After not having much success with oral meds, physical therapy, diet, and a host of other treatments, my urologist suggesting urodynamics to get a better picture of what is going on, which I had done today.
It was not a pleasant experience. I wasn't expecting it to be. My biggest problem is catheters. I find them extremely painful. they used the smallest one made, but it still about put me through the roof. They even gave me a fairly strong dose of valium before hand to try to relax things "down there", but it didn't help at all. It took them several tries to get the catheter into my bladder. Each time was excruciating. Once it was in, the rest of the testing wasn't too bad except I had a lot of difficulty emptying my bladder with the catheter still in. I was finally able to "go", but it took quite a while. This evening I'm having a lot of pain when I urinate.... They gave me phenzaopyridine for the pain, but it doesn't help all that much. I'm also taking some tylenol. I don't know of any medical procedure I've ever had done that comes close to the pain I experience with a catheter being inserted. It's absolutely horrible for me and I'll never have it done again regardless of what I'm experiencing... NO WAY!
I met with the urologist after he had time to review the results and he said my problem is primarily pelvic floor dysfunction.. I've done many weeks of PT along with valium suppositories, but unfortunately I've not seen any improvement. So he said that because nothing else seems to be working the next step is to try the interstem... So, we'll see how that goes.. And the beat goes on.....
It was not a pleasant experience. I wasn't expecting it to be. My biggest problem is catheters. I find them extremely painful. they used the smallest one made, but it still about put me through the roof. They even gave me a fairly strong dose of valium before hand to try to relax things "down there", but it didn't help at all. It took them several tries to get the catheter into my bladder. Each time was excruciating. Once it was in, the rest of the testing wasn't too bad except I had a lot of difficulty emptying my bladder with the catheter still in. I was finally able to "go", but it took quite a while. This evening I'm having a lot of pain when I urinate.... They gave me phenzaopyridine for the pain, but it doesn't help all that much. I'm also taking some tylenol. I don't know of any medical procedure I've ever had done that comes close to the pain I experience with a catheter being inserted. It's absolutely horrible for me and I'll never have it done again regardless of what I'm experiencing... NO WAY!
I met with the urologist after he had time to review the results and he said my problem is primarily pelvic floor dysfunction.. I've done many weeks of PT along with valium suppositories, but unfortunately I've not seen any improvement. So he said that because nothing else seems to be working the next step is to try the interstem... So, we'll see how that goes.. And the beat goes on.....
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