Morty, are you attaching your night bag to leg bag or disconnecting the leg bag and fitting a night bag to the catheter. Normal UK protocol is leg bags stop in place for 7 days and a new night bag is fitted every day. For infection control after surgery anything disconnected from the catheter should be thrown away and not reused. Post surgery and long term use of catheters are normally different.
Lifting to bag above the height of the bladder should not make any difference as the bags have an anti flow back arrangement. The bags I had 11 years ago the bags did not all have an anti flow back arrangement.
When you shower empty the leg bag and make sure the catheter is still attached to the leg.
I have had a suprapubic catheter for over 7 years.
Added, as Ned says normal position for a bag is below the bladder, a leg bag on the thigh may not always be below the bladder, but if you change position in the night it will at times be below the bladder. In addition usually your bladder will still produce pressure and expel the urine.
Thanks Chris
Edited by member 27 Dec 2024 at 23:33
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