Sounding sessions

I've found the same to be true with catheter insertion - attempting to urinate helps to open the spincter and allows the catheter to pass more easily. I still end up with intense burning for 24 hours though. 😮

I've read that younger guys (females too?) normally have more sensitive urethras. NO idea if this is true or not.

I usually have some pain after any uretheral insertion when urinating for about 12 hours, but I am wondering if it could be due to (in part) the lubricant. I have used sterile KY product, and also sterile Surgilube. It seems maybe the Surgilube results in less stinging when I pee later. I have thought about trying mineral oil, but I seem to remember seeing in some posts here and ther that it is not recommended due to some type of increased chance of infection or something. Has anyone ever tried cath or sound lube using oil? I know the oil will break down rubber products, but I also know that it won't break down a Foley in the 20 to 30 minutes or so it might be in use. Any thoughts here?

Burning for me subsides within a few hours after heavy play. For sure drink a lot of fluids and have a full bladder when you start so that as soon as you are done you can expel and flush your bladder.

On 2 occasions, several years apart i managed to get UTI's because i wasn't careful enough. 10 days of oral antibiotics cleared it up, but still not fun. be VERY careful to with sterile technique. Don't take chances. I thought i was careful (early in my experimenting days) and have since studied enough to avoid this again.

@yesmaam - I think you would have a tough time finding sterile mineral oil. Mineral oil can be very irritating in and of itself, I really don't recommend it. I find that the Surgilube that is packed in the individual sachets is more likely to cause irritation than the same substance packed in the tube. I suspect, but don't know for a certainty, that the difference is in the relative concentration of bacteriostat. Nonetheless, sterile lubricant in an individual packet is definitely the way to go.

I've always wanted to try being sounded but putting something up there seems dangerous.

For me, it depends on how intense the sounding or cath session is or how long it lasts. I've never experienced burning longer than 24 hrs. after, however.

When I was a young teen I tried to stick grass stems into my penis and sometimes could get one in an inch or two. It hurt but also felt good and it led me to masturbate afterwards. The feeling was always more intense after the grass, I guess because of the irritation. I have never gone back to something like that but sometimes think it might be fun to try.

I was "playing" with a friend who had a set of pratt sounds (I think), and the stretched my urethra was a procedure which I found extremely sensual. The sounds had been boiled, and soaked in some solution to keep them sterile. The mild pain in the right atmosphere was astounding. I had a lil bleeding afterwards but no lasting effects. I enjoyed it, but for reasons out of my control, we never had the chance to repeat the experience. What made me comfortable about the whole session was that the sterilization procedure was described to me in great detail, and needless to say there were no lasting effects afterwards to worry about.

Michelle

No thanks. just something that doesn't appearl to me.................. at all.

Careful , in my youth objects were forced in my penis till now I have strictures and have to be stretched two or three times a year whether or not I want to, and having some one you don't care for doing this just makes me fell like crap . My wife took care of this for years and it was wonderful , This week I had it done by our family doc and I felt like I had been used and thrown away , And charged for it!!!!!

When done properly it is a great feeling. Sterile lube, gloves and sounds are mandatory. The sound should fall into the urethra. No need to push it in. No pain should exist. Have fun!

Can be great fun

From everything everyone is describing, I need to try this.

Try stainless steel chopsticks, cheap and easy to clean

Use the thick end not the thin, it;s nicely rounded

I got a vibrating sound

I love playing with sounds. I have made two van Buren sounds and one straight sound. They're made out of 5/16 stainless. Its a lot fun to make them. But its more fun to play with them. I haven't figured out how to make rose bud sounds yet though. Its still in my engineering dept.!lol

In all the home hardware stores there is an electrical wiring area. There are solid copper wires available from .5mm (way too small) to 15mm in diameter. They are sold by the foot and diameter. You can make them into any custom length and configuration you want. The ends must be rounded and smoothed with sand paper or something. You can high polish them. You can start small and stretch with diameter.

I am new to this site, but wow I had no idea there were so many people as normal as I am. I have always had a fascination with sticking stuff in my penis. This started when I was young. I had a blockage from a odly formed bladder. I was placed in the hospital and can remember only one thing. My Doctor....believe it or not was named Dr. Pain.....no joke. After a couple of days of hot baths and more cranberry juice than I can emagine. The doctor decided it was time for Mr. Foley. WOW a gardeen hose shoved up my pecker....what a feeling. I would lay in the hospital bed at night just feeling this rubber tube in my penis. Actually the first time I became aware of an erection. It was so cool. Flash forward to the early thirty yrs. I found a kit online called "haigler dialators" baught it for 50 bucks and have not looked back.

I really like to be sounded by my GF while tied. She slowly strokes me with the sound in and this is heaven.

I have enjoyed being sounded for quite some time.

I just bought a set of rosebud sounds. I love them. They are definitely different from a van Buren. I'm still learning things about this. Every session brings up something a little different from the last.

Not something i have tried yet , but i would like to , sounds a bit nippy though

Yes have had sounds use on me, I like the feel and my nurse likes it also with the control on me.

I have Van Buran, Dittle and Pratt sound sets. I up to a 35 Fr Pratt all the way to the bladder now. I can take larger but only part of the way. The 32FR van buran just slips all the way very easy all by it self. What a great feeling when it goes in. I wear 24fr to 30fr caths now with belly bag. I use my sounds about 4 times a week stretch things more. I also have a meatotomy the base of my glands.

Had a doctor insert a tube inside me and then fill my bladder with water for tests. How different is that from the experience of using sounds.

Substeve53, the procedure you describe is called urodynamics. It is considerably different from being sounded. Urodynamics uses catheters which are soft, flexible tubes. Sounds are stainless steel and as such, are neither soft nor flexible. Catheters are used to provide a clear pathway for urine to leave the body or to instill fluids (such as sterile saline). Sounds are used to measure depth (as in taking a sounding in nautical terms). Sounds can also be used to widen strictures in the urethra. For our purposes here on the forum they are really more for sensation.

Hope this answers the question!

LadyDoc (who likes catheters AND sounds)

Just joined this site. I've tried a little bit of sounding on myself. It feels good but I'm not sure how far I should push it.

If using something fairly straight like Pratt dilators, allow gravity to do the insertion. Do not push!

I like using a vibrating sound. It doesn't go in very deep but it feels wounderful to the point of ejaculation while flacid. I sterilize it using alcohol and rinse under hot water. Also warming it up first under warm water is much more pleasureable than inserting cold.

Has anyone had a bad infection as a result of urethral play? What frequency. Just curious.