@brianjarvis I'm keeping my mind open about everything, but until I get to experience catheterization, I won't be able to evaluate all of those treatments fairly.
I'm waiting for a return call from my primary care physician to have me come in and have her NP allow me to experience catheterization. My primary care is already on board, but it takes days to get a call back about anything nowadays.
I believe that a knitting needle is about the same diameter as the average catheter (4-5mm), so I guess I could...🤔
No... I'm totally just kidding... If I messed up my urethra with a knitting needle no urologist would ever take me, or take me seriously, as a patient again.
My ONLY priority right now is to get my fusion biopsy completed...most likely without adequate anesthesia...but just to get it completed no matter how much it hurts, because there is no path to treatment and future pain relief that doesn't go through a biopsy first...and my best chance for finding cancer is a fusion biopsy.