Thank you for the information, Erika.

I don't believe I would care to have the procedure you described done on me. But, my history with UTIs will be different than the majority with this disease.

I started having chronic UTIs at the age of 4. The cause of my UTIs was diagnosed as retention, bladder not completely empting. I was on medication once a month due to UTIs.

The thought was I needed to be cathed, which was done once a month and hospitalized for the procedure once, to stretch the Urethra. This was supposed to help retention, it did not This was done until the age of twelve with no change in the frequency of UTIs.

A Urologist whom I started seeing at the age of 13 told my mother not to allow any doctor to cath me as this was not doing anything for me but causing pain.

To this day I still deal, off and on, with chronic UTIs. Unfortunately, I now find I can have UTIs but I am asymptomatic.