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james88935
james88935

Went back in today for second void effort since procedure. All was well for the first 6 hours after catheter removal. Bladder pressure started building up after that and I made it back to the Uro right before they closed. Nurse reinserted catheter. No blood no clots. She will recommend to doc that I do self cathetering until bladder can be retrained. Is there any trick to doing it yourself, or is it pretty simple?

Thanks for any advice.

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    TKM james88935

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    James,

    jimjames made a post a couple weeks ago about a method to help get the catheter through the bladder sphincter. I think it may have been in one of his original CIC discusions. Basically he said you run the catheter in until it hits the bladder sphincter. Then while keeping up gentle pressure you contract the rectum, like a Kegal exercise, you will feel the catheter suck in a little then gently push it in. You may have to repeat that 3 or 4 times before it goes through. I have tried it and it works well.

    Thomas

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      james88935 TKM

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      Thank you. All help and advice is much appreciated. I have a lot to learn about this stuff. I am finding I have just begun this journey and many of you have been on it awhile. I thought I would simply have the Rezum and be ok but it is a bit more complicated.

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