I've always worn an abdominal binder & I have a sp cath. The Dale 4 panel binder. Lindaf
----- Original Message ----- From: "Michelle Kephart" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc: "Joan Anglin" <[email protected]>, "quad-list" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, April 7, 2015 7:49:26 AM Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] Quad Belly I'm curious about this "girdle" too. What is it exactly? Would it bother an SP catheter? I wore a binder for almost a year until it started to irritate my skin and cause more problems. Michelle On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 9:29 PM, < [email protected] > wrote: How in the world do you get a girdle on? That's gotta take a lot of turning & tugging. What do you women think of Spanx? Just as hard? dianna <blockquote> I am definitely happy that I’m a female if I have to be a quad! That is why I wear “a girdle”, so I don’t have to have an apparent quad gut. J . I was not happy with binders as they would roll and pinch and cause more problems than it cured, and the body suit that I wear is smooth and doesn’t hurt my skin. We can’t really Eliminate our bellies, because it is just those darned intestines refusing to stay in place inside our bodies when we sit up. But we can force them back inside. LOL Joan -----Original Message----- From: Joan Anglin < [email protected] > To: 'Larry Willis' < [email protected] >; quad-list < [email protected] > Sent: Mon, Apr 6, 2015 12:23 pm Subject: RE: [QUAD-L] Quad Belly I am definitely happy that I’m a female if I have to be a quad! That is why I wear “a girdle”, so I don’t have to have an apparent quad gut. J . I was not happy with binders as they would roll and pinch and cause more problems than it cured, and the body suit that I wear is smooth and doesn’t hurt my skin. We can’t really Eliminate our bellies, because it is just those darned intestines refusing to stay in place inside our bodies when we sit up. But we can force them back inside. LOL Joan From: Larry Willis [ mailto:[email protected] ] Sent: Monday, April 06, 2015 7:01 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Fwd: [QUAD-L] Quad Belly Same here, Greg. It makes me miserable and even hard to breathe. It feels like my food sticks where my gut folds. I hate it but don't know how to eliminate it, other than starvation. Larry Willis Retired and proud of it Begin forwarded message: <blockquote> Resent-From: [email protected] From: greg < [email protected] > Date: April 5, 2015 at 11:09:34 PM EDT To: < [email protected] > Subject: [QUAD-L] Quad Belly </blockquote> <blockquote> After my stoma my quad belly went down a lot, but it sure came back. Bigger than ever. Even a binder does nothing for it. When laying on my back, my stomach looks pretty flat. But once I sit up... it just flop out. It actually gets uncomfortable. Exercising really does nothing for that area, since I have no muscle control there. I am trying to twist and do what bending forward that I can. Diet does not seem to help, the rest of my body it average. Greg </blockquote> </blockquote>
