Just curious for the colostomy folks on here. Is the area where your stoma is located flat like the rest of the stomach or do you have a hill or protruding round area?...........
letsrock
Mar 30, 2016 11:27 pm
AlistairC
Mar 31, 2016 12:39 am
Hey, Alistair here...
I had a big mound when I first got mine. It was so big I had a tough time getting the wafer to stay on. I called it my "Ostomy Boob". After I was done with my post-surgery chemo treatments, I had another surgery to flatten it out. It was a big hernia caused by the first surgery. My surgeon installed some mesh to help with future hernia problems... so far so good.
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Posted by: w30bob
Hi gang,
I was thinking what a great resource this site has been for me since I found it. It would have been really helpful, but maybe a bit scary, to have found it before my ostomy, but that's water under the bridge. But I got thinking about it, and now I'm questioning why doctors and hospitals don't provide this site's contact info to any patient even considering an ostomy today. And how can we change that so potential ostomates can learn about the road ahead for them by getting on here and asking questions before the docs go chop-chop. How exactly do you get all hospitals to provide their patients specific information, like this website?
I just happened to find this site something like 4 years after my ostomy when I Googled "ostomy forum" or something like that. But I never found it during previous searches.....so I found this site pretty much by pure luck. We need to find a way to make this site available to new or soon-to-be ostomates......as that's when we really need to commiserate with fellow ostomates. Anybody have any thoughts on how we do this?
Thanks,
Bob
Cc
Mar 31, 2016 4:36 pm
Two years ago when the colostomy was done, it was flat. Now it has become an "ostomy boob". I am heading back to the US in about two weeks and will check with the doctor. I will report the findings.
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letsrock
Mar 31, 2016 5:04 pm
Mine has never been flat, sort of a small hill. I went to have it checked out, not a hernia, according to them, but not as flat as promised...
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