Enlarged prostate and travel sickness
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I would appreciate any advice on what medication (if any) would prevent my travel sickness whilst on a cruise. Over the counter medications advise not to use if suffering with BHP and travel bands dont work for me.
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cartoonman richard256
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cartoonman richard256
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arlington richard256
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lester90053 richard256
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richard256 lester90053
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Carry-on_CMDR richard256
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Another alternative to consider is the Scopalamine transdermal patch, which is what I now use to prevent motion sickness. My biggest side effect with that is strong dryness of the mouth, but I'ae also never used it for more than four days.
Neither of these products was available when I was in the Navy, but if the ship was large enough (that's subjective) then I was OK for all but pitching. Now, I need these meds for most motion conditions.
b/t/w, I have BPH and am on Avodart and Uroxatral and Cialis, and also CIC 4/x day to keep my PVR under control.
You could always arrange to bring some state-of-the-art one time catheters in case you have a urinary reaction that I escaped.
lester90053 Carry-on_CMDR
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thomas76657 Carry-on_CMDR
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Be careful of those patches. I'm fairly certain that if you have a seizure disorder of epilepsy, they can precipitate a seizure.
bill20925 richard256
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I had to completely rely on one for 4 months (I am all set now, no problems). Before that, it got so bad I couldn't even get one in (I had to go supra-cubic).
When I could use one, I almost always skipped the bag in day and just had a plug or valve, and would go to any urinal just like everyone else. It worked great! At night, sometimes I would use the cork/valve approach which worked fine, and at times I would use the foley bag which lets you purge all bladder waste while helping to relax your entire system.
Self catheterization was easy for me so long as I could get one in, i.e. My prostate eventually got so large (>>>100MG's) that it wouldn't work. I hope most of you don't get there!
cartoonman bill20925
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I have not found any info on surgery for stretched bladders, and would welcome any input there!
The Speedicath IS my go-to cath, after trying several. As for going abroad: I was married last June, here in the US... and took along 150 catheters for our one-month honeymoon in England and France! How romantic!! :-D
arlington cartoonman
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bill20925 richard256
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But on bladder recovery, the Doctor I went to for HoLEP, Jom Lingemen, out of Indi, he said my bladder would recover, and it has. I can probably retain 700++ today. At one point when things were bad my bladder stretched to hold close to 1.5L according to the doctor.
howard53545 bill20925
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cartoonman bill20925
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I cringe to think of doing such, as the chances of infection are... TOO BIG TO CHANCE! Even with single-use catheters, it's easy to screw up (I have). And re Howard's well-meant comment in this thread, and with all due respect, it strikes me as simply a Really Bad Idea, to reuse chateters! Even while thinking I was "being careful," I had attacks of epiditimitus three times over the 15 months I was cathing for every pee. OKay, one was just dumbness after a wild evening while on honeymoon in France, and involved getting up and cathing, only to realize at the end, that I hadn't cleaned up the site at all! Imagine trying to explain to a French doctor what had happened... :-)
With my new protocol, using that Speedicath ("My Friend!" :-) ), I've had no repeats of infects in the past three months of last-pee-of-the-day cathing. As much as I'm a recycler, I accept that reusing catheters just ain't a good idea.
howard53545 richard256
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