Hi Christophers,
Thank you for your i post. My bladder stopped working right after I had spinal surgery in October. So right now I’m trying to find myself in relation to what lies ahead. It looks like it’s going to be self catheterization. I’m really not all that knowledgeable about it and I have been kind of putting it off. Presently I have a catheter and I empty several times during the course of the day. I go to the urologist every four weeks and get a new catheter. The technician removes the old catheter and then wipes the tip of my penis before applying lidocaine, which is a numbing cream. After applying it, they waited about five minutes before inserting the catheter. With the self catheterization that you do do you have something like lidocaine that you apply to the head of your penis first. I hope that isn’t too personal a question to ask. Just I have really have not a lot to go by. The number of times that you gather during the day, is that determined by just every so many hours or you get some type of a feeling that you need to void? And doing a little bit of research I see that are different types of catheters can be used. When I start, I’m not sure what I will use. Maybe the neurologist will tell me. Anything is with neurologist they haven’t done this to themselves so I don’t know if they really know the best to advise. I seem to be starting to ramble on. I apologize for that. If you have any other information that you think will help me be more relaxed and not as frightening the amount of the whole situation I’d be so pleased for you to share it with me.
Have a nice afternoon,
2will2