rectal mucus

khayman1
khayman1 Member Posts: 5
edited March 2014 in Colorectal Cancer #1
anyone out there have a colostomy and having a problem everyday with rectal mucus.I have to where a pad it is so bad?

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  • coloCan
    coloCan Member Posts: 1,944 Member
    #2
    Whatever stuff I had exiting rectum after colostomy
    was not that much or often and ceased rather quickly. Speak with your surgeon. Hope all ends well...steve
  • John23
    John23 Member Posts: 2,122 Member
    #3
    Mucus Yuckus Stuffolus


    Yup, that's the medical term for it.

    Ileostomates suffer from it as well. It's normal, but it usually doesn't
    last too long with all that much output.

    It might depend on how much colon was left in? I only have about
    a foot of colon, so the amount is minimal. In our past life, all that
    mucus wasn't noticed, since it kinda' got mixed into the other stuff,
    and who looks, right? But now.... now that we don't go like our
    petty human counterparts, we see only the stuff that usually got
    mixed into our fabulous rectal recipe automatically.

    It never hurts to ask your doc, he might want to take a look to make sure
    your **** isn't going to fall off in the middle of a Walmart shopping spree..

    Like.... Who needs -that-?
  • msccolon
    msccolon Member Posts: 1,917 Member
    #4
    John23 said:

    Mucus Yuckus Stuffolus


    Yup, that's the medical term for it.

    Ileostomates suffer from it as well. It's normal, but it usually doesn't
    last too long with all that much output.

    It might depend on how much colon was left in? I only have about
    a foot of colon, so the amount is minimal. In our past life, all that
    mucus wasn't noticed, since it kinda' got mixed into the other stuff,
    and who looks, right? But now.... now that we don't go like our
    petty human counterparts, we see only the stuff that usually got
    mixed into our fabulous rectal recipe automatically.

    It never hurts to ask your doc, he might want to take a look to make sure
    your **** isn't going to fall off in the middle of a Walmart shopping spree..

    Like.... Who needs -that-?

    LMAO!
    "It never hurts to ask your doc, he might want to take a look to make sure
    your **** isn't going to fall off in the middle of a Walmart shopping spree.." yea, then you'd find yourself on that website, people of walmart! Who needs THAT?!!!
    mary
  • John23
    John23 Member Posts: 2,122 Member
    #5
    msccolon said:

    LMAO!
    "It never hurts to ask your doc, he might want to take a look to make sure
    your **** isn't going to fall off in the middle of a Walmart shopping spree.." yea, then you'd find yourself on that website, people of walmart! Who needs THAT?!!!
    mary

    Yeah, really....


    By the way "khayman1", the phenomena of emitting squishie, smellie
    stuff out of there doesn't cease. The Mucus Yuckus Stuffolus continues
    being produced, since it's a byproduct of a normal working system.

    As long as you have the best part (ok, I'm fond of that part... sue me)
    still hanging around and it's alive, there will be mucus produced and
    it has to go someplace...

    And yes, sometimes it can smell like old window putty or worse,
    and it will make you feel like you're going to have a natural bowel
    movement, but alas... it'll prolly be only a small ball of putty-like
    smelly substance. Eeeeeuie - gag. And that's it.

    Some docs will tell you to use one of those "Fleet enemas"
    every so often, just to clean junk buildup out... and some
    never tell you anything. And some ostomates never flush,
    and some do often... I really don't know if it matters at all,
    when we figure the whole scheme of things.

    Bottom line I guess, is to not end up on "People of Walmart.com",
    or worse (Is nothing sacred?).

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