Saff, it is boring and tiring. Are you on any medications that you feel help? Hope you can get your removal scheduled and everything settles afterwards. I will post when mine is scheduled, as well. Hopefully within the next 6 months. Kristinamel, welcome to the board! I can sometimes "pre-emptively" empty my pouch of all the stuff that's in it, and that leaves me feeling fairly confident for a few hours. If I could just hold it 'til I got to a bathroom, like it were regular poop, I'd be OK with it. However, the search for absorbable pads continues....