Mixing a barrier ring with paste

[Shamrock4806]

So I've been having this problem where the inside of the convex wafer bag was rubbing on the top of my stoma causing a slight irritation and a graneoulma was forming. I had a graneoulma on my peristomal skin next to the stoma and made it go away by adding more paste and a piece of cut out from the wafer hole to avoid the wafer hitting it, so I said to myself 'well why not combine the two?"

So I dug into my old supplies and found a box of thick rings, stretched one out and placed it on the back of the wafer about 1/4" away from the cut wafer hole and up to the 2" edge of my convex bubble. Then squirted my normal three bead rings of paste around the stoma like I normally do and sandwiched the whole mess together.

Sure enough it worked marvelously, now neither graneoulma are being irritated and hopefully as a bonus the gap between the stoma and the ring will act as a holder to keep the thick paste from running which it does do that in our high 80° F heat. I use extra large barrier strips around the wafer adhesive to better hold the entire mess in place.

Note that I do have a half flush stoma in a belly fold which has been most difficult to address but as time progresses I am getting better at being more problem solving creative about these various little issues. Paste has its attributes as being a great unevenness filler and not irritating granuloma's unlike something more solid will, but too thick paste has its own problems, like running.

So anyway I thought I'd share this little tip to let lurkers know that combining a ring and paste does work if they find themselves needing a bit more height.

[Shamrock4806]

Okay going all the way around the stoma with the ring didn't work out as well as expected.

Since my stoma is high on one side and both graneoulmas are on the same side, I instead cut a section of ring to put into the belly fold side of the wafer bubble edge to keep the wafer off both. Three bead rings of paste on the skin like before.

[Shamrock4806]

Didn't work, something else was wrong.

I think the skin decided to shed big time. Only got a day outta the wafer. Bummer.