What foods someone with a stoma should and shouldn’t eat is a complex topic. Not aided in the slightest by the lack of advice often given to ostomates by healthcare professionals. In this post, I talk about my on/off relationships with food, through three stoma surgeries.

[…] have tried to control many aspects of my disease. My stress levels for example, and what I eat being the main two. I wanted to do everything within my power to prevent it from being worse than […]
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[…] more difficult during my first two-year stint with a stoma. Things such as not realising that a low residue diet was only supposed to be for the first six weeks following surgery, and thinking that I wasn’t allowed to squish my bag at all, resulting in me […]
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