@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.