William Michael Greene wrote:

*DEMAND* your ER use their ultrasonic bladder content gauge to measure
the urine volume in your bladder. After two surgeries years apart
(cranial, prostate, and colon), my catheters stopped flowing several
times. Several nurses and 2 or 3 doctors all refused to believe my
cathetered bladder was painfully full until I very painfully dragged my
heavily drugged and badly ravaged carcass (both of my surgeries were
pretty serious) out of bed on my own, dry heaved due to instant motion
sickness after my cranial surgery, manipulated both flesh and plastic,
and cut loose into their plastic bags with dangerously high quantities
of urine ... WAY over a quart until I learned to absolutely DEMAND
relief sooner. I finally removed my own damned catheter a couple of days
early after my prostate surgery; it was that or burst, IMO.

Pills, my a.s. If you feel full, you may be full, and that's dangerous.
If the bladder ultrasound (they wave a hand-held widget over your
abdomen and pronounce, "600 milliliters" or whatever) shows an empty
bladder, THEN and only then consider medicines. Any doctor who tells me
to take a pain pill to mask undiagnosed pain is likely to be facing a
medical board of inquiry after he picks himself up off the floor; I'm
getting that sick and tired of these lazy, arrogant cretins who think
we're stupid.

If I sound angry, it may be because I'm angry. I've had to manage my own
treatment WAY too often, sometimes in life-threatening circumstances.
The sad part is that I'm an engineer, not a doctor.

Go pee.

I.P.
U.P.
Wee All P.
And if we don't ... THERE MAY BE A REASON.

Welcome to the club, William...  or may I call you Bill?

I didn't have the surgery or problem that you describe.  I am certain one of
the fine men here will reply with their experience.  Just wanted to welcome
you to the club no one every applied for.

On Jul 15, 3:38 pm, William Michael  Greene <wm...@bellsouth.net>
wrote:

Might be bladder spasms.  But I was getting urine flow around the
outside of the catheter too.  There's a drug they prescribe for that.
Bladder spasms are very painful.  I started getting them a few days
before the catheter was to come out.

Bladder Spasm.....
Bladder trying to rid itself of the catheter.
Those do subside.
There also are complications that only your Dr. can help you with.
Get down there today.
jloomis

I suggest that you sit in a hot bath 4-5 times a day with the sole purpose
to urinate. An RN told me as I was leaving with my seeding procedure, to do
this and it worked. The only other remedy was a cath... Good luck\
GD