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Hi Emma, Hello and best wishes! There are a lot of tricky things to work out, I know LL

Thank you, everybody - I will admit here to a couple of challenges - like almost forgetting my car keys in a public bathroom stall because I was juggl...

Way to go, Liza!

I would love to know how to make angel pie!

Erin, I found it really helpful to read your post. My stoma is 17 months old today and so still pretty new. I have been using the Hollister 2-piece an...

@veganostomy I use just one small squirt, which I estimate to be perhaps 20 drops. Maybe I will try just letting 10 drops fall into the bag and see if...

So I am the only person gets this charcoal-gray-to-black that sometimes looks like black mold to wherever the M9 reaches in my bag? I had some scary ...

@Hannah Hannah, I think this is an interesting question. Does your mother use M9 drops? I have suspected that they turn my output black - not complai...

My colostomy is inconsistent sometimes, too, and I haven’t been able to really figure it out. Even its inconsistency is inconsistent, because sometime...

Happiest of birthdays 🎂 to you, little 🌹

Good luck, Marcie - thinking of you.

I know everybody is different but for me, having just a little air in the bag seems to help with my pancaking situation.

Oh, what a lot to go through. So sorry to learn this; hope you feel much better soon.

@Richard Hi Richard, I am a cancer patient also (God bless you, it is not easy) and have had my stoma for over 15 months. I deal with pancaking that i...

Hi Bill, I mean the waxy ring under the flange/plate (so I was meaning preventing links at the top, actually). . I think most people use them, but I h...

Hi Brenda, I use the Hollister with the Velcro lock-and-roll, and the Velcro has never failed (my ostomy is 15 months old). Once in awhile, if I want ...

Thinking of you! 🙏🏼

Many thanks for the suggestions, Eric. I am working on them, and am now extra careful not to let the Adapt drip into the seal at all when I change. An...

Thanks, Eric. So, two times in the last year the coupling just separated - I was at home, thank goodness. The other two times I thought I could smell...