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Does anyone have experience using leg bags with a Foley catheter?
A brief but if background: I’ve had near total functional and urge urinary incontinence for years now. A few months ago I developed a rash on my outer thighs after a bad viral infection. (Side note: if anyone has experience with erythema annulare centrifugum, hit me up because I’m all ears.). The rash is stubborn and refuses to go away, and now it’s starting to blister and become painful. Apparently it can take up to a year to heal. My dermatologist prescribed me all sorts of goops. The one thing I haven’t been able to do is air out. In fact the rash is pretty much exclusively confined to areas covered by my diaper. So for the next 48 hours I’m airing out using a catheter and leg bag. I’m no stranger to cathing. I am taking precautions to avoid UTIs and I plan to test my urine using at home kits if I keep it in longer than 48 hours. However I’m not used to the leg bag and it’s causing me all sorts of headaches.
The biggest problem, by far is that it doesn’t fill properly. They are 1000 ml bags. They fill for the first 500 ml or so and then just stop. This causes urine to back up in the tubing and gets uncomfortable quickly. There are no kinks, or loops. Even when hanging perfectly vertically it doesn’t drain. I strongly suspect it has to with a lack of vacuum in the bag. When I use a 2L urine bag with a larger solid input tube it drains fine. Also when I disconnect the cath from the tubing allowing air in the tube, the leg bag drains fine.
Is there any way to keep a leg bag’s input tube from “collapsing” or allow air pressure in the tubing to maintain a pressure gradient? Or are there better leg bags with rigid input tubing? Am I doing something wrong? I’ve scoured the internet and I can’t find anything about this problem anywhere.
Also I see they make belly urine bag systems, but can you use that with a foley? I thought it needs to use gravity to drain. Alternatively, would it better if I kept the 2L urine bag in a backpack or satchel or something? I can rest it on the ground when I’m sitting. Though again, I’d be going against gravity when walking.
Hopefully this is worth it.
Thanks!
A brief but if background: I’ve had near total functional and urge urinary incontinence for years now. A few months ago I developed a rash on my outer thighs after a bad viral infection. (Side note: if anyone has experience with erythema annulare centrifugum, hit me up because I’m all ears.). The rash is stubborn and refuses to go away, and now it’s starting to blister and become painful. Apparently it can take up to a year to heal. My dermatologist prescribed me all sorts of goops. The one thing I haven’t been able to do is air out. In fact the rash is pretty much exclusively confined to areas covered by my diaper. So for the next 48 hours I’m airing out using a catheter and leg bag. I’m no stranger to cathing. I am taking precautions to avoid UTIs and I plan to test my urine using at home kits if I keep it in longer than 48 hours. However I’m not used to the leg bag and it’s causing me all sorts of headaches.
The biggest problem, by far is that it doesn’t fill properly. They are 1000 ml bags. They fill for the first 500 ml or so and then just stop. This causes urine to back up in the tubing and gets uncomfortable quickly. There are no kinks, or loops. Even when hanging perfectly vertically it doesn’t drain. I strongly suspect it has to with a lack of vacuum in the bag. When I use a 2L urine bag with a larger solid input tube it drains fine. Also when I disconnect the cath from the tubing allowing air in the tube, the leg bag drains fine.
Is there any way to keep a leg bag’s input tube from “collapsing” or allow air pressure in the tubing to maintain a pressure gradient? Or are there better leg bags with rigid input tubing? Am I doing something wrong? I’ve scoured the internet and I can’t find anything about this problem anywhere.
Also I see they make belly urine bag systems, but can you use that with a foley? I thought it needs to use gravity to drain. Alternatively, would it better if I kept the 2L urine bag in a backpack or satchel or something? I can rest it on the ground when I’m sitting. Though again, I’d be going against gravity when walking.
Hopefully this is worth it.
Thanks!
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