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Navey, these sound like excellent suggestions that I'll be trying starting tonight. Thank you!

I enjoyed reading this so much that it's making me consider air travel prior to my reversal surgery. I was booked to travel solo to Glasgow, Edinburg...

Posted by: VeganOstomy Posted by: Illona Thank you Sarah, I am using a Convatec 2 piece bag so I guess I can change it without weakening my wafer seal...

Thank you Sarah, I am using a Convatec 2 piece bag so I guess I can change it without weakening my wafer seal? The terminology still has me confused,...

Eric, I decided no plane travel until my reversal surgery but I did book a cruise for October. Do you think I'll need special medical documentation f...

Ok I promise not to inundate this site with my own personal minutiae, but for newbies the info might help. I had chemo yesterday and my prednisone dos...

Thank you for the nice words. A little bit about me, I'm addicted to traveling, so if I'm not working my traveling days are over. So I'm very excite...

Sarah I agree about not worrying about the system. I had a very rocky start nd did not trust it at all but now I am actually about to forget it's on ...

Thanks for the info about the big bags and stuff. Last night was a bit better, I think I was able to sleep almost 3 hours in a row at one point. Toda...

How many times are you emptying at night? My problem is I'm not a great sleeper to start with, and when emptying the bag it's a whole production putt...

I need to figure this out! I was able to go 4 hours without emptying after taking Dona's advice about eating less. Then yesterday I was on a predniso...

Dona, I took your advice and ate less last night. I was able to go 4 hours during the night without getting out of bed to empty! I would like to do ...

Please post common terms! A lot of my confusion in the beginning is just using the correct names for all my new products. I was using wafer and coo...

Thank goodness for the ACA. I am so lucky to be insured through my job but my daughter works for a small company that offers basic insurance that she...

Thanks so much! I'm still getting used to the terminology, I'm not changing the bg every hour, I'm emptying every hour. Im so worried about leaving...

This is so inspiring! I work so I can afford to travel and had to cancel my 2017 solo trip to the UK due to my illness. I will go in 2018 instead. ...

Hi Willy, Welcome! Another newbie here. Glad for your diagnosis. I was diagnosed by fate. I thought I was constipated, scheduled a colonoscopy, but...