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I'm 22 year old male who just had the 2nd stage 3 weeks ago. I had an end stoma for a year thanks to colitis. It worked great though. Now I'm having issues with the bags leaking and it doesn't help that my incision split apart and didn't heal properly. 

I have home care nurses changing the dressing everyday. Its a pretty big wound cause I had open surgery.

Anyways my issue right now is stool keeps going into the non active part of the ileostomy, and I feel most of it is going into it rather than my bag. Possibly another wrong fitted bag? Its lasted two days so that's a record cause most of my bags only last a couple hours. Anyways I called my surgeon and funny thing is, he didn't get back to me till I was sitting in the ER for the stool cause I was worried it would cause an infection while the jpouch heals. 

He laughed and said the stool coming through is normal, as long as there's no blood and I'm not vomiting or have a high fever its normal. So I left the ER. This happened today btw. 

So my question is, anyone else have experience with this? Did it affect your recovery for the 3rd stage? Thanks in advance.

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Just to be clear: is this a loop ileostomy? Is your concern that too much of the stool is bypassing the loop ileostomy and coming out from the anus?

If the above is correct then you needn't worry about an infection. Your J-pouch may not be getting quite as much rest as intended, but it’s likely to be just fine.

Good luck with that wound healing.

Hi this happened to me after the second step. The nurse told me that the volume of stool is still less than if you don't have the bag at all. It is good that not all of the volume goes into the j-pouch yet so it still recovers.

After the second step I needed convex flanges instead of the flat ones. Without them I leaked like crazy and the disk park around the stoma didn't stick at all anymore. 

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