hello everyone. I just had my ileostomy surgery in may2016. has anyone had any complications after surgery? everything seemed to be going fine besides my high output after. when I was discharged I was discharged with a picc line to give myself hydration and magnesium at home. my first picc line had gotten infected so I had to get another. seems that my veins do not like piccs at all. I now have deep vein thrombosis(DVT) in both arms. I've had a few obstructions after the surgery as well. had to go to ER get the NG tube and all that jazz. they seem to think that its scar tissue.
anyways after my first obstruction my stoma had shrunk again. just as it has after surgery and like that dr said it would. it was kind of lopsided and the OZ was off to the right. well after it shrunk a few weeks ago and the OZ has been at a 90 degree angle with my skin and developed a nice ulcer. the ostomy nurses and I have tried all pouching options barriers, seals, different wafer and even deep convexity wafers. you name it and it probably has been done. there were days where I had to change my wafer 3 times a day, but I had gotten changed everyday anyways. so the ulcer then turned into an abscess. last Friday I went in to see the ostomy nurse and surgeon and be numbed it and put a seton like drain in.( that was tons of fun). I am on antibiotics flagyl and Cipro. they are making me super nauseous. I am really pushing for a revision for my stoma because once I get off these antibiotics I have this feeling that everything is going to happen the same way again. stool is now passing through the drain because its right at the oz and draining out through my abdomen. how is that going to help the infection.? i'm just confused... has anyone else ever had this problem before???
anyways after my first obstruction my stoma had shrunk again. just as it has after surgery and like that dr said it would. it was kind of lopsided and the OZ was off to the right. well after it shrunk a few weeks ago and the OZ has been at a 90 degree angle with my skin and developed a nice ulcer. the ostomy nurses and I have tried all pouching options barriers, seals, different wafer and even deep convexity wafers. you name it and it probably has been done. there were days where I had to change my wafer 3 times a day, but I had gotten changed everyday anyways. so the ulcer then turned into an abscess. last Friday I went in to see the ostomy nurse and surgeon and be numbed it and put a seton like drain in.( that was tons of fun). I am on antibiotics flagyl and Cipro. they are making me super nauseous. I am really pushing for a revision for my stoma because once I get off these antibiotics I have this feeling that everything is going to happen the same way again. stool is now passing through the drain because its right at the oz and draining out through my abdomen. how is that going to help the infection.? i'm just confused... has anyone else ever had this problem before???
