Urine Volume

AmyK,

Not sure I would have done it, but interesting explanation. And well over 2 quarts in your bladder is a HUGE bladder filling. Even waiting to normally pee until you urinate a quart is a very large natural bladder filling. If you should ever decide to fill yourself at some point again, I'd certainly recommend you stop the fill when you start experiencing pain, since that usually indicates at least something is abnormal and could represent tearing or bleeding. I'm glad you had no ill effects, especially infectious or traumatic, from your experiment.

Eric

Isn’t there some risk inserting large volumes into your bladder of some solution backing up into the kidneys ? That’s why they cath people with retention problems.

Isn’t there some risk inserting large volumes into your bladder of some solution backing up into the kidneys ? That’s why they cath people with retention problems.

Yet another risk, of overpressurizing or infecting the kidneys.

Eric

I have a large bladder capacity. Recently I had some knee surgery and couldn’t urinate afterwards, so I was straight cathed in the recovery room, yielding 900 ml.

When I have self catheterized, if my bladder seems “full” I’ve been know to get 1000 ml.

For me, 800 ml is the start of the full sensation and 1200mL is the painful immediate need. However, I am 6'5" and 325 lbs. My play partner is 5'2" and 130 lbs. She feels full about 250 ml and painful at 400ml. It is a very individual thing. Just as what size catheter is comfortable.

I once had a medical problem and diidnt urinate for almost 5 days, the problem resolved in my sleep ,i trashed a hospital room with urine so badly that it ran out into the hallway, the nurses said it would take hours to clean the room ,it was middle of night ,so instead of having me stay up waiting ,I got a diaper and an entire new hospital room,I had an enormous bladder and giant prostate . I have been cathing every 4 hours for 9 years to shrink my bladder , my urologist wants my bladder capacity reduced down to 50-100ML ,a basicaly incompetent bladder so my wettings are frequent and small instead of large and random .

SO, after reading this post a week or so ago, I decided to measure what volume I typically hold. One morning I got up normally and measured 1200ML. I was surprised because I wasn't in any emergence to get to the bathroom. I think I could easily hold 1500ML, and maybe more if needed. Being plugged by a catheter I would think I could hold 2 Liters .