Colostomy Bag Wearers

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Having been diagnosed with rectal cancer just over 5 year's ago, I had surgery to remove the tumour at Siriraj and I have been wearing a colostomy bag ever since. I prefer the 1 piece pouch against the 2 piece and up until 2008 had been using Coloplast's 'mc2000' . I found that the adhesive was often difficult to remove when changing bags and was not very kind to my skin causing it to be red raw.

However, I returned to the UK back in 2008 for a visit and whilst there I saw a stoma nurse who informed me that there were much better bags available to the 'mc2000' I'd been using which she said were obsolete in the UK. I have since been using Coloplast's "Sensura" which are far superior but I have to get them sent over from the UK as they are unavailable here in Thailand.

I have recently been back in Siriraj for another operation to remove a cancerous lump from my groin and whilst there I got my wife to take a list of Colostomy bag Companies to the Stoma nurse there. Dansac, Hollister, Convatec etc. It was a case of "Mai Me" to them all. The only 1 piece pouch they seem to have in Thailand is the Coloplast mc2000 (considered obsolete in the UK).

Why is Thailand so poorly served by the producers of Ostomy products? It can't be that there aren't people like myself with a stoma here in Thailand.