Concerned about strange substance in my ostomy bag! Need advice ASAP!

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I just passed some gas into my bag. Well, I looked in the bag (I have a clear one while awaiting for my others to get here in the mail) because today my ostomy has been extra productive, so I wanted to know if it needed to be changed. Well, I then passed gas again and it ballooned, and right in front of my stoma, stuck to the bag, is a waxy semi-clear....something. It came out with the gas. While I can't actually feel it, through the bag it feels kinda sticky and a pliable hard...like wax or rubber cement. I'm scared what it is.

Here is a picture but in real life it is not at all yellow-brown but white. And I have had mucus/pus at least back when I had a colon and rectum and this is nothing like it.
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I would say: Corn maybe??

Not corn textured and I haven't had corn. I'm still on the hospital beige diet of chicken, fish, bread, noodles, rice, soft carrot, cheese (Well I don't eat cheese).

Also, it isn't corn because it is pure white. Such a mystery.

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Hello Gemd. Thanks for the post and the pictures. In my early days with a stoma. all sorts of different things in different colours and textures came out of both the stoma and the rectal stump.  I would examine them and try to figure out what they were made of and maybe tease out reasons for their existence. A couple of my rhyming verses on stomas reflect this sort of deliberation. However, this tends to be  a fleeting phase in the process of adjusting to the vagaries of stoma life so make the most of it while you can and, as the song says: 'don't worry- be happy'.

Best wishes

Bill 

I have had some weird things come out in the beginning as well. Maybe because of surgery but like gas, better out than in!

Puppyluv

Thanks all for alleviating some fears. I had mucus from my rectal stump a week after surgery as well.

I had severe mucus in rectal for several months! Eventually went away!

I found it very interesting that so many things we eat we don't really digest well. I have

four sisters and I love to tease them that at least I can see what I eat...just have fun with your stoma, because it is what it is... Best of luck...