Hi, I'm Jorge and I have a LH ileostomy.
I was diagnosed with UC in '06 and we tried to medical route, but it progressed to pancolitis, so we tried a J-pouch. After a huge abscess at the anastomosis and going from 170 pounds to 125 they decided to divert and try to let it heal. it didn't so then we tried resections, and finally a pouchectomy. My last surgery the Pouchectomy was in 2011. Since then I've been slowly recovering and now and super active and healthy as heck with no meds to deal with. I take a loperamide once in a while.
I'm on this forum to meet people for one and then get ideas for what people use for super crazy activity. Like lots of bending and 200 sit-ups and olympic lifting and swimming and all that fun stuff.
As of now My setup is convatec products, with a stealth belt, and ostomy armor and compression underwear to hold it all in place. Problems come with a relatively flat stomach doing crunch and situps and the like I make a bunch of creases and the wafer pulls away from the stoma, so a device the folds well. I'm so open to suggestions.
Nice seeing such a large support network
I was diagnosed with UC in '06 and we tried to medical route, but it progressed to pancolitis, so we tried a J-pouch. After a huge abscess at the anastomosis and going from 170 pounds to 125 they decided to divert and try to let it heal. it didn't so then we tried resections, and finally a pouchectomy. My last surgery the Pouchectomy was in 2011. Since then I've been slowly recovering and now and super active and healthy as heck with no meds to deal with. I take a loperamide once in a while.
I'm on this forum to meet people for one and then get ideas for what people use for super crazy activity. Like lots of bending and 200 sit-ups and olympic lifting and swimming and all that fun stuff.
As of now My setup is convatec products, with a stealth belt, and ostomy armor and compression underwear to hold it all in place. Problems come with a relatively flat stomach doing crunch and situps and the like I make a bunch of creases and the wafer pulls away from the stoma, so a device the folds well. I'm so open to suggestions.
Nice seeing such a large support network