How long were you Incontinent? How did it come back for you?

Posted by golive1952 @golive1952, Jul 29, 2023

I realize this is different for most patients but I am fully incontinent after 3 weeks and often hear people say they didn't have the problem.

Can you offer a short sentence as to the length you experienced this and what came back first? I am able to hold some of it in the middle of the night long enough to get to the bathroom for a 1-2 second stream.

How did it come back for you?

Thanks in advance
Gary O.

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golive1952 | @golive1952 | Aug 26, 2023

I found the same issue if I let the pad get too wet and it seeped through to the depends.

I change the pad about every 1 to 2 hours and only it twice before I change the depends also. If not the lining in the depends gets torn and that is when it jell starts falling out.

I have great success with this the longer I do this. For any long outing (movie, golf, dinner guests) I do both and just change the pad like I said - every 1-2 hours to not let it leak to the depends.

Maybe if you left the tape on it wouldn't tear the depends as easy, so I may try that idea also.