Noise control

[Saa]

If you are still bothered by noise, I’ve been doing some improvements on my muffler invention. Send me a pm and I will answer back with more info on it. The little foam ball, some neoprene material and Velcro are all you need. It costs about $3.00 to make one.

Not to be tacky but I can fart with freedom and glee and nobody knows it except me. Works great.

Nancy

Hi, can u help me with this. Its fir my brother, i would love for him to go out again and enjoy life. How is this muffler made please

[Shamrock4806]

Look on this forum for my list from my nutritionist about what foods etc cause gas.

[lolapergola]

Nancy , where do get the neoprene material from ? do you wrap it all over the half foam ball ? is it the velcro that holds it on ? perhaps you could post a pic?
thanks
Lola

[Shamrock4806]

I just follow this list from my nutritionist

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[Anowi]

If you are still bothered by noise, I’ve been doing some improvements on my muffler invention. Send me a pm and I will answer back with more info on it. The little foam ball, some neoprene material and Velcro are all you need. It costs about $3.00 to make one.

Not to be tacky but I can fart with freedom and glee and nobody knows it except me. Works great.

Nancy

Hello Nancy,
Could you please share info on your muffler invention. I would like to make one for my boyfriend.

Anowi

[ns47]

Hi everybody.

I’ve been away from the board for a long while and didn’t know people were asking about the muffler. I’ll answer tomorrow with a picture and instructions. Nobody ever hears my noises. That thing works like a charm. It costs so little to make, too.

And the neoprene you can get by buying a laptop sleeve and cut it to the size you need.

Hang on. It’s late at night and I’ll be back sometime today - Saturday - with more info!

I’ve missed these discussions for a long time. So busy with work and family issues and all. Getting old, too. Yuck on that. But it beats the alternative!

Mt Crapsuvius sends greetings!

Nancy

[ns47]

I’m back. Here are instructions. Pictures to follow.

1. Cut a little foam ball like a nerf ball or crush ball into a hockey puck shape from the middle of the ball. It should be about a quarter to a half inch thick. The material in that kind of ball compresses. It can’t be a hard ball.

2. Cut two circular pieces of a material like neoprene that is very soft and easily pliable. The size of the two pieces of material is about a half inch larger than the hockey puck sized material you cut using the ball.

3. Sew or Velcro the two pieces of material either with or without the ball inside it and leave an opening where you don’t sew the neoprene pieces together that is about one quarter the size of the resulting circle of material.

Doing that will allow you to take the piece of the ball out and replace it or to wash the cover you just made. Once you have sewn the pieces or velcroed them, put the ball into the pouch opening for the ball cut into a hockey puck shape that you just finished.

4. Put the resulting Mt Crapsuvius muffler over your appliance and stoma between the bag and your clothes. The neoprene makes it so that the muffler you made is not likely to slide against your underwear or whatever you have on between the bag/appliance and your clothing.

I wear jeans almost all the time and they are rough and so the muffler doesn’t move much if at all. I also almost always wear a belt with jeans not so much to hold my jeans up or to hold the muffler in place but as protection for the stoma. I often do lots of things that could cause injury and the belt with my jeans just makes me feel better about that possibility.

I can imagine that if you wear silky underwear or clothing otherwise thst is slippery that the muffler might slide. You could fix that by putting Velcro on the outside of the muffler against the clothing that is not slippery with a piece of Velcro on that non slippery clothing. I don’t wear anything silky or slippery for the most part. But sometimes I do, and on those occasions I still have not experienced slipping of the muffler. A silky shirt hasn’t been a problem either when it is tucked in. Maybe you will have as good luck with that.

But here’s a point of caution. Sometimes I am so comfortable with it that I forget it is there. And I’ve dropped it in a toilet and so chuck it out. This is why I make several of these in one sitting so that I have spares. I have several of these mufflers. One time I lost one in a McDonald’s bathroom and didn’t realize it was gone. It must have fallen on the floor. It was my favorite one and sewn the best. I miss that one. But I re-sewed another that wasn’t done as well and now I have a new favorite one.

Unless your bag leaks or you sweat a lot, you won’t have to wash the muffler often because it stays clean. If the ball loses its elasticity, just cut a new one and replace it in the neoprene pocket for it that you made. I use a black neoprene material but you could use anything you like. For example, one time in a pinch when I forgot my muffler when I was on a trip I took the inserts out of a sports bra and cut them in a circle, sewed them together with a hole for the ball and had just as much use out of that as with neoprene or a similar material. For the neoprene, I used an old iPad sleeve I got years ago at Best Buy. That thing served its purpose for an iPad and now it has a more noble one.

Another thing, a big glass or coffee cup could be used to make the circles of material you need. Just turn it upside down and trace the shape with a pencil. You make the muffler the size you want. Mine goes over the edge of the plastic opening on the appliance. So it’s not very big. I use Hollister two piece closed end pouches most of the time and sometimes Sensura mio one piece closed end one time use appliance. Not that it matters, but sometimes Hollister makes me itch and so I switch to the mio for a day and the itch is gone. I prefer Hollister o all the others I have tried. And I’ve tried all of them. But I see no reason the ball and neoprene muffler wouldn’t work with any of them since it goes outside and on the appliance and against your outer clothes or between the appliance and your underwear.

I have a colostomy that I irrigate and so I have little to no output other than gas through the day. But on fortunately rare occasions when I do have output outside the irrigation process, the muffler still works and it muffles the noise from that too.

This really does work like a charm and I estimate that it costs less than $3 usd to make each one. The little crush balls I buy at Publix grocery store. The neoprene material you can get in a cheap iPad cover. And then a needle and thread, a pair of scissors, and you are good to go (or to fart proudly, as Ben Franklin said). Out of a crush ball you can get two hockey puck shaped pieces of foam that are an ideal size. Out of an iPad sleeve you can get three or four covers for the foam ball inserts. And the material for the outside of the hockey puck shape from the ball also absorbs sound and it is not uncomfortable.

I will send pictures shortly. So hang on.

Nancy

[ns47]

Ok. So here you go.

Well, the pictures won’t load. I’ll try putting them on a website and direct you to that. Hang on. Maybe a picture from a text message will work. I’ll send one to my brother and see whether that will do it by copying the picture. If not, then website. I have several of those. Back soon.

Nancy

[ns47]

Another thing. With this, you can eat whatever you want and you don’t have to limit because of gas!! So, no worries on that. Broccoli can be your friend.

[lolapergola]

I can't wait to see these pictures !! I am useless at making anything other than a mess !!

[ns47]

Go to my personal/work website. It’s at Wordpress. Here is the link. https://stanlick.wordpress.com/gallery ... appliance/.

The first picture is a generic foam ball. Looks like a soccer ball. Cut it in half.

Then cut the rounded end off to make a hockey puck shape as thick as you want.

The next picture is the ball cut in half.

The next one is of a blue foam ball cut into hockey puck shape. I keep lots of them in a drawer for replacements.

The next is the finished muffler with a neoprene cover. One of the mufflers shows the ball inside. It is yellow. The other has a brown ball in it that was originally a football crush ball. You can see that I sewed it with an opening to get the little hockey puck transformed crush ball out of it and then put it or another one in if I want to wash the cover. In a pinch or if you just like it that way, you could just cut the ball and use that over the stoma with bag covering the stoma with the hockey puck shaped foam against your clothes. It will kind of stick there. It works best with a cover, at least from my experience. And you can do covers that are the color of your clothes in case you tuck your shirt in and then it won’t show even by accident. Nobody sees mine.

The last one is the kind of neoprene cover in general but I haven’t used this one because I put my iPad in it. You will see cat hair on the iPad sleeve. The cat decided it would be a good idea to sit on it. The actual neoprene cover I used no longer exists because I made a bunch of covers out of it. It was black and smooth padded - but thin - neoprene material.

If you like philosophy you’ll see also my stuff for work there at the site. I haven’t updated it in a while but this gives me a reason to do that since I’m logged in and actually remembered the password. I can imagine students are going to wonder why this odd page is there. I will tell them.

Nancy

[lolapergola]

Those pictures were great , thanks .

[lolapergola]

Hi , Nancy very kindly sent me one her items to try .It didn't work for me but it may work for you .I think when I get gas in comes out in big rush ,I doubt anything would be able to stop that sound ! I hope others give it a try and maybe you'll succeed where I failed .Thanks Nancy x

[Shamrock4806]

Diet and perhaps Beano.

But that's a pretty cool muffler there Nancy.

[lolapergola]

Thanks Shamrock , but I already use Beano and eat a bland diet .I've always had a noisy stoma but I do wear Coloplast 1 piece plug (now not manufactured ) for important events !
Lola.