last week my nurse and i decided to do an experiment, to take my foley catheter out and see if i could urinate, and it WORKED it takes alot of work to completly void my bladder, but it works, i have stress leakage but after 2 full months of being cathed my bladder muscles are weak and my doctor said use the kegel exersizes to help with that. i can feel when my bladder is full but i still have to push pretty hard to void it. this was such a relief after all the infections and problems with the foley. i still have trouble with the bowels. but im working on that. i have gained so much knowledge from my short time here.
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I Had My Catheter Removed!
#1
Posted 17 June 2008 - 07:48 PM
Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
Elbert Hubbard
US author (1856 - 1915)
Elbert Hubbard
US author (1856 - 1915)
#2
Posted 17 June 2008 - 10:29 PM
That's fantastic Dave, keep up the good work.
Ulla, mother of Nick (34) Injured in a fall late March 2005. Quad C5/6/7 incomplete. 1 year at King's College Hospital, London. Stoke Mandeville Spinal Unit since March 2006. Discharged 06/06/2007.
#3
Posted 18 June 2008 - 10:31 AM
That IS good news, congratulations.
I’m just curious – how long ago was your injury? I’m at 10 months. I was able to void when I came home from rehab, but after a couple months I lost the ability. Still, I keep trying.
I’m just curious – how long ago was your injury? I’m at 10 months. I was able to void when I came home from rehab, but after a couple months I lost the ability. Still, I keep trying.
'Cause that's how I roll!
#4
Posted 18 June 2008 - 02:55 PM
Hi Dave,
I see you are an L5 so removing the catheter should work great. Two months after my injury I was ready to go home from rehab and my doctor said I would have to use the Foley catheter and that I could not urinate on my own. But I felt I had some control over my bladder. I could feel and control my urine flow. A nurse and I did the same experiment. She took out the Foley catheter and I held my urine over night. She was ready in the morning for me and I didn’t have to wait.
I sometimes have accidents and leakage but it’s usually my fault. I wait too long. I am now working on my bowels and it is going great.
Good luck,
Carole
I see you are an L5 so removing the catheter should work great. Two months after my injury I was ready to go home from rehab and my doctor said I would have to use the Foley catheter and that I could not urinate on my own. But I felt I had some control over my bladder. I could feel and control my urine flow. A nurse and I did the same experiment. She took out the Foley catheter and I held my urine over night. She was ready in the morning for me and I didn’t have to wait.
I sometimes have accidents and leakage but it’s usually my fault. I wait too long. I am now working on my bowels and it is going great.
Good luck,
Carole
"It's only the giving that makes you what you are." Tull
#5
Posted 21 June 2008 - 12:40 AM
im two months post injury. the doctors never wanted to try and let me void on my own in rehab, but i have a very good nurse and we talked about it. i'm doing great with the bladder, but the bowels are another thing.
Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
Elbert Hubbard
US author (1856 - 1915)
Elbert Hubbard
US author (1856 - 1915)
#6
Posted 21 June 2008 - 09:43 PM
Thats great - I really hated the whole cath thing and I void - I also havent had a UTI since I stopped using a cath.
Bowels will come, watch what you eat and try to get into a routine. It took ages for me to get that sorted.I now have quite a list of foods that will mess things up for me (literally!!!!)
Bowels will come, watch what you eat and try to get into a routine. It took ages for me to get that sorted.I now have quite a list of foods that will mess things up for me (literally!!!!)
#7
Posted 30 June 2008 - 03:51 PM
Thats great news. I too have bladder control, and I use that in a relative term to this crowd as an AB would disagree about using the word "control" lol. Anyways, I can tell when I need to go and I can go, it just takes a long time after I get to the toilet before anything happens and it comes out really slow but I wouldnt give that up for anything! When I go places like a fair and go to the bathroom it takes me a long time in there but most people I go with respect that some things just take longer 
Thats great news though, and keep it up. Nurses wanted to cath me but I told them that though it came slow and took a long time, I could do it and I refused to give up that control.
Thats great news though, and keep it up. Nurses wanted to cath me but I told them that though it came slow and took a long time, I could do it and I refused to give up that control.

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