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inneedofadvice bob31550
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What did they tell you was the problem? Why were you having the test done? Do you have a foley that stays in there for long periods of time? I'm surprised at how big that balloon actually is. I read that it could be ten or twenty mL. I'm thinking that means how much urine it collects at a time. I was asking the reconstructive surgeon if this thing can get stuck in your bladder neck, and urethral area, but he didn't seem to think so. I have read plenty of case reports of that actually happening. How does it feel to have the foley in there so long if you do? Does your bladder spasm? I wish you would have provided some more information because I can't make sense of the picture? What do the yellow marks on the screen mean?
bob31550 inneedofadvice
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1) I was only talking to the technician. The results will be text from a radiologist who interprets the images.
2) See my posts from the thread on my second Uro appointment as to "why"
3) I've had a Foley since Sept 1st. Tried taking it out based on uro's advise, but there was a big bloody disaster -- story in another thread.
4) The balloon is there to only prevent the catheter from being pulled out. It is filled with saline. It needs to be fully deflated before being pulled out. There's someone in the forum who thinks his problem was from a Foley being pulled out without being fully deflated.
5) No bladder spasm. However, an indwelling catheter usually gets infected, before long, according to nurses, and posters in this forum. So, I've got blood and urine tests, galore. Taking Keflex when there is a UTI, or think so. Sometimes I have pain on the left abdomen, which may or may not be due to the catheter or the intermittent blockages (have maybe four or five, since Sept 1st.)
6) I did a search for ULTRASOUND STUDY PROSTATE and used a "sort by date". That is where I learned about ultrasound vs MRI.
inneedofadvice bob31550
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Okay let me know how it goes thanks for that extra info on how the balloon should be properly deflated before being pulled out. I know that I shouldn't have felt pain when it was being pulled out at the base of my penis or probably lower bladder area. I will never know if it was blown up improperly but from what I've read it was completely inserted improperly. I really hope you don't develop chronic prostatitis from these possible infections because that is hell to deal with. I have been in my abdomen as well as my rectum, and perineum. Pain in your rectum is the telltale sign of prostatitis because your prostate blows up from the infection and hits all those nerves and muscles in your pelvic floor. I really shouldn't have ended up with an infection because mine was a short lasting foley that was only in there for about six hours. Infections usually develop after they've been there for a number of days. I was dealing with an amateur and looking back on it I feel that the nurse either completely didn't care what happened to me or was just plain sadistic with everything he did leading up to the insertion. Before I knew it he had shoved it into me as I did my best not to scream, taped it up, and then left like a thief.