Extended Release Tabs in Bag?

[giftedbyadoption]

Hi everyone I hope you are all well and ready for santa to come
I have a question for those with a ileostomy that to whom ever has NO colon left at all will not b reversing there surgery and etc...
Do you take extended release meds how so you do with them do they work the same or come right out in your bag.

Thanks in advance!!:wink:

 

[Hobbes650]

If I have a choice, I take the regular ones and not the extended release. But I've also had 6-9 feet of small intestine removed due to mulitple j-pouch failures. I did take budesonide for a while. Those were controlled release which I assume is the same thing, and my doctor said it wouldn't be a problem. Didn't really work anyways so I don't take it anymore. But if I take a 24 hour pill for my sinuses sometimes I see what's left of the pill in my ostomy output. Some vitamins I tried did that too from what I remember.

 

[giftedbyadoption]

Thats for responding but you have some left even a few inches I have KNOWN.... mine emptys as SOON as I eat drink .... the only thing that has slowed it down is the morphine go figure I dont go every 5 minutes abd

 

[2thFairy]

Hobbes has no colon left, same as you.

 

[Susan2]

I have no colon or rectum either and also some of my small intestine gone. I don't take any specific Crohn's meds, but do use Imodium for control on very liquid days. Also Magnesium supplement.

 

[giftedbyadoption]

You all need to talk to you DRs I worry its saddens me how little they tell us Ostomates I found out how bad it was my last hospitalization when my levels were taken and my theophline level was 0 and I take it everyday twice a day. So I started using the disposable bags instead of emptying and there you go my meds where in the bad. We dont absorb them right either with out our intestines get online read about it its all there. I have to crush all my meds except the time release and I was HOPING these would work but they are not, so I have to start a patch I take 9 pills a day .... as for the Imodium it resolves ot digest right away in the stomach and small intestines I dont get it either but thats what my surgeon said BUT my dietitian says buy liquid?? Good luck everyone <3 Merry Christmas!!

 

[Jaano711]

If you are using Imodium capsules you can open then and take the powder only. This means they absorb much quicker.