Experiences with

Soma

I am on oxy and was on soma but now after 5 years they tell me that rules have changed and they don't go together. Is anyone having the same issues with pain?

In tetanus, the neurotoxin is internalized into signaling endosomes and transported retrogradely to the neuronal soma, interfering with the release of neurotransmitters, notably glycine and gamma-aminobutyric acid, blocking inhibitory impulses(5).

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Hi everyone! I am considering a reversal surgery if I remain in remission (OC, one year post surgery). I really want to go ahead with it but am seriously terrified! Any advice?Also my stoma is active almost all the time, even whilst taking iron supplement which is a bit constipation? Going on my first

Hi all - I know I should know this from my hospital ideally but I haven’t been told and I can’t get hold of anyone. I’m having surgery on Monday for stage 4 endo excision at a BSGE centre. Undoing all adhesions, excision, possible loss of tubes, removing large bilateral endometriomas and possible

I am 74 and have an extremely sluggish bowel, as well as a lifelong very sweet tooth. I've recently been definitively diagnosed specifically with IMO. I'm struggling and am heading pretty inexorably towards an ileostomy. to be situated right at the ileocaecal junction. With an ileostomy I understand

Advise please had in last 2years carboplatin and paxo two lots 6 sessions 3 lots surgery stoma hysterectomy any advice on just carboplatin 2 hour sessions as its now spread to nodules hair just started to grow back slowly wondering if side effects will be as severe with 2 hours instead

Thank you everyone for your helpful replies this perhaps needs addressing in the training of security staff at airports so they may understand the venerability we sometimes feel if we happen to have a stoma. The experience you had in Spain sounded absolutely horrendous. Once again thanks. Debbie

I just wondered if I was overreacting about my recent incident going through customs at Birmingham airport. After putting my luggage through x ray I stood in front of the X-ray machine and was pulled to the side to be searched/patted down. You can imagine I had to explain that I had an ileostomy and

Hi all, hope you are enjoying the sun. This is a bit of a long post, so please bear with me and I hope you could give me some advice. I’ve been in hospital 5 times over the past 8 months due to , sepsis and severe diverticulitis flare and perforations in the intestines. I have just been discharged

Dear all, We are delighted that our next Members Series online session will be on Wednesday 26th March from 11:00am -12:00pm on the topic of 'Living with a stoma'. Unlike our clinical webinars, these sessions are hosted by members of our Ovacome community, who deliver the session based on their own

I have 2 stomas and I am really struggling to manage the colostomy as I reduce the steroids. Every time I change everything goes haywire with my output. Does anyone on here have a stoma? I haven't met anyone so far trying to manage a colostomy (or an ileostomy) together with PMR. I would really love

Has anyone used procalopride laxative. I have slow gut motility and cant go to the toilet at all without a laxative. Dulcolax usually works but I feel so nauseous and shivering on it. I have to use a stimulant laxative as nothing else helps. I have been prescribed procalopride which is a big step

Hi ladies, I just need to rant. I’ve been on my current care pathway for 75 weeks now, referred from GP in September 2023 after a TVU showed adenomyosis and a 1cm cyst which they assumed was an endometrioma. First gynae appointment wasn’t until late March 2024, they sent me for an MRI scan in April

Hi i have not posted in a while. Loads of changes of having to live with stoma. Nearly 9yrs ago, my journey started. Always having problems with leaking bag, tried so many alternatives and different resources. Still to this day problems. Not only leaking but over 2yrs I have been in a server pain.

At 31, a total hysterectomy wasn’t on my bingo card but it is what it is! Anyone got any advice, pointers, things to bear in mind that they want to share? I’m also having a bowel resection plus possible stoma fitting (they won’t know the extent of the damage until they get in there) plus a review of

I had my first laparoscopy in November where I was diagnosed with severe endometriosis and told I had endometriosis and my ovary was also stuck to my bowel. After my surgery the surgeon said I would probably need a stoma and a hysterectomy and then left the room! Since then my gynaecology follow up

Hi I was diagnosed with osteoporosis in February this year after having a bone density scan. I was just about to start taking ibandronic acid when I found out I had colorectal cancer so I was worried about side effects of the ibandronic acid and didn't take it until November.I was given an ileostomy

Hi everyone.Ralph had trachy changed again yesterday (Thursday), a few later than normal, to avoid being due at Christmas. Consultant pleased he's capping 7 hours a day, but now wants him to get to capping all his waking hours if he can. NOT to do it while sleeping in case he stops breathing. Next appointment

Hello, my Dad had emergency surgery yesterday due to a complete blockage of the bowel caused by a lesion. This is a complete shock to us as although he had been feeling ill for a week or so and Gp was just starting investigation, we didnt even know he had a lesion.They had to remove most of his large