Sample Review

I guess that for a blog about Crohn's disease that I am not doing too well considering two of my first three posts are about ostomy supplies rather than Crohn's.  But while it is fresh in my mind I figured I would give my official review of the new Coloplast Sensura Xpro.

This review should be prefaced by the fact that I am five months pregnant and the size and shape of my abdomen may play a part in why I did not like the Xpro.  My ET nurse recommended that I go to a larger sized cut-to-fit wafer to accommodate my expanding stoma.  Because of the size of my stoma I have long required a wafer with convexity.  The problem with going to the larger sized wafer is that the convexity of the wafer is not effective.  I'm not sure if anyone else has noticed that the cut-to-fit area gives a little more that the rest of the wafer.  The give in the cut-to-fit area rendered the convexity useless, with my wafer lasting only about four hours.

On a Crohn's note, I have my second trimester appointment with my new GI doctor at Vanderbilt this week.  As a new patient, she was chomping at the bit to run every test under the sun on me back this winter but that all came to a halt when we found out I was pregnant.  I have to admit it has left me a bit anxious myself, not knowing the true state of my disease as I head in to the second half of my pregnancy.  Every time I have a pain I am convinced that my Crohn's is flaring.