The questions I was too embarrassed to ask about my stoma | by Rachel

Depending on the circumstances surrounding your stoma surgery, you may have a number of questions to ask. When the topic of pooing into a bag is concerned, some may be embarrassing to say out loud.

Having a stoma takes its toll on you both mentally and physically. Will it change how you are intimate? Will it affect your relationships? Will you be able to eat the same? What if it doesn’t have the desired result? If your surgery was planned, hopefully you have the space to ask such questions to your medical team pre-surgery. If it was an emergency surgery, you may have never heard of the word stoma, bringing many more questions. Here I share some of my own questions from my own personal perspective.

Will I smell?

Can I be intimate?

Will it affect my menstrual cycle?

With a loop ileostomy, will I still have output from my bottom?

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