Tell me something, you cathing ones, do your fingers work right, or are they like mine, numb & dumb (can't quite hold a pen or cup, etc.)?

Cin,

I hate to do this cause it's such a serious subject and I am in NO WAY making fun...

but I woke up today and the first thing that came into my mind when I sat down for daily meditation in the meditation room was Marshall Tucker Band's song...Do you remember "Can't You See, oh can't you see..what that woman's been doing to me"

When I was much younger and sillier, I used to sing it as ....

"Can't you peeeee? Oh can't you pee..."

( end of OT silliness!)

I don't have problems with numb fingers, but I do know of people who cath and have awful tremors and cath. GET THEE TO A DR. TOMORROW YOUNG LADY!!! You don't want to end up with a Urinary Tract Infection! OK???????

No my fingers aren't numb, but my co-ordination's out of whack. You should see me trying to get my aim right.......no, on second thoughts, I don't think we'll go there.

Please listen to what Chris said, get checked out. I'm sure you know UTI's aren't fun at all.

TMI! TMI! TMI! TMI! TMI!

My husband has problems with this as well!

AMN,
I know I'm coming in late with this, but what you're describing happens to me when I've had to take more than a usual amount of Percocets. (7.5/500s) I can tell I have to go, I know I need to go, but then I stand there and practically have to concentrate on it.

Told the urologist about it, he did a sonogram (sp) on my bladder. ---Full and empty.--- Turns out it's just an odd side effect of the pain pills.

Anyway, I hope you get the relief you need soon.

So its working again?

Arg!

I was gonna wait till Nappy was taking a nappy and then sit her finger in the cup of warm water and

snicker*

AMN, I hope you plan on following thru with the doctor visits..I'm not in the self-cathing club yet, but last neuro visit they did an ultrasound on my bladder and it wasn't good.
Kinda funny, actually..I don't feel like I have to go until I stand up & walk around. Within seconds I'm running to the bathroom ("running"..Ha). When I get there, nothing..Nada..Zilch. Too bad girls can't go standing up..

i have tjis kind of problem too and thankfully it was relatively short lived most of the time i have the opposite problem of urgency but i was sent to a Continence Nurse for assessment and she was able to do a very simple ultra sound pre and post peeing to see how much residual urine was in my bladder post peeing. Not only can retained urine lead to UTI but it can also lead to reflux back up towards the kidneys where it can do serious renal damage. I now see the Continence Nurse at least yearly for a check just to be sure that my residual volumes are not increaing