Jade and Rhiannon explain how their stoma bags - which collects their faces - impact on intimacy and their sex lives ...

After years of suffering from a painful bowel disease, the fashion project manager chose surgery that also left her with a permanent stoma. "It sounds crazy, but honestly, it saved my life," she ...

This contrast was not just disheartening – it was alienating. It reinforced the notion that LGBTQ+ patients are an ...

Keiran had his first stoma operation in May last year, while he needed a second surgery in December to completely remove his colon after complications continued. Despite his fears around such a ...

An ostomy is a surgically created opening on your abdomen to drain stool. It is the end of the intestine that can be seen on the skin of your belly. There are two types of ostomies: ileostomy and ...

Ulcerative colitis meant Samantha Leckie needed surgery to create a stoma. Here, she shares how this journey helped her to love her body. I call myself a real-life Barbie. Not because I have ...

"If we don't talk about it, if we don't teach people, how are they going to know to accept us for who we are?" says Jessica Grossman, who founded the nonprofit Uncover Ostomy Jessica Grossman was ...

How to provide care and support for people with a stoma, including types of urinary and faecal stomas and recognising and managing common stoma complications. This is a Self-assessment article and ...