Poll, question time.

How long do you wear your wafer before changing it out?

chris went 4 days no longer even if he didn't need to, no chances taken

I can go 5-6 days before changing wafers

I go 4-5 days with my Convatec Moldable convex wafers. I could go longer but prefer not to.

Shell

5 - 8 ... If i play hockey or hot tub every night usually 5... If I am lazy closer to 8... not one leak in 7+ months with the new end illeo (there is the kiss of death LOL)

Jason I can beat that! Not one leak in over 3.5 YEARS!!!! (touching every wooden item within reach here!)

I DARE you to catch me up!


Shell

I go 5 days 5 nights and change the morning of the 6th day regardless if I need to.

Scott

Ok shell here is the bet ... Since we both jinxed ourselves, first one with the leak has to send the other a bottle of red wine LOL! 3.5 NICE!

Deal!

Cheers D-¦

Shell

I'm a 3 day person, but lately, if I haven't got any sign of a skin issue (no itching, etc...) I've been stretching to 4 days, mostly because I"m lazy. I do best with every 3 though.

Jason and Shell, I may beat you on the leak issue (I've never had a leak in 6 years BTW, other than when I forget to snap the two pieces together well enough)...I have to switch to flat wafers while pregnant and last time it was the 4th month when I switched. Well I'm getting bigger faster this time (only just 3 months) and haven't yet ordered the flat wafers...think I'll get around to it before my belly pops the convex wafer off???

I can go seven days before a change. Sometimes it just depends also on what I have been eating.I did learn something about my stoma(I don't have a name for it yet). I should never eat more than two homemade maccaroon cookies. This made things waaay too thick it hurt almost. I made Christmas cookies that I had never made and I don't think these will be on my list next year. They are too tempting.

i usually went 3-4 days. but always on sunday morning. i like to feel clean for church.

I go between 5 and 8 days more frequent in the summer. If I waited to long I get itchy around the tape and it drives me mad. I have the dreaded loop and have only had a very few leaks in 7 years.
Has anyone noticed lately, if they use convatec, that their two piece system is difficult to snap together? I don't know if it is the batch I received but when I am putting it on it takes so much pushing and awhile to get a tight seal.

Hi Karyn,
I don't use convatec but when I change with my 2-piece I put the bag on the waffer before I put the waffer on my skin. I don't like pushing the bag on my stomach when I change because if I push anything out of my stoma before the bag is sealed then chances are it will end up on me!

Scott

Kerry, although I don't use Convatec, I did get samples from them and did notice how hard it is to unsnap which deters me from using them.