Dreams/nightmares

[Misty-Eyed]

Does anyone else have dreams or nightmares about their stoma?

I keep getting loads of them! The most common are farting/pooing even though I still have a bag and no colon. Although the other night I had a bad one where my stoma kept prolapsing. I find it really weird.

 

[Terriernut]

That is really weird! Perhaps a holiday would put you right!

 

[EthanPSU]

I have dreams that i'm driving and my brakes give out and I need to swerve and steer to survive, but I always wake up before I crash...sorry, totally unrelated...lol.

 

[glum chump]

Yes! I had one just the other night. I dreamt that I was changing my appliance and when i looked down at the stoma to clean it up, I noticed that the top half of my stoma had 'fallen off' and was sitting there with the flange that I'd just taken out. I totally freaked out, and was trying to decide whether I should pack the 'half-stoma' in ice and go to ER when i woke up. TOTALLY threw me for a loop when I woke up. And I was so relieved that it was a dream.

I can tell you, though, I've been taking everything off very very gently on change days. [Shudder]

Kismet

 

[Christie]

i had a couple of dreams when i had my stoma, they were about leaking all over the place!!

 

[estrella409]

I have no stoma, but the other night I had a dream that my entire small intestine came out through a fistula in my armpit. Very, very freaky.

 

[shazz]

I have the leaking dreams. Mostly.

The other night tthough I had the weirdest dream of my bag filling with air/wind and it lifted me off the ground. My hubby came home from work to find me in the top corner of the kitchen!

Personally I blame the drugs!

 

[Misty-Eyed]

Haha glad it's not just me that has these dreams then! I think that's what's disturbing, because they feel so real at the time.

I had another one last night that I had my bag but went to the toilet and tired to go normally. I think I dream too much anyway!

 

[shazz]

Hahaha will keep a look out for you on the news toothy!!!

 

[robbo87]

I have dreams that i'm driving and my brakes give out and I need to swerve and steer to survive, but I always wake up before I crash...sorry, totally unrelated...lol.

I've had a couple like that in the past, one in particular I was going downhill and my car breaks were unresponsive... according to google it meant i was worried about not being in control or something, I also had a few dreams in the last year or so where i was back in school again and involving my old school mates who i havent seen in years! very weird!

as for the stoma ones, I dont remember having many about my stoma as such maybe one where it was like prolapsing and stuff but i have had a few where ive been having operations etc, one in particular where i woke up in the middle of an operation , was a horrible dream.

 

[glum chump]

Okay, so bear in mind that I'm using the Nicoderm patch to quit smoking and have been having some really weird, vivid dreams. Two nights ago, I dreamt that my stoma was actually in the side of the neck, and my bag was an IV drip. I was at a job interview with my IV/poop pole and my stoma kept passing loud farts. I kept seeing the horrified faces of the interview panel, the stoma-farts kept reverberating against my voice-box, making my voice sound totally weird. I woke up before finding out whether I got the job.

I woke up and very tentatively, felt both sides of my neck. You know, just in case...This was one dream that I just DID NOT need to come true!

Kismet

 

[sammies]

The worst one I had was that banana came out of my stoma whole. It was such a vivid dream! I couldn't eat bananas for weeks.

But seriously, even 3 years past surgery, I still dream that I'm having a BM.