Hi - I have had a colostomy for 10 months. It is permanent. I have had good luck with it except for one thing: my poop gets hung up around my stoma and won't drop down into the pouch. This happens almost every day, meaning I am changing my bag almost every day. This is getting to be expensive. Recently, I adjusted my diet to include more fruit (canned, without sugar) and that seems to help loosen the poop up a bit, but it still hangs up. I am thinking about adding cooked vegetables to my diet. Will that help, do you think? Also, I have heard there is a product which lubricates the pouch so that the poop slides down to the bottom, but I have also heard that the lubricatinhg product neutralizes the odor-fighting capacity of pouch deoderant. Does anyone have experience with this? Any help would be very appreciated.

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