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Bladder ureteral obstruction/stricture
Kidney & Bladder | Last Active: Jan 16 7:57am | Replies (65)Comment receiving replies
@jackpine
I believe your wise trying to avoid surgery and in dwelling catheters. I suppose I’m overly cautious but in your situation primarily because of your age but potentially other issues as well. Environmental factors, co-morbidities, medical procedures which likely will increase with age and may increase risks/outcome. I seem to always be the fly in the ointment.” I don’t like always being so negative but there are two sides to the story and you/we as patients are not receiving full disclosure of all the facts from both sides. I resent how doctors often spout off all the benefits and conceal potential risks regardless of how unlikely or rare they are. Well, this seems to be more of a rant so I better knock it off.
I hope your situation turns out for the best and good luck for now and in the future and don’t fear being devils advocate.
Take care,
Jake
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Yes and there could have been ways to possibly head off the TUR surgery which created this severe incontinence. That's why I'm looking at Mayo and Hopkins.
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@jakedduck1 , @jackpine I am personally glad I have never started indwelling catheters. I use a very stiff catheter made in France, I believe. It is stiff like an O2 tube. My sphincter above the prostate is tougher and stiffer than the miner's boots I used to wear. Takes a good shove to get the cath in, so I bleed a lot. But I prefer that to the indwelling. And I have used them for 10 years, and I am still alive., sometimes up to a 1/8 cup of clots and blood a day. The sphincter is tough because it has been invaded by fibrils from Gelsolin and lost nerve control through LGMD4.