I hope you have a speedy recovery!

Quote from: toxicpixie on 11 January 2018, 12:00:37 AM
After an op a few years back that first per was magical

After having the catheter into the belly for the best part of a year......I'd completely forgotten how to pee normally.
I'm still not convinced I'm using the same muscles to pee, as I used to. 

Cheers - Phil

When I had a catheter I didn't even know I was peeing. When I had a colostomy ... the same ... but potentially stinkier.

Don't these devices bypass the voluntary parts of the brain and just let the involuntary systems do their thing?

I think that you'e not using those pee muscles at all.



I'm now going to pour soap into my ear to see if I can wash my barin of the images there.

Fortunately I've never had to have a catheter; they were muttering about one shortly before the blessed release. Think the idea frightened my bladder back to normal

Here's to everyone currently recuperating, Jim, Westmarcher, I hope you're all clear and out at home soon as.

Quote from: Techno on 11 January 2018, 07:07:00 AM
After having the catheter into the belly for the best part of a year......I'd completely forgotten how to pee normally.
I'm still not convinced I'm using the same muscles to pee, as I used to. 

Cheers - Phil

How are you doing, Phil? That's about a month now since your own operation.

Thanks, Nathan. Results clear.

Splendid stuff

Hope same for everyone else!

Quote from: Westmarcher on 11 January 2018, 02:56:35 PM
How are you doing, Phil? That's about a month now since your own operation.

Thanks, Nathan. Results clear.

Hi Westie.....That's excellent news. Matey.

I THINK I'm winning,......though a couple of days ago, I couldn't pee normally, at all.  (PANIC STATIONS)

There still seem to be loads of wee bits of prostate 'crumbling off' (sometimes a sodding big lump !! )....and I reckon they'd blocked my urethra, so I was glad that I still had the 'back up' of the catheter.
It seems to be all fine now....But instead of arranging to go back to the specialist nurse to have the catheter removed in the next few days, as I'm supposed to.....I'm going to be a complete coward and ask if I can keep it for another month. (If they don't ask me to go back in, soon, I'm not going to prompt them. )

Cheers - Phil

Blee, that sounds "fun", Phil :S

Good luck again!

Quote from: Techno on 11 January 2018, 04:16:04 PM
There still seem to be loads of wee bits of prostate 'crumbling off' (sometimes a sodding big lump !! )....and I reckon they'd blocked my urethra, so I was glad that I still had the 'back up' of the catheter.

Lordy, Lordy, lordy! 

Let's hope it doesn't lay you completely prostrate! Get well!

You too, Westie...and Jim...and others!
I'm still seventeen inside my head!

I'm glad i didn't read this lot at lunch time 

Jim, all the best, wishing you a speedy recovery.

Matt

Urgh! Phil! You okay at last!

My Dad has a stoma bag having had an op to remove his prostate and then his bladder. The nurse told him in no uncertain terms to replace his tubes as directed and not leave them in any longer than prescribed, as the results of doing so can lead to major infections etc. So Phil, maybe you should see the nurse as arranged...

I'm fairly confident that I'm OK on that score, Steve.

I've had the catheter changed far more often than the 10-12 weeks they're supposed to last, 'hygiene wise', and I religiously change the 'tap' twice a week.

I was originally told that I only had to change the tap once a week....But if I use one of the sterile 'flushing' bottles, 'cos I think there's a blockage...I change the tap then, too.

I Just want to make absolutely sure that I don't have any probs peeing in the normal way before they take the catheter out.
There's also the added (very lazy) bonus of being able to plug the catheter into an overnight bag, so I don't have to get up to have a pee during the night. 

That'll put a lot of people off breakfast ! 

Cheers - Phil

The luxury of not having to get up in the night to have a pee!!! Glad to hear you're good on the hygiene front Phil .

Quote from: Steve J on 12 January 2018, 08:11:47 AM
The luxury of not having to get up in the night to have a pee!!!

That's been the silver lining in the cloud, Steve. 

Cheers - Phil