Diapers instead of a catheter ?

Ever tell a nurse that you don't want the catheter. For what ever reason, but that you'll where a diaper instead? If so what did you say? Never had a catheter, but see it as a good excuse to be diapered. I had a bad experience with catheter before and don't want to experience it again. Please diaper me.

If you are sick enough to be in the hospital your probably gonna have a cath anyway! But yes, i have asked for them due to incontinence and yes they diaper me when asked but it's not as much fun as one might think. It feels good but not fun. And very embarrassing to have it done to you also. I was diaper changed one time while my roommates 20 something year old daughters where in the room. My diapers sounded really loud that day for some reason. LOL

The biggest problem that I have is I very easily get a UTI (Urinary Tract Infection) from a Catheter regardless of how sterile it is when it is put in.

This is due to medication that I take which has switched off my immune system in order to prevent my own body attacking itself!

I have to be honest that I would prefer a catheter as it is easier to conceal a bag than a diaper with any changes you require.

But as I have no bladder control and only a small amount of bowel control what other choice is there?

The other thing that is generally need whilst you are 'Acutely' ill in hospital is for your fluid intake and output to be monitored a catheter makes this a lot easier than weighing used diapers etc.

There is no way. I'll never let no one inserting a catheter in my body.

When I went for my surgery a couple weeks ago, I woke up with a catheter in. When they pulled it out, my urethra swelled up and i was pissing razors for the next few days. Had I known they were gonna put in a catheter I would have objected fiercely.

Never had a catheter, and never will. I absolutely refuse to have a catheter.

I would definitely fight a catheter any day. But in our hospitals they use bed pans and those cup like containers to pee in. I guess they are too cheap for diapers.

Bring your own diapers. Hospital diapers are useless anyway. I've been cathetered, and won't do it again.

Hmmm... I have left strict and specific instructions to my kids and a nurse friend that I must NOT be cathetered under any circumstances. I don't want UTIs and a diaper will be OK. I did not say I like diapers... just that it's better than a catheter.

I found it really embarrassing to have my diaper changed by a nurse. After surgery a catheter is easier. You don't get moved around so there is less pain. And yes I did get a UTI from it once but only once.

Ouch no more caths too painful for me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That's one of my biggest fears. It has to be very painful. I have joked with my wife that if it ever comes to that and it's a matter of life and death I will just say I've had a good life. But I'm sure my thoughts might be changed if It ever came to that.

I was cathed three times, once for three weeks following surgery and, twice, for post-surgery complications when scar tissue blocked my urethra and had to be removed.

The caths were the worst part of the whole experience and I thoroughly detest them. As soon as they came out, I went straight into diapers each time.

I have a friend who was a victim of an industrial accident some twenty-five years ago and has never worn diapers for incontinence - always caths. He warned me that I should not use diapers, but caths instead, though I don't really know why. Finally, it has caught up with him and all those years of using caths has now caused some sort of permanent damage.

Maybe you say that now but you are so full & can not pee you let them put a cath, in I know I was there.

I've read that catheters are a source of infection, and you should request a bedpan or diaper:

Avoid a urinary tract catheter if possible.

These catheters, also called Foley catheters, are a common cause of infection. A hospital staff member will thread the tube into your urethra, a passage which is in a man’s penis and just in front of a woman’s vagina. The tube allows urine to flow from your bladder out of your body. Left in long enough, an infection is almost inevitable. Usually the catheter is needed for medical reasons, but if it is only to prevent you from wetting the bed because you can’t get up yet, request a diaper or bed pan instead.

http://www.hudson.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=publication_details&id=3336

I go in wearing a diaper and depending on what and or why I have gone in. I have gone into the surgery room wearing a diaper more than once. If it is a simple procedure I am having, I will stay in the diaper. If it requires an over night stay, a Foley would be used unless I am able to take care of myself.

Use of a catheter is essential following a radical prostatectomy, because the procedure requires the urethra to severed (for removal of the prostate gland), then re-joined. The catheter is put in while under anesthesia and must be used for several weeks, until the urethra heals.

My experience with a catheter was totally unpleasant. As instructed, I kept the entry point of my penis clean and well-lubricated with Polysporin ointment, yet this did not prevent chaffing and much soreness. It was a happy day when the catheter finally could be removed and replaced with diaper-wearing.

A friend of mine, who'd previously suffered an industrial accident, strongly advised me against my intended use of diapers to control my newly acquired incontinence and to rely on catheters, instead. Now, more than thirty years after he began using catheters, he has informed me of serious injury to his urethra tissue resulting from their continuous use.

I just told them that I wasn't going to use a catheter. That they weren't going to put that thing inside my penis. That I would rather be diapered. So they diapered me instead.

My doctor wants me to use catheters all the time instead of diapers. I'll wear diapers! !!!!!!!!

I've never been cath but know about the uti's and for me they hurt like a hot poker being shoved up my rear.

When I became incontinent catheters were never mentioned. I was offered a conveen for night time use which is a sheath that goes over your penis and the urine collects in a bottle attached to a stand but I declined.

I prefer the cath in the hospital and they are more so inclined to use a cath on you anyway. I never tried to get a diaper in the hospital. I would have never declined one but never asked for one.

NO caregiver in a hospital wants anyone in a diaper.

Urinary catheters are tremendously preferred. NOBODY wants to be cleaning excrement off patients, especially adult patients.

If they could, they would use a supersized catheter to suck out the feces to avoid having to change soiled diapers.

It was crazy because last time i was in the hospital for an over dose and lost control of my bladder i asked for a catheter and they stuck me in a diaper. It wasn't a pleasant experience though and it was the worst kind, those cheap plastic blue ones that leaked everywhere no matter what.

The first "continence adviser" I saw was very determined I should have a catheter, I refused as I had been warned infections were easily caught by this method, so she shifted to the sheath and bag which I tried and did not get on with at all.

Next thing I tried was an absorbant insert with plastic pants and got on very well with them and have stayed with what worked for me all those years ago.

My experience was a bit different. I was in the hospital a total of 5 weeks - was sent home for 1 week but then went back with a massive internal infection. Had a catheter for about 2 months in total. When I went back to the hospital they put in a superpubic catheter - the tube went right in my belly into my bladder. Diapers were never an option because I was on a continuous IV to keep things flushing. Once everything was going good, they sent me home. Two things they didn't tell me: 1) that those muscles you use to 'hold it' would get super weak and 2) that even after they took the tube out, there was still a hole into my bladder. I found both out the hard way. So the only way to deal with that was diapers.

My last visit to the "continence" advisor was very interesting as she was determined to get me using an alternative method, ie. a catheter, and she fixed it all up for me to go and try one. But on arrival at the clinic the nurse went nuts at the thought that anyone should even suggest a catheter as with my being fairly active she said it would be a disaster and would need constant repositioning and I would get infection after infection.

My first condom sheath gave me an infection and that just added to my "lack of control" making things worse.

So happily I will stay with what works for me!

If you have your prostate removed, you will have a catheter for 2 - 3 weeks. End of story. I hope never to have another one in me and would argue in favor of diapers if they are at all a reasonable alternative.

I would NOT want a catheter as I've had a ton of UTI's.

I would NOT want a catheter as I've had a ton of UTI's.

Don't blame you - from what I've heard UTI's can get pretty serious in males. During surgery, most likely they would Cath you prior to the operation.