Advice please!

wish I knew! Get to a WOC nurse asap! Even if they can't see you right away they should return your call and maybe tell you what is going on.

Gee, Eric,I wonder if this is peristomal pyodermal gangrenosum. It is not common, almost exclusive to IBD, and often misdiagnosed. Hopefully, it is not.

Here is a link:

http://jama.jamanetwork.com/ar...spx?articleid=193099

Jan

Just saw Dr Cohens fellow (a blonde Aussie, SO cute! He made me feel better just looking at him!), it was a bleed. The tip of my stoma has been rubbing against the plastic lip of my flange, cutting it. He said it must have been bleeding for months as it was quite the large bump. He lanced it, treated it with silver nitrate, and told me to keep a close eye on it. If it gets infected I'm screwed, so I'm watching it closely. Was kind of gross, when he lanced it, blood spurt everywhere! Thankfully, it doesn't really hurt, just burning a bit. He told me this is a very common thing, but I should have saw him sooner, problem is, my stoma hangs down (it's quite long, about 2 1/2 inches) and the bleed was on the underside, so I never noticed it until I was cleaning it yesterday. I'm still a stoma virgin, guess I have a lot to learn. But why is it every time I see something like that my brain goes right to cancer? Probably because once was enough, guess, deep down, I'm paranoid, and terrified, it will come back, lousy brain, D'OH!!!!

Cheers,
Eric

That's a relief! I thought you were talking about the skin and the stoma having problems.

Jan

Sorry Eric, but the virgin statement has me in stitches. Only you would say that. I am happy everything is ok though. Take care Mr. Virgin. LOL

So glad you got it worked out!

Cheers!

Eric,

I had the same problem when I first got Wee Willie. (I did have pyoderma, but that's a different story). Wee Willie is like yours, he hangs down and was getting cut on the sharp edge of the wafer where I'd cut it to shape.. My stoma nurse changed me onto the Convatec moldable wafers and that solved the problem as no sharp edges.

Love and hugs

Shell