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For anyone who has ever had an ostomy in their lifetime, you surely know the struggle of trying to find, locate, research, and purchase ostomy supplies on the regular. I mean, shouldn’t ostomy supplies be free? After all, I literally need it to survive from day to day. However, I suppose that this line of thinking is a slippery slope, because one could argue that a lot of things are needed for survival like food, water, clothing, electricity, and whatever else you might add to that list. Regardless, I definitely have been frustrated about trying to buy ostomy supplies online.

You would think that finding the right products to take care of my stoma would not be such a hassle, but you’d be dead wrong in that case. I have had just the most frustrating experience while trying to afford different types of supplies to take care of my stuff. I have talked to a lot of other ostomates who can relate to the problems that I have about trying to maintain a stoma, and they all basically have the same thing to say. If it were up to me, ostomy supplies would be free for literally anyone who has a stoma. After all, haven’t I suffered enough through my surgery and recovery, and now daily life with a stoma? I should not also be burdened by the brutal responsibility of paying for my own ostomy supplies as well.

It is also worth noting that trying to buy ostomy supplies in stores is nearly impossible. I don’t know why, but for some reason most stores seem to have a really hard time keeping ostomy products in stock. I mean, why is it so hard? Just order more products and everything would be fine. I have spent too much time and money roaming around various stores. My first thought was to travel to supermarkets and big stores like Walmart, Meijer, and Target, since I was already going to these places to get groceries anyways. Since I go through a lot of food throughout the week, I usually end up taking 2 or 3 trips in total to the store to get groceries. That being said, those times would be really convenient for me to just get the ostomy supplies that I needed at the same time. However, these stores rarely have any ostomy supplies in stock. To make matters worse, the ostomy supplies that they do have is barely a good selection. I am pretty picky about the stuff I use because I care way too much about my stoma to just use some random products that I haven’t properly reviewed here and there.

Since I had to go through all this trouble, I decided that I would just start buying my ostomy supplies online instead. One nice thing about buying my ostomy supplies online is that I can literally just sit on my couch while I do it. No more having to travel to different stores and pharmacies trying to find the right products. The internet has just about anything that one could ever want, and there seems to be an endless supply of options for anyone shopping for stoma products. I now exclusively use online shopping for all of my ostomy needs, and will probably never visit an in-person store ever again for the rest of my life.