Self catheterizing. I need more info.

My wife once had to go to the ER due to a really bad bladder infection. There they catheterized her and I remember seeing the doctor between her legs and inserting the catheter in her urethra and finding that so erotic! Well then she had to wear a bag tied to her leg for two days, and that was even more erotic. Every time I got to empty her bag or I saw her naked and saw the tube coming out of her crotch, it was a huge turn on.

So now I’m curious about catheterizing myself. Never done it and know nothing about it. What do I need to buy exactly? Any instructions? I want to try it really bad and be able to enjoy being naked with the catheter in me and the bag strapped to my leg for a while.

#1, 2 and 3 thing: STUDY STERILE TECHNIQUE for catheterizing and follow it!

1. Experienced professional guidance can't be beat.

2. Lots of folks self-cath every day. There are lots of solid sources online regarding catheter insertion procedure and technique. This includes medical instructional videos, written material, and presentation. As long as you do your homework, follow instructions to the letter, go slow, don't force anything, and stop if there is any pain, it's really not difficult. If something goes awry however, refer to #1.

I have a fetish for Foley Catheters do it every weekend from Friday to Sunday afternoon

YOU must be clean I use rubber gloves medical Grade after putting the gloves on I wash them with alcohol and then use betadine on gloves and on me and on the Foley before inserting ,,,So far so good no UTI’S ..I do something most people think is wrong but,,,I us a larger syringe like 150 ML mix ½ teaspoon baking soda with a bottle of room temp water and inject in to the bladder and release the balloon left the baking soda water push it out same it cleans the urethra tube .I never burn,, pee just fine after removing Catheter

BE SURE AND PER TEST THE BALLOON BEFORE INSERTING....

Like I say works for me…

If you are reusing foleys , second use of them are not sterile. BTW sterilized foleys are cheap. Can you sterilize the inside of the tube? Alcohol and bentadine kill germs but they don’t sterilize. Your urethra isn’t sterile. Filling your bladder with tap water isn’t sterile. You could be adding new bacteria. Use a protected sterile solution like a sterile IV saline. Maybe someone with more medical info than I can comment on this. I think what you are doing is risky. Be careful. I have no medical credibility. Just my intuition ?

Walk before you crawl get some Intermitent catheters and practice technique with sterile supplies ,once you develope a proper technique,graduate to foley or if you really cheap buy some red rubber rob Nell catheters ,you boil them between uses.

I called a medical supply store and I was told that anything that goes into the body, that I would need a prescription and that the only thing I can get without one, is a condom catheter.

Dear Chubby,

Read all of the posts on this site. Lots of info on how to get online supplies no Rx needed. They don't ask, you don't tell. Further, there is collective experience of a lot of people. they'll tell you the good and bad, how they did it.

While many people do strange things and get away with it, there are many stories here of people who messed with the urethra and bladder and did NOT get away without complications. Infections are common with medical use by doctors and nurses. So amateurs are also at risk. Stories of blood, bleeding, ER visits abound on this site with urethral play. You've been warned.

I used catheters for years, sometimes keeping them in more than a week at a time. (I lost interest four years ago) So I have experience. My advice is don't skimp and short cut. Firstly Use only new supplies. An insertion kit is under $2 and a foley catheter is $1.14 at Allegro. Why would you not skip a latte at Starbucks and buy new medical sterile stuff to put in most delicate part of your body? What is really expensive is urgent care visit for urinary tract infection. Do not experiment with amateur disinfection; you don't know if it works and you can't keep it sterile.

Secondly. Go to the You Tube school of nursing. Take classes in catheter insertion. Incidentally, learn the technique of how to put on sterile gloves. There is a procedure. Gloves are half turned down. Pick up INSIDE of right glove with left hand. Insert right hand, and pull up cuff edge with left hand. Now stick right hand under OUT SIDE of the left glove; insert hand, pull up cuff only touching outside of left glove. Now you're good to go.

Thirdly: Urine has to go somewhere. Large 2 L bags are good in bed. However to walk around I only use Conveen Security leg bags, over 10 years. The drain flip system never leaks (twist ones always leak sometime) and the leg straps are velcro closing; top one is wide, comfy. I've tried them all.