Just diagnosed and terrified.

It also helps with Reaching to wipe your bottom a bit as well, if you can get hold of some moistened toilet tissues they are much easier to use or if you still cannot reach use the shower head like a hand held bidet.

Things will start to ease off soon.

I am so pleased your brother is coming up to stay to give you help and also just for the company.

I am sure there will be other Men here who have been through this without a wife or partner who will be able to come up with more ideas that might help.

best wishes

xx

Mo

Edited by member 10 Jul 2015 at 00:19  | Reason: Not specified

interesting about the nose hold and hand breathe idea, that is also a very old cure for hiccups, my Nan always made us breathe in and out of a brown paper bag (not a plastic one that wuld be cruel!!) It works every time for me. I would imagine there is science behind that i.e. breathing in your own processed air which has now been converted to carbon dioxide which in turn must be a mild natural muscle relaxant. It seems to work much better than the other usual ones like holding your breath or drinking water through a cup backwards as they just reduce the amount of oxygen you take in.

Steve, sorry just a little diversion on a bright friday morning.

Have a much more comfortable weekend

xx

Mo

I'm not sure of the science of the bladder and bowel except to say that if you have a very full bowel, and you must have by now, then it will put pressure on other organs close by so maybe that's what causes the leakage.

Just so we are reading from the same page, are you talking a urinary leak from the penis.
Is it "normal" colour or bloody or what.

I appreciate that with a catheter in you wouldn't expect leakage at all.

When you sat there "waiting to go" were you using any pressure at all ie trying to evacuate or just waiting around so to speak?

Not necessary to apologise. Unlike the Queen, who is surely a different being as she is royalty, we all have bodies that behave in more or less the same way !

Personally I would say never ignore the slightest feeling that you might be able to go.
Are you drinking plenty of fluids?

I feel ok at the moment and the sensation to go has pretty much gone, I haven't eaten anything for 5 days now so I don't think I'm that bunged up. Drinking lots of water though.

It looks normal urinary leakage, colour is fine, didn't sting or anything.

I was just waiting around to let nature take its course, no pushing at all.

Yes drinking lots and lots of water.

Before wrapping toilet roll or anything else around the point where the catheter enters you penis I would check that this is not going to, or be likely to, increase the risk of an infection?

The importance of absolute hygiene at that area can not be over emphasised, as one who has had a UTI I can tell you you do not want one if you can avoid it, it is excruciatingly painful, or was for me.

You always wash away from the catheter entry point, washing out away from, rather than in towards, the penis.

Some catheters do leak, some less so or more so than others. If it is unbearable you may be able to have the balloon at the end filled up more to try to improve the seal? Worth asking the District Nurse or your GP about.

You are doing well so far.

atb

dave

I am being very careful with the cleansing and always wiping away from the entry point down the tube.

I've still not been a number 2, tried today but nothing happened after the leak I had.

I will remember the towel technique and I must start taking the liquid softener they gave me.