Unlike your anus, your stoma doesn’t have muscles or nerve endings. That means you can’t control when you move your bowels. Instead, you will place a colostomy bag over the stoma to receive ...

A woman with a stoma bag was left shaken after being 'assaulted and abused' for using a disabled toilet at an Adele concert.

A woman with a stoma bag is calling for more awareness of invisible illnesses after describing being "assaulted and abused" when she used a disabled toilet at an Adele concert. Jessica Storey ...

Bethany Platt’s searing anguish when her boyfriend Daniel Barlow walked in unannounced and saw her stoma bag for the first time was positively primal. Her self-loathing and humiliation were ...

A stoma is a hole (opening) made in the skin in front of your neck to allow you to breathe. It is at the base of your neck. Through this hole, air enters and leaves your windpipe (trachea) and lungs.

Now she has a permanent stoma and ostomy bag, and despite some initial fears says the procedure has been life-changing. Charlie was initially diagnosed with ulcerative colitis - a long-term ...

Riley, aged six, from Melksham, had the stoma - a bag which removes waste from his body - fitted after developing complications following his birth. He plans to walk 10km (6.2 miles) to raise ...

Destiny Pinto was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis near the start of college in July 2021, after which she heavily relied on compression gear to relieve the pain she felt throughout her body.

A woman with a stoma bag was left shaken after being 'assaulted and abused' for using a disabled toilet at an Adele concert. Jessica Storey, 28, who has Crohn's disease, found herself becoming ...

Coronation Street's Bethany Platt, portrayed by Lucy Fallon, suffered a horrifying ordeal when her stoma bag leaked in front of a crowd. The character was left with a perforated bowel and life ...

A woman with a stoma bag is calling for more awareness of invisible illnesses after describing being "assaulted and abused" when she used a disabled toilet at an Adele concert. Jessica Storey, 28, ...