I've been feeling 'heavy' and a bit bloated, tought that I was gaining weight...but no pain, cramps etc...I've also been going nuts and eating a bit of everything that I haven't really eaten in the last 5 yrs...kind of like going to the circus; peanuts, popcorn, green beans, peas, oranges etc..pretty much every single veggie that I have missed all of these last years...
I've had a reasonable output but was amazed at how well the popcorn and peas digested and went through me...till this morning
At 8 am all of those wonderful fibers decided to all come out at the same time...
I have had about a gallon so far...and have discovered last week's popcorn, peas, corn etc...it must have been stuck up there some where and been building up slowly over the last couple of weeks...but now it is all coming out...chunk by chunk...yuck!
Plucking my tube every 2 mins...that'll teach me to think that I am super-girl-gut!
Warning...never eat popcorn, green beans, peas and chunky peanut butter and oranges all in the same week!
Sharon

It will help to flush out your pouch with a syringe full of water, push the water in and pull the syringe back again to pull things out of the pouch, if it doesn't move; then move around the catheter alittle until the water comes back into the syringe. You will pull these fiberous foods out. Take the syringe out of the catheter when you can get them to come out of the catheter on there own or are stuck on the end of the syringe. Keep doing this until you get your pouch cleaned out. If you can't get water to come back into the syringe, it could mean you have plugged holes in the catheter, then you have to remove the catheter and clean out the holes. Re-insert the catheter and keep doing this with the syringe full of water. I usually use around a total of 8 to 12 ozs of water in a cup, with 40 cc in the syringe at a time to flush out the pouch. This works well for me, and it helps get fiberous items out of the pouch faster so you don't have to keep dealing with it everytime you intubate.

No, it isn't a good idea to eat too many hard to digest foods at one time. Those fiberous foods will sit in your pouch until they digest or you get them out by intubating.

I've been doing this for years, and it is good to clean out the pouch too.

Remember to chew, chew, chew, drink, drink, drink!

Thanks Jasmine,
I irrigate my pouch every day, use 60cc a min of 2 or 3 times unless I am drinking prune juice but the other day, I irrigated 30-40 xs in a space of 4 hrs....used litres of water but it just kept coming...I was amazed....doesn't usually happen to me....I am an old hand at this stuff but boy was it freaky...stuff that I had eaten 10 days earlier was blocking up the tube...
Fine now...spent the weekend eating carbs and easy foods...
No more fibers for a while
Sharon