Self catheter vs wearing a diaper

[Diaperman95]

Thanks a lot! My fucking skin is trying to crawl off of my body and I STILL have horror chills flowing down my spine! If anyone did that to me while awake I'm definitely swinging!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HOLY FUCKING OUCH!

I'm never getting back to sleep now! I'm already having a horrible night as there is a MASSIVE cold front coming and my head has about exploded, I can't stop sweating yet I am cold. GOD I HATE WINTER! Just knowing it is right around the corner, combined with your cock boring stories....yeah. I'm in great shape right now!

PS...next time you need that I'll take you to my cousin's race engine shop and we'll lay you down, cock propped up and use his cylinder boring machine! It's a new CNC unit so the accuracy is "DEAD NUTS" on! Pun fully intended! He does a lot of machine work on $$$$ULTRA HIGH DOLLAR race engines, billet blocks that start out as a huge chunk of some super duty aluminum alloy and they build engines into the mid 600 cubic inch range. He's the same as me...knew exactly what he wanted to do when he was 10-11 and like my Father, his Father (my Uncle) dd everything possible to tlk him out of doing this for a living...though they've had a national reputation for a very long time and he's educated, same as I am to the degree he knows far more than his Dad ever could although that's not to say that his dad lacked any skill building engines!!!

I WILL get you back for telling me about this you prick! Have a good night

@Diaperman95 !!!!​

PAYBACK is a bitch! Just where is it you say you live? LOL

Sorry if it was TMI. Lol Be careful or I might tell you about my uro dynamics testing at the learning hospital with abut 15 collage girls in the room. I have several procedures that might make your skin crawl. I was even 100% Awake for a colonoscopy once. I mean they never even puta IV in my arm or tried to drug me. //bunch of BS is what it was as he told me e was only going to look about 6 inches deep. But then decided to do the entire thing.

Anyway I will spare you the details so you can sleep tonight.

 

[AUG168]

I've had a catheter a few times. I would take diapers over it any day. It just freaks me out using one.

 

[UKWearer]

The catheters I use daily are straight catheters, which let me empty my dysfunctional bladder quickly and painlessly. When most people say they've used a catheter and it was horrible, its a Foley catheter in the hospital, and those do tend to be painful (at least for those who don't use them for the long term - you do get used to them eventually!)

An interesting thought . . . . I've been self-cathing for fourteen months now and reckon I'm close to hitting the 2,000 insertions mark. I suspect that those of us who are members of the ISC club probably have more experience of passing catheters than most nurses do? The specialist nurse who coached me in ISC started me off with a 12F, and I've had no reason to change to a wider gauge (if it ain't broke don't fix it). Frequently in hospital the nurse who gets the job will start with a 16F or 18F, which if you've never had anything down there before is sure to make your eyes water!

 

[Napincolove]

My experience of catheters is very much as Cptkirk says only most of the after effects are an infection that then weakens what little bit of control I have left

 

[Pongoandperdi15]

An interesting thought . . . . I've been self-cathing for fourteen months now and reckon I'm close to hitting the 2,000 insertions mark. I suspect that those of us who are members of the ISC club probably have more experience of passing catheters than most nurses do? The specialist nurse who coached me in ISC started me off with a 12F, and I've had no reason to change to a wider gauge (if it ain't broke don't fix it). Frequently in hospital the nurse who gets the job will start with a 16F or 18F, which if you've never had anything down there before is sure to make your eyes water!

There's a big difference between doing it on your self and doing it on someone else though! Your right I've more experience doing it my self on my self but if I were to do it to someone else I'm not sure I'd be able to, you know your own body I can put a cath in start doing it and go.... that's not going in, take five go get another one and come back and sometimes that action of going and getting another cath relaxes my body and I can get it in. Nurses are trained to do everything they can to make it as comfortable as possible I don't think I could talk someone into being relaxed while I shoved a tube up their urethra. Granted we all know that Foley Caths are uncomfortable, ISC is much better I think for most it's getting over those first few months once you've done that it becomes second nature save for the odd time that I've just described where it might hurt and I need to take five.

 

[vaslav]

That's a very good way of putting it.

Some of the confusion comes from the fact that there are two different types of catheters. Foley catheters are left in the urethra to drain the bladder continuously, and are the ones that sometimes get used inappropriately to manage incontinence. Straight caths, on the other hand, are not left in and are used only to manage retention.

Foley caths are usually used in hospitals for patients going through surgery or those who are critically ill. They can cause infections, especially if used long term, and most people find them uncomfortable or painful. Some people who have retention and are unable to use a straight cath have to use a Foley, but that isn't really common.

Most of those who use catheters long term use a straight catheter a few times a day to fully drain the bladder, which prevents infection and typically does not cause any significant discomfort. Like anything put in the urethra, they do carry an infection risk, but this is much lower than the risk from a Foley catheter.

The catheters I use daily are straight catheters, which let me empty my dysfunctional bladder quickly and painlessly. When most people say they've used a catheter and it was horrible, its a Foley catheter in the hospital, and those do tend to be painful (at least for those who don't use them for the long term - you do get used to them eventually!)

For a long time in the 90s, instead of prescribing disposables, my consultant experimented with Hollister external condom catheters for his bedwetters. These could be drained into a bag on a bedside stand: but he was making a trial of keeping the bag in the bed beside you on its integral short tubing. You had to be canny not to roll onto the bag in your sleep and empty the whole lot into your bed! - but usually it worked just fine. An advantage was its compactness: for instance I flew to USA for two months study leave taking a full daily supply of condoms & bags to last the duration - making little bulk in my baggage - so I never had to buy in USA. One problem: the adhesive for the condom was designed to last a longer duration than daily - so it was a bit of a gentle "tug o' war" in the shower each morning, to avoid risk of skin-damage in removing it!
The system was simple and discreet; disposal was easy.

 

[Tenaman]

I have no feeling of needing to pee following a spinal injury and so wear adult nappies 24/7. I was a bed wetter into my teens so used to being put into/wearing a nappy at night. My only experience of catheterisation has been I hospital and every time I have then had a UTI so it is definitely adult nappies for me.