How do you prepare the bladder for storing a average amount of urine after wearing a catheter for many weeks? At present I can only manage 1/3 to 1/2 the average. Not too good for traveling, going to theatre, shopping etc.
i have had a catheter in for a long time and i will have to have it for the rest of my life
hi george put in a search on google or what ever search engine you use .
how to strenghen your bladder after removel of a catherter loads of information .
good luck i have an over sensistive bladder due to my fibro it drives me mad and its esp bad when its cold .
Hi. You didn't happen to say for how long you had the catheter in for and why. I'm a nurse and usual we would start to train the bladder whilenthe catheter was still in. Now as that is not the case I would recommend seriously retrain the bladder by holding on to the urine each time you needed to void by even 10 minutes or so. It may seem like a slow process well because it is. The other excerise that you need to do is working the muscle down there. You can google how to do that but basically it is like clutching that muscle. Good luck and don't give up it just takes sio
I am sorry that it is necessary. However, you may think my sympathy is a bit shallow if you have read my remarks expressing my delight with my catheter. I have it to avoid the agony of spasms in my bladder when trying and managing to pee and when at the stool. So not a common view point on the subject.
You have my deapest sympathy. The degree of agony from a sensitive bladder is indescribable. Impossble to keep quiet. I upset the whole house with the noise I made. Unlike most pain I can remember this one - I thought that was impossible. Now I know it is.
Thank you for your advice. I will try that.
i have got a neuro genic bladder so if i did not have a catheter i would just pee. i get spasms in my bladder but i am on a medication to control my spasms. when i get them if i did not have a catheter i would just go into retention
at the moment i dont get to much pain. discomfort some times but mines a symptom of my condition not a condition this maybe why
but its a bloody nuisence if you want to go any where the amount of stops i have to make and night times can mean up 7 trips . iv reduced sugar and stopped caffine has helped .a little
try going on to a medication called solifenicin it will help reduce the flow of urine and reduces the urge to go for a pee. ask your gp for a precription and you need to get 10mg
Ah! thanks Daniel. Another piece of the puzzle in place. The radio therapist gave me pills and my GP added to them. They had very little effect and I was still in frequent agony. The catheter was the only effective pain relief. No one had linked spasm to retention for me.
My GP only gave me 5mg. It INCREASED the frequency. I don't like even to remember those nights.
Thank you Debbi. The system crashed and I lost my reply. But I am rewriting it. Please do not think I am ignoring your kindness.
try asking to go onto 10mg instead of 5mg because 5mg will not do anything
Yes indeed Daniel. I will keep that in mind for when the catheter comes out, if ever.
I heard about an exercise in which when you're going to the toilet you let a bit out, then squeeze and stop, bit more out, stop and keep doing that throughout urination to improve muscle tone. Might help!
where abouts is your catheter if you do not mind me asking? do you have a district nurse that comes out to change it for you or do u do it yourself?
Great thanks. I used to be able to do that no bother. Much harder for ladies I understand. But yes, I need to be able to do that again so an excellent exercise. Also I have some idea of what I need to do.
Meantime I can squeeze the catheter.. I have just been trying. I think it works in conjunction with the pelvic floor muscles.
Super, thanks.
Hi Daniel,
I am new to this, just six weeks. In my area the fist change must be done by A&E. Given the crisis that seems daft. Anyway I had my firse change after a leak. District nurse is fiorbidden to do that one. Went to A&E as arranged by my GP. it seems to me I was a bad smell under their nose, just another time waster. They saw me in under an hour. Then little happended with long gaps between that little. By the time the nurse was getting her kit ready I was a gibbering mess and dancing like a four year old caught short. I was in desperate agony and distress. The floor was quite safe as I had been in retention for 4 1/2 hours.
Then oo oo oo cough and bliss .
Give me self catherisation or district nurse any time. The Middle Ages couldn't have done better if they wanted my PIN. I would have told A&E anything just to get the catheter.
Was it done by a nurse in A&E rather than a urology nurse?
Are you a urology nurse? If so I will ask you a question.