Mon Feb 01, 2016 12:05 pm
Ender wrote:Hope surgery (and the outcome) goes well.
Your symptoms sound familiar, especially the urgency with little output and difficulty emptying. I was scoped and diagnosed with 2 (possibly 3, couldn't fit the scope past the second) strictures a few months ago. I have thus far been dilating the strictures using an intermittent catheter, which does help but I need to do it daily to maintain the effect. Surgery may be inevitable. Please update as you can, I'd like to hear how it goes for you.
Tue Feb 02, 2016 1:56 pm
Wed Feb 03, 2016 4:39 am
Baby Brian wrote:Based on what you've said so far it seems to me that re-potty training may be your best, and most natural, permanent chance to regain control.
Wed Feb 03, 2016 4:12 pm
Thu Feb 04, 2016 1:03 pm
Porkchop wrote:JMS, I wish I had something helpful to offer but instead will settle for sending good vibes your way. Hopefully you find a solution that works for you and your lifestyle (active, sedentary, extreme athlete etc).
Thu Feb 04, 2016 5:46 pm
Wed Feb 10, 2016 5:57 am
Baby Brian wrote:Jms, I never meant any disrespect, nor would I expect you to just go with diapers. Maybe I just misunderstood what you had said, or otherwise don't have the full picture here. Maybe we both don't.
OAB just means something is going on with your bladder, it's too general to really mean anything specific type of diagnosis. You had also said your urges before were being caused by a blockage in your urethra- right? You also said that blockage was recently removed, and you seem to be having difficulty holding your pee now- is this also correct? Obviously if you can't hold you pee at all then you aren't getting any more urges (unless you actually are able to hold it at least some, but you didn't say that).
If this is correct, then the most likely thing that has happened is your blockage (based on what you said) was acting more as a valve than your sphincter was. This allowed your sphincter to relax over time (even just a little), so that now the blockage is gone your sphincter is not as strong as it needs to or used to be. If that is the case, then it's actually a good thing since all you will need to do is re-potty train to re-strengthen your muscle. As I had said.
If not, then medications aside, there really isn't a whole lot urologist can do for you. Please trust me on this part, I have quite literally been through every possible option a urologist has in their arsenal. My own problems have also change quite a lot over the years, meaning I have had an unfortunate amount of ranged experience with nearly every single urological problem out there. This is not a joke or understatement either. In addition to this, I found most urologist have little or no idea what they are really even doing. Seriously, have you seen how much guessing and "see if this works" they do? It's no even remotely limited to just me either as I've talked and chatted with a great deal of others. I had to educate myself on it all as a result of my (and their) problems over the years, and while I do not have a degree I am certain I know just as much many urologists out there since I've personally had to educate a bunch of them.
Again, the advice I gave was only based on what little you've mentioned here, and with some logical deductive reasoning, combined with the fair chance I could have misunderstood what you said, then absolutely yes I could be wrong. Still, it's not fair for you to say that I said you should just go with diapers any ways. Especially since I never said that. I merely gave the advice that IF diapers end up being need, that situation is not as bad as it could be.
Wed Feb 10, 2016 11:50 am
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