Additional "Good Stuff To Know"

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Latest News (April 2024): Just shipped six pucks. One was a special request for a newborn baby with a dual stoma. Parents and grand parents are ecstatic they'll now be able to control the leaking. Four pucks went to some Ostomy/Wound Care nurses at the University of Arizona's Cancer Center. They deal with 6-7 new ostomy patients PER DAY! "Our nurses think your device is great! Can't even tell you have it on." They're really looking forward to using their pucks on their newly-minted ostomy patients. Word is getting out folks, Barrier Press is starting to take off.  

Benefits I've Found from Having My Ostomy/Stoma: 

1: My bladder had the cancer and it's gone, I'm now cancer free!

2: I'm getting "full-nights" sleep back... ah... tis good to sleep all night long again. 

3: I never have that annoying "full bladder, gotta go pee!" feeling, I kinda like it.

4: "Hey, I'm still alive enjoying my life, much better than the alternative". 

No longer needing colon ostomy testers. I've altered my puck design to handle colon ostomy pudding-like or chunky output. Just buy one or two pucks and forget about leaks! 

Why the Barrier Press works so well.
The adhesive properties on barriers (disks, wafers, baseplates) are purposely designed to deteriorate after just a day or two once they get wet – yet they become as slippery (as snot), they swell up and literally PUSH themselves off your own skin… causing the very leaks they’re designed to prevent! SupWidat for pete's sake!??? This seems to be how the major medical manufactures deliberately make their barriers; as disposable consumables with a very short in-use expectancy. If you’re paying out-of-pocket (often right after surgery), the Barrier Press will save you significant money. Then there’s the full-pouch weight under gravity's pull. When you have a full pouch, it weights approximately two full pounds, YES, I weighed it! :) Think... a large book novel or a nice-sized steak glued to your stomach... and gravity wants to literally rip it off! This is called the "shear factor".  However, when you wear your Barrier Press holding all that liquid weight in place, the adhesion's deterioration is minimized, the shear factor is neutralized, and your wear time increases significantly for each setup! I actually ‘test wore” a Barrier Press for thirty days straight just to see if the full setup would last that long… it did! I don't recommend it, but it's nice to know in case of an emergency. My puck makes your current barriers and bags (you already use)... perform better, last longer. 

The puck is designed to be used with your own belt. I personally use a medical-grade adjustable elastic band but that's an optional added cost and I don't want to get into the belt manufacturing business. Here is where I buy my belts. Because of the belt holding my puck in place, I don't wear any other belt, so now I wear the world's most comfortable pants... "Pajama Pants" held up by suspenders worn under my shirts. Again, I can tell you where to buy them or simply Google it. If you have any questions about my puck or personal setup or experience, feel free to contact me.   

There are other types of “leaks” that my Barrier Press cannot prevent such as:

1. A hole in a pouch due to a manufacturing defect, yep… I’ve experienced this issue. The fix: change pouch from your Emergency Bag. When away from home, I carry my Emergency Bag which houses extra bags and barriers for just such an occasion. 

2. Urine flow gets cutoff to the bottom of bag because your underwear's elastic band is too tight. The white plastic snap ring is NOT leak-proof. This happens when you’re lying on your back and your underwear's elastic band cuts off urine flow to the bottom of the bag. The urine pools in the upper part of the pouch... the snap ring area and causes leaking there. Yep… I’ve experienced this issue too. My fix: I now wear extra-large sized underwear so the elastic band lives above the snap ring, not below it. 

3. Overnight collection bag defect or its hose pulls off the open valve during sleep or a defective valve itself.  Yep, been there, done that! The fix for the overnight collection bag… place it in a plastic oil pan (for changing your car’s oil). That way, no matter what happens to the collection bag, the urine remains sequestered in the oil pan, it works great! I carry the oil pan (and my Emergency Bag) with me when I travel and stay in hotel rooms. If you end up with urine spilling onto bedding, on a mattress or the floor, an excellent quick fix is Resolve’s Urine Destroyer spray. Blot up as much urine as you can, then simply spray the spot with the Urine Destroyer product… and walk away. It will dry naturally with NO leftover urine smell. Works great, I love it! And you don't look like a schmuck to the house cleaning staff. :) This is when you should leave a good tip. 

4. The worst one - that's self-inflicted!... you forget to hook up to your overnight collection bag. Yep, been there, done that one too!

5. 9/14/24: Now, that's a whole, new kind of leak I've never experienced until this morning! After draining my overnight collection bag yesterday morning, naturally I slid the valve back to the "closed" position. Unbeknownst to me... although it indicated it was closed... it was NOT! I woke up this morning with my collection bag empty but fortunately, the leaking bag and all its content was safely sequestered in my plastic oil pan I have just for such surprises!  A trick I learned from a previous experience.

If you’ve read down this far, it’s safe to assume you’re probably in (or have been in) the same situation I was in when I invented my BP puck. I want you to know, if you’re experiencing raw, damaged, wet, oozing, slippery skin around your stoma… my puck will still work to stop the leaking and then allow your painful, damaged skin to heal up naturally. That was my personal experience, and I was put to tears when I saw it happen myself… “What a relief!” I knew then others could benefit from my experience and invention. 

You can wear your puck briefly… just long enough to create a good seal (a day or two), then remove it once the solid seal takes effect. It is totally up to you how, when or how long you want to wear your puck. I normally wear my puck 24/7 with a pouch rinse once or twice a week during a shower. Just pop the pouch ring off the barrier ring, fill your pouch with warm water, swish, rinse, repeat (if you wish). Snap the pouch ring back onto the barrier ring and go on with your life. During a shower is also a good time to gently run your fingers around the barrier seal to check for blow-outs. My pouch seals last 7-10 days on average. This allows me to only use 4 pouches a month… HUGE time and money saver! Wearing my puck is so comfortable, I forget I have a pouch hanging from my stomach and the puck is not even noticeable by others. 

Time to go read that novel and cook up that yummy steak.  - Keister

Barrier Press Instruction Video Part 1:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Zb1O_5ULuk

Barrier Press Instruction Video Part 2:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJXHxAdNVzk