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mark cleary <
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I am 54 broke my hip at top riding bike. I had it pinned 3 screws.
After surgery the hip is doing fine able to even walk on my own but
could not pee. I had over 1.2 liters in bladder they straight cathed
me and then had to again when 6 hours later it was at 1 liter. I went
home with foley catheter and what a pain. I have BPH and have been
taking tamulosin the past 6 months. I go to the bath room sometimes
15 times a day depending. I can get it out but always seem like I
cannot empty the bladder. Well now I am afraid my ability to pee is
going to be gone for good. A week of the catheter will it stop
figuring out what to do and this catheter is really holding up my
progress. I am a long distance runner and cyclist in really great
aerobic shape do all types of core exercises to keep fit but this is
really causing me to worry.
Any thoughts or experiences with this I would appreciate. Most of the
stuff is geared to those older than me and issues. I have had the
enlarged prostate for at least 8 years and 3 negative biopsy's thank
the lord, but at this point I don't care maybe just taking it out is
the way to go. I don't even care about the side effects at this
point, I just want to pee and get out of this cath.
Mark,
Hopefully, your situation has resolved itself by now, but I just saw this
today so I'll reply anyway in case you are not yet having success in getting rid of the Foley catheter.
I have (and had) BPH which was being managed well, but I also had hernia surgery about a year ago. After the surgery, I was sent home without a catheter even though I really was not able to pee before going home. I had said that maybe a few drops came out, and they said that's fine and sent me home. They said that if I couldn't pee when at home recovering, that I
should go to the ER. I live alone, and I was at home in a lot of pain and discomfort, and could only pee a tiny bit at a time. I kept putting off
going to the ER (foolish me) and I finally did go there on my own in a
couple of days and they put in a Foley catheter. They said I had way over a liter of urine in my bladder, and after reading stuff on the Internet, I thought that maybe I had wrecked my own bladder by not going to the ER
sooner and that maybe I would permanently have a problem urinating.
When I had the Foley cath taken out a few days later at my urologist's
office (in the morning) for a "void trial", and went back in the afternoon, they had to put a Foley cath back in because I was still not able to
urinate -- huge disappointment. I had to do that once a week, and I kept failing the "void trial" and would have to have the Foley cath put back in
each week. I hated that, and I thought that maybe I had truly wrecked my bladder for good. At first, they kept saying it was just the anesthesia and everything would be fine. Then they started saying that I would probably
need a TURP for the BPH to fix the problem. I really hated the catheter and
I had problems sleeping with it in. And, I was annoyed because I had BPH
before the surgery and it was under control with no issues, and now after
the surgery I was being told I would need TURP surgery for my BPH -- it
didn't make sense to me.
My regular uro was going to be away for two weeks, so I saw a substitute uro for the weekly void trial before my regular uro got back. And, the plan was that when my regular uro got back, if the void trials were not working I
would be getting TURP surgery.
The substitute uro turned out to be a Nurse Practitioner, and when I went
back for the afternoon visit on a once-again failed void trial, before
having the Foley cath put back in, I said that I was reading about self-catheterization online and asked if that was something I could try
rather than have the Foley cath put back in. He said he would show me how
to do self-catheterization, which he did, and I went home with self-catheterization as the plan and without a Foley cath. The idea of self-catheterization seemed a little strange to me, but I just decided to
psych myself into being able to do it. It turned out that it is no big deal
at all. It is easy to do. He gave self-cath devices with a "Coude"(?) (curved) tip which is the only correct way to go for males. I forget the brand, but they were red rubber and the tip was definitely and obviously curved. I only mention that because later I tried another brand that said
it had a curved tip, but it was really just a clear straight cath with a
tiny little bend on the end -- that was not good -- those didn't work well
but they did work.
Doing the self-catheterizations was a huge relief over having to wear a
Foley cath 24/7. I was so-o-o-o glad that I asked about that and tried it!
I was finally able to sleep, and I didn't have to keep a Foley cath in and
wear a bag.
Anyway, after only about another 10 days of self-cathing, the problems with urinating went away completely and I didn't have to have any surgery.
Things actually started to improve before 10 days was up, where I noticed
that I could go a little and then a little more on my own every couple of
days while I was still doing the self-cath routine. I think the self-caths gave my bladder a chance to actually experience the fullness and to create
the urge to go etc. I think a built-in Foley cath 24/7 just drains the
bladder and it never experiences fullness.
Again, I am so-o-o-o glad that I had the fortitude to actually ask about self-catheterization, and that the Nurse Practitioner was okay with that and was willing to teach me how to do that. The self-caths ended my nightmare. Problem solved.
Meanwhile, what happened with you? Do you still have the problem or did it resolve itself after a couple of weekly void trials while on the Foley cath?
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