thing to spoil my life, but now with type 2 diabetes for the last 3 years, I don't know what diet to have. I'm always tired and my output is high; it has always been pretty high. One diet contradicts the other for the two illnesses. I'm fit for my age, going to the gym and walking mainly with my dog, and my sales job involves a lot of door-to-door sales and other exercises, but this is getting me down: what to eat and what not to eat. For instance, wholemeal bread 🍞 is bad for my bag; it can block it, and so on.

Please advise

Thanks

You are right; the two diets contradict each other. It is frustrating. I try my best to eat healthy, but my ostomy doesn't like many veggies or fruits, which is what is in the diabetic diet. I eat the veggies I can and the fruits I can. I find the little cups of fruit work best because they are soft. I eat peaches, pears, mango, and mandarin oranges in little one-serving cups. I also eat broccoli all ground up, and zucchini peeled and cooked in a pan, and I eat beets with no salt added from a can. Those are my main fruits and veggies. I eat applesauce too. I buy keto-friendly bread because it is lower carb. I eat zero net carb tortillas. To thicken up my output and slow it down, I eat peanut butter on my keto-friendly bread. Bananas also slow down output. And if all else fails, Imodium works for slowing down output and thickening it up. Find the fruits and veggies you can eat and focus on them. I tell you what will really thicken your output is sweet potatoes and pumpkin. If you buy canned pumpkin pie mix and eat it instead of making it into a pie, you will have thick, slower output for sure.

I also am in the same situation for the last 5 years... And I have a dietician and diabetes educator... but both of them have told me to eat what your body can tolerate... in so many words, damn if you do, damn if you don't... (what the dietician told me)... Not every diabetic is the same or person with an ileostomy... I pretty much eat whatever I want within reason... nothing seems to slow down my output... I've tried a lot of things... sometimes it works, the next it doesn't... Just don't eat over 70 grams of carbs at once and limit sugar, of course... only advice I can give... eventually, just like the ileostomy, you'll figure it out...

Thank you for your kind advice. I shall try some of the tips. I take about 14 Imodium tablets a day.

Take care.

Daz

Thank you for your kind advice. I shall try some of the tips. I take about 14 Imodium tablets a day.

I eat what I want within reason, especially as I'm out and about all day in sales.

I was in the hospital for 2 months as my output was 3 times what it should be.

Still the same, lol.

Just have to get on with it.

Take care.

Thanks again.

Daz

Take care.

Daz

My Ostomy Journey: Jearlean | Hollister

What a pain... I've been in and out of the hospital for the last 5 years with absences, and the one thing that gets me all the time is them telling me my output is too watery. I need to drink more 🤨 ... ummm nope, if you bother reading my billion-page novel of a chart, it clearly states I've always been high output. Imodium works about 75% of the time for me. Like everyone here, we just need to find what our normal is for us and try to help each other when we can. Take care.

Your history sounds somewhat similar to mine. I've had a lot of surgeries, maybe not a lot to some, but I didn't understand when I was younger, in my early 20s, about adhesions and how much damage they can do. I've had blockages, but I had a hard time explaining what was going on with my doctor. I wouldn't eat before the visit because I didn't want any problems to happen. Therefore, he said I'm not having blockages. I got fed up with the doctors here, so I went to Cleveland. The doctor there did make things a lot better, not perfect, but better. I don't have diabetes, but I had a brother who had type 1. Even though I don't, I can relate to your eating problem. Hope we can talk sometime.