Shopping Online For Ostomy Products

So my life has been filled with misfortune from pretty much the day I was born. And to make matters worse, I was forced to get a life-changing surgery that was necessary in order to save my life about 6 months ago. Honestly, I was just about ready to let myself die and let my family collect the insurance money and buy a nice Mercedes, but apparently that was not an option for anyone else.

The thing about my surgery is that it wasn’t just the type of thing that you can recover from and then get back to normal life. I had to have an ostomy put in, which basically means that for the rest of my life all my stool and urine will be funnelled out my stomach through a stoma and collected in an ostomy pouch that it is connected to. Pretty gross huh? Well, I am here to tell you that it definitely is gross, and I am truly sorry for anyone that has ever had an ostomy before me, because it is just not a fun time.

To make things worse, I now am tasked with the eternal responsibility of buying myself ostomy supplies so that I don’t end up getting my stoma output all over the place and that sort of thing.

The annoying part about ostomy supplies is that the doctors are not all that helpful when it comes to getting you the supplies that you need. Of course, after my surgery, I was sent home with a decent amount of supplies like various ostomy pouches and accessories, but this was only supposed to last me for the first few weeks of the recovery process. Then, it was supposed to be up to me to find the right ostomy products that I would need to continue purchasing for the rest of my life. What an annoyance.

The other thing about ostomy supplies is that it doesn’t always work the same for everyone. What I mean by this is that not all ostomy pouches fit well or will fit your specific needs and preferences. It actually can take quite some time to find the ostomy products that you like before you can finally feel confident enough to order the same products again and again. And oh, did I mention that they barely have any type of ostomy products in most stores?

That’s right, the market of ostomy products exists almost exclusively online. You would think that there would at least be some random ostomy supplies in most superstores or pharmacies, but nope. I actually had to travel to at least 10 different stores before I realized that I just was not going to find the selection that I needed for my ostomy products. That is why I turned to the internet for the rest of my ostomy needs, because the doctors informed me that the internet may be my best bet for finding the supplies that I needed.

So if you have been in the market for ostomy supplies and accessories but have been having really bad luck at in-person stores trying to find the products that you need, my suggestion is to just start looking things up online. You would be surprised to know that you can pretty much find anything online these days, and usually it is very reasonably priced!