Do you cath overnight?

[keps]

Originally Posted by friedgreenpea

I cath whenever I feel I need to go. I can feel when I need to pee and it feels just like it did before I had my injury.
Does it feel the same to everyone or is it just me being incomplete? I have all of my feeling.

It's you being incomplete.
My injury's complete and I have no bladder sensation. I know when I'm desperate to pee (full bladder) when I get goosebumps/headache from autonomic dysreflexia.

[mimin]

Originally Posted by friedgreenpea

I cath whenever I feel I need to go. I can feel when I need to pee and it feels just like it did before I had my injury.
Does it feel the same to everyone or is it just me being incomplete? I have all of my feeling.

Complete here, I don't even remember what it feels like to need to pee.

[jessie.gray]

Originally Posted by RehabRhino

But if you've got high bladder pressure ignoring it at night could do long term harm to your kidneys due to reflux.

Is it really that big a deal to cath at night? I wake up, do it, go back to sleep.

I didn't even think of this at all. I think I'll start setting my alarm to go off at least once during the night to cath (I've had kidney infections due to reflux and they are not fun). I can always keep a urinal and a hydrophillic catheter next to my bed, so I don't have to get out of bed to cath and can go back to sleep quickly.

Jessie

[leschinsky]

Originally Posted by mimin

Complete here, I don't even remember what it feels like to need to pee.

Not comfortable! but sooo much better now that I can cath myself when full.

I cath 4-6 hours during the day but have always gone 8-9 hours during the night with no problems.

[sjean423]

Originally Posted by keps

It's you being incomplete.
My injury's complete and I have no bladder sensation. I know when I'm desperate to pee (full bladder) when I get goosebumps/headache from autonomic dysreflexia.

Yup, I can sometimes tell when it is really full .... I get that antsy feeling .... like before when you are pacing outside the bathroom door, becase you can;t even stand still to wait? But I am just starting to recognise it. Or AD hits.

Originally Posted by jessie.gray

I can always keep a urinal and a hydrophillic catheter next to my bed, so I don't have to get out of bed to cath and can go back to sleep quickly.

Jessie

I can usually make it from last thing before sleep until morning, but that is what I do. And morning isn;t necessarily when I get up. I may cath at 6:30 or so, and then go back to sleep.

Since you aren't making it overnight, it probabably isn;t good. Waking up wer once in a while is one thing, but all the time I think is a sign you need to change something.

[november]

I could and have gone all night...probably 12 hrs at times with no problems(besides uti!). I always cath right before bed and don't really restrict my fluids.

The big problem with waiting was I was setting myself up for uti's. I use a very sterile technique. New cath kit each time, wash hands or use sanitizer, gloves, etc but still I would gradually get one and my urine was always a little cloudy unless I drank way too much. Now I cath every 4 or 5 hours, just set my alarm and fall right back to sleep. I'm half asleep when I cath. My urine has never been as clear as it is now that I started this. It's clear like when on antibiotics! It isn't a big hassle to break up my sleeping and nice to not restrict fluids at all. I usually take gatoraid and a pitcher of water to bed. I know bacteria grows fast after a certain number of hours and that was my main problem.

To the other question...yes I feel when I'm full. I got a 'I gotta go' pee dance, just like AB days. I don't cross my legs or grab my crotch though, well I take that back, lol.

[keps]

Originally Posted by sjean423

Yup, I can sometimes tell when it is really full .... I get that antsy feeling .... like before when you are pacing outside the bathroom door, becase you can;t even stand still to wait? But I am just starting to recognise it. Or AD hits.

This feeling...is it connected to AD? I feel anxious and weird, but it's only because of the AD with me, I'm sure.

[sjean423]

No, its like that "gotta go" dance November mentioned. I just can't sit still. I am just connecting it .... it is somewhat new, along with the fact that I get a funny feeling in my lower abdomen. Last night I went out to eat with my daughters, and we all had a large iced tea. They both hit the ladies room before they left, so I knew obviousy, I probably needed to go as well. I didn;t bother there, since we were heading right home, but all the way in the car I had to keep re positioning, just couldn;t sit still.

I usually leak before ad hits actually, but my leaking is random .... not always at a specific volumn, so therefore whether I start with some ad is random. My "have to pee" ad is more a headachy, nauseous, clammy feeling. But I have never connected the antsy feeling to ad, so maybe it was? I didn;t leak, and cathed over 600, so based on my previous experiences, I should have been starting with ad.

It has woken me a few times in the night as well, only I haven;t always connected it fast enough.

But I am trying to listen to my body better.

[sjean423]

Originally Posted by november

The big problem with waiting was I was setting myself up for uti's. <snip> I know bacteria grows fast after a certain number of hours and that was my main problem.

I see this as well, if I cath first thing when my hubbies alarm goes off at 6, even if I go back to sleep after, things are usually pretty good, but if for some reason I over sleep and go too long things look iffy for a few days.

I also see this with large volumes .... after last nights "too full" mine is iffy today.

[keps]

Originally Posted by sjean423

No, its like that "gotta go" dance November mentioned. I just can't sit still. I am just connecting it .... it is somewhat new, along with the fact that I get a funny feeling in my lower abdomen. Last night I went out to eat with my daughters, and we all had a large iced tea. They both hit the ladies room before they left, so I knew obviousy, I probably needed to go as well. I didn;t bother there, since we were heading right home, but all the way in the car I had to keep re positioning, just couldn;t sit still.

Right, I think I understand. We really are all so different with our injuries.

I usually leak before ad hits actually, but my leaking is random .... not always at a specific volumn, so therefore whether I start with some ad is random. My "have to pee" ad is more a headachy, nauseous, clammy feeling. But I have never connected the antsy feeling to ad, so maybe it was? I didn;t leak, and cathed over 600, so based on my previous experiences, I should have been starting with ad.

It has woken me a few times in the night as well, only I haven;t always connected it fast enough.

But I am trying to listen to my body better.

I don't always get AD at a specific volume either. Nowadays it's usually at around 300mls, but sometimes I'm ok until 500mls, and other times it's 250mls.
I will pee myself if I don't cath after goosebumps, but I do seem to get a little time, and it's been a long time since I last peed myself (I don't get UTIs, which helps).