Hi ladies... Just found out I'm pregnant after our first round of IVF! YAY!!! I have a temporary loop ileo, and a pretty badly behaved one at that, though I've finally gotten where I can get 2 days wear fairly consistently. I'm thrilled to be expecting but nervous about managing the ileo. I know at some point I'll need to switch my system; I'm currently in a Convatec convexit precut convex barrier and I use 1/2 an adapt barrier ring around the cut hole. I remember my WOC nurse a while back saying I would need to switch to a flexible flat wafer when the belly starts growing. Just wondering when I might expect to need to change it up. Will I inevitably have a period of leakage/skin breakdown to know I need to switch? Or do you know just from applying it that the convex won't go on anymore?
Also, after childbirth do you switch right back to what you were in before? I imagine you have to change the wafer immediately, right? I know people have done this and been fine, so I know I will too, just wondering exactly how it all works.
Also, after childbirth do you switch right back to what you were in before? I imagine you have to change the wafer immediately, right? I know people have done this and been fine, so I know I will too, just wondering exactly how it all works.
I remember your story well and I try not to get too scared by it! Do you have any particular advice based on your obstruction experience? I guess if it was due to an adhesion there was no preventing it, and I have pretty gnarly scar tissue according to all my op reports... oh well, if it happens it happens. Thanks for the reassurance about changing systems... hope everything will go smoothly as you say!
), but I worry more about my husband. He is extremely fearful about all the horrible things he thinks might happen, and if I ended up hospitalized with an obstruction, well I'm pretty sure he would totally decompensate.