Using a pencil ✏️ to help a wafer - General Ostomy

RE: Using a pencil ✏️ to help a wafer

VeganOstomy — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 16:24:41 +0000

I have heard of this before on a forum. One lady had a PVC pipe cut and smoothed to use.

Yup, anything round that can go around your stoma can be an excellent alternative to the commercial "Equalizer" product.

RE: Using a pencil ✏️ to help a wafer

Chelly — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 03:59:24 +0000

@goatherder awesome!! Hey us ostomates have to do what we have to do.

RE: Using a pencil ✏️ to help a wafer

GoatHerder — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 16:43:41 +0000

@chelly That's how I do it, a PVC pipe coupler!

RE: Using a pencil ✏️ to help a wafer

Chelly — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 21:07:09 +0000

I have heard of this before on a forum. One lady had a PVC pipe cut and smoothed to use.
I wear a one piece and I have to push my fingers around the stoma through the whole bag.

RE: Using a pencil ✏️ to help a wafer

john68 — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 17:20:55 +0000

Can just imagine the Headline in a few years. Richard Branson and Elon Musk in a bidding war to buy the rights to VeganOstomy Pencil Ltd. 😂

RE: Using a pencil ✏️ to help a wafer

VeganOstomy — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 17:04:42 +0000

Get a patent on that, John! =)

I use an empty toilet paper roll to press down around my stoma after putting my appliance on, but I've used q-tips in the past to do the same so this pencil idea seems like a more environmentally-friendly way (no waste) to do it.

Thanks for sharing that tip!

Using a pencil ✏️ to help a wafer

john68 — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 16:51:38 +0000

Hi Folks, Just wanna share something I have been doing during my ostomy change. I wear a 2 piece and the bit between the ring of the wafer and stoma I always like to make sure it’s making contact all the way round. There ain’t always a lot of room and I would always use a cotton bud/Q tip to firm around. I have seen flexible devices for sale for this purpose. A few weeks ago I hadn’t any q tips to hand and was looking for something when it occurred to me 💡the pencil I use to mark the wafer has a round smooth top. It’s a brilliant job and also I now won’t have to use the buds and it’s wipe clean. Maybe this is something others have been doing.