Getting the bladder back to normal after a catheter

I am sorry that it is necessary. However, you may think my sympathy is a bit shallow if you have read my remarks expressing my delight with my catheter. I have it to avoid the agony of spasms in my bladder when trying and managing to pee and when at the stool. So not a common view point on the subject. 

i have got a neuro genic bladder so if i did not have a catheter i would just pee. i get spasms in my bladder but i am on a medication to control my spasms. when i get them if i did not have a catheter i would just go into retention

Ah! thanks Daniel. Another piece of the puzzle in place. The radio therapist gave me pills and my GP added to them. They had very little effect and I was still in frequent agony. The catheter  was the only effective pain relief. No one had linked spasm to retention for me. 

You have my deapest sympathy. The degree of agony from a sensitive bladder is indescribable. Impossble to keep quiet. I upset the whole house with the noise I made. Unlike most pain I can remember this one - I thought that was impossible. Now I know it is.

Thank you for your advice. I will try that.

at the moment i dont get to much pain. discomfort some times but mines a symptom of my condition not a condition this maybe why 

but  its a bloody nuisence if you want to go any where the amount of stops i have to make and night times can mean up 7 trips . iv reduced sugar and stopped caffine has helped  .a little

try going on to a medication called solifenicin it will help reduce the flow of urine and reduces the urge to go for a pee. ask your gp for a precription and you need to get 10mg

My GP only gave me 5mg. It INCREASED the frequency. I don't like even to remember those nights.

try asking to go onto 10mg instead of 5mg because 5mg will not do anything

Yes indeed Daniel. I will keep that in mind for when the catheter comes out, if ever.

where abouts is your catheter if you do not mind me asking? do you have a district nurse that comes out to change it for you or do u do it yourself?

Hi Daniel,

I am new to this, just six weeks. In my area the fist change must be done by A&E. Given the crisis that seems daft. Anyway I had my firse change after a leak. District nurse is fiorbidden to do that one. Went to A&E as arranged by my GP. it seems to me I was a bad smell under their nose, just another time waster. They saw me in under an hour. Then little happended with long gaps between that little. By the time the nurse was getting her kit ready I was a gibbering mess and dancing like a four year old caught short. I was in desperate agony and distress. The floor was quite safe as I had been in retention for 4 1/2 hours. 

Then oo    oo    oo  cough   and bliss . 

Give me self catherisation or district nurse any time. The Middle Ages couldn't have done better if they wanted my PIN. I would have told A&E anything just to get the catheter.

Was it done by a nurse in A&E rather than a urology nurse?

Yes an A&E nurse. The original was in urology. Give new urology any time if it has to be hospital.

the very first time that i had a catheter is when i was five years old and the hospital trained me on how to do it. the district nurse should come out to change it if you have a leak. A&E said you were a time waster? when i have been in retention i was not able to pass urine for a long time until my bladder has relaxed. i was in agony and in a lot of stress as well

try getting a indwelling foley catheter with a catheter connected to the end of it

A&E did not say I was a time waster, they behaved as if I were. I believe body language is almost always honest. Being rather deaf I use my eyes a lot.

well i do not go to hospital any more because they are a waste of time and effort i just contact the district nurse. why don't you try and contact the district nurse instead of going to the hospital?

O yes, Daniel, definately the district nurse. It was just that the first change had to be at A&E. Crazy and very painful and distressing. Who makes these administrative decisions? Just crazy.

absolutely right Daniel.

Hi there

they messed up my cathata change at a local clinic they created a false hole that made me bleed for 9 weeks the AanE urologist had to put right it was very painful he even put a camera down there I did not look I said get on with it if I swear out aloud I apologise in advance . yes a lot of nurses know how too take cathatas out but not how fit a new due to maneuvering around the prostrate for my self I don't want the Alpha inhibitors meds because I'm allergic break out in blisters red spots that bleeds not everyone has these problems but it's very disconcerting when they don't have the info on computer of your prior allergies and I perfectly under stand the stress you had been going through but I wish you a speedy recovery

that's true body language is a dead give away they don't even now there doing it its like thinking out aloud but with body language