I am a nurse also and agree with Nurse Judy. How long has tis been going on with the catheters leaking and if has not been very long could it be that this particular batch of catheters are faulty since it really sounds like the balloon is slowly leaking or wasn't inflated enough. have the nurses ever tried to inflate it more when they come during the one month period of time that it was inserted. And yes, there is a procedure where a catheter is inserted into the abdomen. When I was working it was jsut done as a same day surgery procedure although it only lasted a couple of hours or less. But that same type of catheter is inserted into s small hole that the urologist makes in the abdomen. This was only used for patients for patients they knew were going to be forever long term. Now Judy mentioned a procedure something like a colostomy. That is a whole different thing. It is a surgical procedure in which the tube that goes from the kidney to the bladder (making the bladder non functional)is rerouted to the outside of the abdomen and you wore a collecting bag on your stomach which you had to empty when you saw that it was full.

You are very right, it is a mess and it shouldn't be happening. Could it be that you are having bladder spasms which is squeezing some urine out each time you have a spasm?