I am in shock – the good kind. They did my monthly suprapubic catheter change today and there was virtually no pain! The reason this is so amazing to me is that all my previous changes, except the one done as part of my diagnostic surgery (See my post about that procedure – Results Of […]
What Is Antegrade Urethrogram?
Do you know what an antegrade urethrogram is? One thing I’m finding out is that in urology, there are a lot of terms that just need looking up, because they are not common to lay people like me, who is just trying to make it through the many months I have to wear a suprapubic […]
Pants To Wear With A Suprapubic Catheter
I saw that someone had found this site by searching “pants to wear with a suprapubic catheter,” and I thought that was an excellent question, since I have been dealing with this myself. What type of pants you wear with a suprapubic cather depends on which bag you are wearing. With a bedside drainage bag The […]
Indwelling Foley Catheters Becoming A Thing Of The Past?
I just read an article about The Simon Foundation for Continence, and their series of conferences called Innovating for Continence: The Engineering Challenge. In 2011 they invite three experts in the fields of infections disease, urinary tract infections and urology – Roger Feneley, Calvin Kunin and David Stickler to speak at the conference. The theme was that indwelling Foley catheters […]
My Stricture Of The Urethra
The reason I have a suprapubic catheter is due to my stricture of the urethra. I know, I didn’t know what that meant either. So you can be one step ahead of me by knowing that a stricture of the urethra is basically scar tissue inside the urethra that grows large enough to prevent you […]
Tip For Wearing A Leg Bag With A Suprapubic Catheter
We long-term urinary catheter wearers need two types of drainage bags. One is for sleeping and/or wearing around the house when you don’t have anyone REALLY close coming by for a visit. That is the bedside drainage bag. It has a long, thick, heavy-duty plastic tube leading down to a quite-large bag with handles on […]
What Is A Suprapubic Catheter?
What is a suprapubic catheter? It is one of the two kinds of urinary catheters used to drain urine directly from the bladder into a drainage bag outside the body. The other kind – the more common one – is a urethral catheter, which (as it sounds) goes up through the urethra into the bladder. […]