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Posted 11/15/2013 7:19 PM (GMT 0)
Uh oh! Help! Catheter out today. The pads I was given last 30-60 mins at most.

How am I supposed to sleep tonight ?

Urgent suggestions needed. 8pm London now
Posted 11/15/2013 7:26 PM (GMT 0)
depends for adults.

Prior to my surgery I made the mistake of buying a large supply of these. The day I went to take my cath out I wore one.

Don't drink before bedtime perhaps?

I'm sue others who who went through the same thing will speak up shortly.
Posted 11/15/2013 7:33 PM (GMT 0)
First things first:

1. use a waterproof bedliner

2. I used depends and sometimes stuck in a huge pad inside

3. Don't drink after6 or 7 pm

4. Later when things get better, always be close to a bathroom

I too went through about 9-10 pads during the day. laying and sitting are the best positions to begin holding urine.

When you return to work, if you work, carry LOTS of extra pads. good luck things will improve.
Posted 11/15/2013 7:58 PM (GMT 0)
I used a walgreen's, then later depends adult pant, with a tena women's heavy pad stuck inside the first day or two. The depends guard wasn't enough for many weeks.

Change the pad as needed, the pant is a backup.

As already mentioned, limit water the two hours before bed, but during the day, keep drinking still water even if you pass too much - keeps the irritation & potential infections of the bladder down.

Kegels, do them a couple or three times a day, not all in one big session.
Posted 11/15/2013 8:26 PM (GMT 0)
I went thru a depends every 40-60 minutes the first two days, I recall feeling very discouraged!! Surprisingly by 2nd night I remained dry while laying down flat, had to get up hourly to visit bathroom however. First sense of control was at night while sleeping.

Keep your chin up improvements will come sooner than your now expecting. I was completely dry by end of 3rd week except for occasional stress leak, now days I have stress leak once a month at most.

Before surgery I used to drink a half pot of coffee before turning in and sleep 8 hours straight, afterwards when I was getting up hourly I cut back liquids two hours before turning in. Now 5 months post surgery I'm back to 1/2 pot coffee again, but get up twice during the night.
Posted 11/15/2013 9:15 PM (GMT 0)
My wonderful son went out in the freezing cold to the local supermarket, thankfully open, and got large pants for men

I should be able to actually sleep tonight. I am completely exhausted, and thankful.
Posted 11/15/2013 11:53 PM (GMT 0)
Oh no. Woke up with pants leaking out the side. I had even doubled up the pants similar to Tena Level 4.

Not sure what to do now. Very very depressed and exhausted
Posted 11/16/2013 12:47 AM (GMT 0)
Ditto the bed liner. I "wet" the bed thru the depends many times the first year. Eventually my body was trained to get up every 2 hours to pee and change the depends. I can't tell you how many times I had to sleep on bath towels half of the night. Many times I was the first one up and stripping my side of the king size bed and doing laundry. I just pushed thru it all. It will get better. Like clock work at 1 yr, I was 98% continent all of the time. Regards Inkhorn
Posted 11/16/2013 1:32 AM (GMT 0)
When I said heavy pad, I mean the big ones that will absorb a flood. We're not talking anything with wings or ultra dry fiber. I bought hundreds of them. Put those inside the pants. Double coverage.

And yes, I put the plastic sheet down, then the regular sheets, then an "underpad", which is an absorbent pad used for pets and the bed-ridden.

My sheets got washed daily. Became part of the routine.
Posted 11/16/2013 1:32 AM (GMT 0)
So tired. Maybe will try reclining position in bed with pads handy
Posted 11/16/2013 4:28 AM (GMT 0)
Being tired isn't helping at all.....Get some rest. Sleep in the recliner for a time.  When you laydown the body fluid collects in the worst spot for those of us trying not to pee our beds...Stop drinking 2.5 hours before bed at least...

Gotta keep going it will get better...all these guys have been through it an you can too...I went to a movie on week three of my recovery and even after peeing at least three times during the movie I pissed myself just before the end and had to bail out a fire escape door because there was no way for me to make it the extra 30 feet to the bathroom.  I peed outside and dared the world to speak lol...Sat in the car and waited on wife to come out.  I was soaked in the front.

I still pee the bed once a quarter or so if I am sleeping very hard.  I am up at least three time minimum in 7 hours but usually its worse the first 1.5 hours...I'm as little over two year out.

I still do kegels occasinally.

We pulling for ya brother...

Posted 11/16/2013 4:52 AM (GMT 0)
Definitely don't purposely avoid drinking water, you don't want to get dehydrated for starters, and you need to continue to flush debris and toxins out of your body post surgery.

Helps to avoid all sodas, beer, OJ and other citrus type juices, and anything with caffeine in it.

You should see slow but steady progress over time.

Good luck,

David
Posted 11/16/2013 5:01 AM (GMT 0)
It will get better. I had no control whatsoever for the first month or so but I found that I leaked slower laying down and I could get through most nights with a single pair of Depends pull-up incontinence underwear. My bladder would wake me up a couple of times during the night and I would perform the manual hose-clamp maneuver to allow myself to stand up and toddle to the toilet. If I didn't grab it before I stood up I would have been empty before I got to the john.
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