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What are your burning questions?

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If you could choose a topic to discuss on the Ostomy Lifestyle forum, what would it be? What issues do you think need to be highlighted more to the ostomy community and wider?

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I think people need to be made more aware about preventing hernias since there is a high risk of developing one with a new stoma I developed one through my own lack of knowledge and experience

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extreme depression from living with an ileostomy for 47 yrs.

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