boomer2480
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I am 70 years old.When I was 56 I lost all bladder control. I went to a urologist
and he ran all his tests and found nothing. He sent me for a MRI from my neck to my tail bone. I went back the next day and met with the doctor and a surgeon that worked on spinal cord injuries . I was diagnosed with severe spinal stenosis with nerve impingements when I was in my late twenties
They told me that the impingements had damaged my quada equine nerve bundle and then my diabetes had attacked the damaged nerves and had destroyed them. The quada equine bundle controls the bladder. I used caths for about a year but they had a braided my urethra to the the point that I could no longer tolerate the pain and bleeding.When I would take the cath out in the evening to shower the urine would hit that raw urethra and it was like battery acid and I would piss blood
in the shower for sometimes five minutes and the pain would put m to my knees. I can't use condom caths because I am not circumcised and the keep
coming off. When I first lost control I swore I would never use diapers. Well that was the only choice left and my only regret is that I didn't go with diapers right from the start and save myself a lot of agony. I use disposables during the day and cloth diapers and plastic pants at night. I have to use cloth at night because with the stenosis I have to sleep on my side an I have tried many many disposables from both north America and Europe and have yet to find one that doesn't leak if you sleep on your side. American made diapers lean to discreetness first then absorbency second and diapers from Europe are just the revers. If your going to start using diapers just relax and go with the flow it's not the end of the world.
and he ran all his tests and found nothing. He sent me for a MRI from my neck to my tail bone. I went back the next day and met with the doctor and a surgeon that worked on spinal cord injuries . I was diagnosed with severe spinal stenosis with nerve impingements when I was in my late twenties
They told me that the impingements had damaged my quada equine nerve bundle and then my diabetes had attacked the damaged nerves and had destroyed them. The quada equine bundle controls the bladder. I used caths for about a year but they had a braided my urethra to the the point that I could no longer tolerate the pain and bleeding.When I would take the cath out in the evening to shower the urine would hit that raw urethra and it was like battery acid and I would piss blood
in the shower for sometimes five minutes and the pain would put m to my knees. I can't use condom caths because I am not circumcised and the keep
coming off. When I first lost control I swore I would never use diapers. Well that was the only choice left and my only regret is that I didn't go with diapers right from the start and save myself a lot of agony. I use disposables during the day and cloth diapers and plastic pants at night. I have to use cloth at night because with the stenosis I have to sleep on my side an I have tried many many disposables from both north America and Europe and have yet to find one that doesn't leak if you sleep on your side. American made diapers lean to discreetness first then absorbency second and diapers from Europe are just the revers. If your going to start using diapers just relax and go with the flow it's not the end of the world.