ltaluv
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I'm scheduled to go in Friday for a custodian with hydrodistention, in which they anesthetize me and overfill my bladder with water to stretch it. I've had this done several times before, and it helps with my bladder pain but sure isn't much fun. I'll be sore for a few days, and more often than not I end up hospitalized overnight with anesthesia complications or post-rocedure pain.
I haven't had this done since I started getting Botox injections in my bladder about a year and a half ago. Those help a lot with my urgency and usually eliminate my incontinence for a few months, but this time around I've started having a lot more bladder pain not that long after the Botox. Many of my incontinence episodes lately have been where it's just gotten to painful to hold it in any more.
I always dread this procedure because it hurts, and because they never put a catheter in me or a diaper back on me, so I wake up feeling like I've got to pee desperately. I either find I can't go without a catheter, or I end up peeing all over the bed. The catheter doesn't bother me, so I'll probably ask them to put one in me during the procedure. Even if they put a diaper on me, it'd be one of the cheap hospital kind.
I haven't had this done since I started getting Botox injections in my bladder about a year and a half ago. Those help a lot with my urgency and usually eliminate my incontinence for a few months, but this time around I've started having a lot more bladder pain not that long after the Botox. Many of my incontinence episodes lately have been where it's just gotten to painful to hold it in any more.
I always dread this procedure because it hurts, and because they never put a catheter in me or a diaper back on me, so I wake up feeling like I've got to pee desperately. I either find I can't go without a catheter, or I end up peeing all over the bed. The catheter doesn't bother me, so I'll probably ask them to put one in me during the procedure. Even if they put a diaper on me, it'd be one of the cheap hospital kind.