do doctors office nurses help change you if need you help changing?

[Arik24]

Hey guys do doctors office nurses help change you if you need help changing your diaper ? I ask because I’m going to a new doctor and l might need help getting changed because of my cerebral palsy. I’m just really nervous that’s all

 

[messydiaper]

Silly question, but how do you change when you're not at the doctor?

 

[SparkyDog]

Hey guys do doctors office nurses help change you if you need help changing your diaper ? I ask because I’m going to a new doctor and l might need help getting changed because of my cerebral palsy. I’m just really nervous that’s all

Generally no
Admitted in hospital in bed you might get help
not just at dr office visit

how do you change at home?

 

[Arik24]

I change myself when I’m at home but due to my cerebral palsy it can vary time wise sometimes it takes less than a minute most the time it takes about 5 to 10 minutes the longest it took was 45 minutes.

 

[SparkyDog]

I change myself when I’m at home but due to my cerebral palsy it can vary time wise sometimes it takes less than a minute most the time it takes about 5 to 10 minutes the longest it took was 45 minutes.

You are most likely to have to change when you get home
They are unlikely to help at doctors office

 

[Pino]

I think the chance of needing a change in that short time at a doctors office is really small, so i never thought about that.

When i did the colonoscopy and was still dizzy from the sedation, the nurse helped me putting on the diapers, so i could clear the room as fast as possible. This was no hospital but a normal proctologist.

I can not image a situation for myself needing help to change at my family doctor, but i am sure they help when i asked with a reason, for example a broken arm or something.

I would try to avoid that in the first place.

 

[LuvMyDiapers]

I've been changed at the ER because I was there for several hours and halfway through my diaper became soaked. Another doctor I was changed it was at the urologist, but that line of expertise goes hand-in-hand with some people's needs to wear diapers. If I was at my general practitioner, I don't know if I would've had the same services, but I do think that if I ask nicely they would've taken into consideration that I was spinal cord injury, so maybe the same would go for you being that you have CP.

 

[Joeysms]

Hey guys do doctors office nurses help change you if you need help changing your diaper ? I ask because I’m going to a new doctor and l might need help getting changed because of my cerebral palsy. I’m just really nervous that’s all

it would i guess depend on the doctor's office staff (the doctor, nurse, assistance). what level of assistance you need and what you are being seen by the doctor. It would require you discussing this with the doctor's office sense you are a new patient. the only times i have ever been changed by nurses and assistances is when i have been in patient in the hospital hooked up to various monitors and an IV. My doctor has helped clean up vomit after i had vomited in bed and on him, but i had warned him it wasn't a good idea for my to sit up. in the doctor's office assisted with the gown but haven't had my diaper changed. you don't have to worry about needing additional time they won't rush you out of the exam room until you are ready. i hope your doctor goes well

 

[ben0510]

When I was in hospital with sickness and accute pains in one kidney, i was wired up to god knows what. and I wet the bed a litlle bit. the young nurse who was on duty at the time, suaggested I wear a nappy. and so off she went and came back with a disposable and some hot water and a towel. helped me get my pyjamas off which needed changing anyway. left me alone with the soap hot water and towel while I cleaned myself. then she came back. helped me put on the nappy, made sure it was fitting ok, and job done. I was very happy with that.

 

[Jorelaxed]

Same here!, all the times I have been hospitalized, the nurses were very professional and helped change me when my diaper would be soaked every two to three hours.

 

[Edgewater]

When seeing new medical staff, I believe that it is very important to be as open and honest as reasonable regarding your medical history and support requirements. With some specialists 'we and our needs' are well known with others not so much.

Because I am also type 2, any given year, I visit different specialists that are fully disconnected from my U-IC requirements, but are part of the type 2 support group. I do not expect them to be open to helping me, but with my longtime client relationship, they all are aware and I am certain that if I needed help, they would provide it.

 

[IncontinentBro]

In my experience as an abled-bodied incontineint, I've only been offered a change when incapacitated to some degree.
Depending on the severity, it was either an assist or total change with a wipe-down.

Most of the time it's just an assist with holding the front panel while I tape up the sides. Other times I've been rolled over on the bed to let them do their thing.

As for PCP visits, only once when I was soaked did a doctor direct his attending nurse to conduct a change. I felt invisible, but she didn't hesitate to take charge after the appointment and changed me while standing up.

 

[UrgentWees]

I’ve been offered assistance with a change by a nurse who saw I needed one when giving me an IM injection but I declined the offer as I’m able bodied and I knew there was an accessible bathroom close by. I think that had I taken up the offer it would have involved her putting a bluey down on the bed and giving me some privacy to change on my own in the room.