Catheter advice?

[banyangirl]

My boyfriend and I are interested in getting into catheters, but it's difficult to find any places online that discuss it. Has anyone here done it? If so, do you have any tips for us? Positions, ways to minimize the inevitable ouchy beginning, setup and cleanup...? General advice works too! Also, if you've got any experience with sounding, it might still be useful information for us to know about. It's hard finding any resources that are just information and not porn.

 

[His_pet_slut]

Speaking as someone with 2+ decades experience as a nurse, you better be prepared for the necessity of learning to maintain a sterile field unless you want to deal with urinary tract infections. If you have any history of having UTI's, I would say don't.

Beyond that, I don't have a clue where you could obtain safe, sterile supplies without a prescription.

 

[Stella_Omega]

You can get supplies at any medical supply store and online. You don't need a prescription for them.
Sterilisation is important, lube is important, using the right gauge is important.
There is, as the nurses say "a pinch" when it goes in, but you can get to love that pinch in a pavlovian way

Catheterisation isn't as much fun for women as it is for men, and I am not being silly when I say that. it's kind of a kick to know you're catheterised, but men have lots of yummy nerve endings inside the urinary tract that women don't have. The catheter doesn't engage any fun nerve endings in women.

 

[His_pet_slut]

Wow, the things I never knew. Had no clue you could purchase catheters and such without an Rx. Guess I better learn to leave the nursing background in the errr...background. ;-)

 

[vampwrrr]

At the risk of sounding incredibly ignorant, what is the difference between catheterizaton and sounding, other than...well, does catheterization actually involve a bag?

 

[Stella_Omega]

At the risk of sounding incredibly ignorant, what is the difference between catheterizaton and sounding, other than...well, does catheterization actually involve a bag?

yes

Or, it can just dribble out onto the floor, depending.

Sounding is just the act of shoving something into your peehole.

Catheterisation is shoving something tubular and very flexible into your peehole, around a couple of very tight bends, and right into your bladder, to facilitate the removal of urine-- or a few other activities.

 

[danturtle]

At the risk of sounding incredibly ignorant, what is the difference between catheterizaton and sounding, other than...well, does catheterization actually involve a bag?

you don't HAVE to have a bag to be catherterized but it is a lot less messy. if you don't have a bag it is called a 'straight cath' and then, well, it all just goes wherever...

 

[sweettreat601]

Medicaltoys.com has everything you'll need and then some.

 

[jadedgirl]