Archive for the 'ileostomy' Category

Hot flashes

« 10 June 2008 | 9:00 | colectomy, ileostomy, recovery | No Comments »

I know it’s weird for a twenty-five year old male to have hot flashes. But a couple of weeks ago (about two months after my surgery), I started having these periods where I would just have to stop and wait for a minute while whatever mental thing it was passed. When it first started, these [...]



Baby wipes

« 9 June 2008 | 9:00 | ileostomy, ostomy bags, ostomy care | 1 Comment »

This may seem like a weird post title, but since I have had my ostomy, I have used baby wipes during bag changes to clean up and dry everything before putting the new bag on. I have an awesome wife. She is very big on cloth diapering, so while she was making a set of [...]



Ostomy Bag Care

« 8 June 2008 | 17:38 | ileostomy, ostomy bags | 11 Comments »

I have had my ileosotomy for a little over three months now. I’m still experimenting with various things to try to figure out the best way to do things. I am going to be trying other types of bags, but out of the Hollister products I have tried, I have settled on the one piece [...]



Beginning a new blog

« 18 May 2008 | 21:08 | colectomy, family, general, ileostomy, ulcerative colitis | 2 Comments »

Welcome to OstomyMan.com. My name is Jared and I’m just getting started on this blog. I had Ulcerative Colitis for nearly a decade before I decided to have a colectomy and an ileostomy. While I had Ulcerative Colitis, I can honestly say that I tried just about everything to get and keep it under control. [...]