advice needed about quads IC cathing problems...

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Originally Posted by RehabRhino

I am a C5/6 who was taught to cath himself. I have wrist extension but very little grip and have simply adapted. The hardest thing is wrestling with your clothes.

It used to take me an hour when I was first learning but now it takes less than five minutes and I can do it in the chair out and about in public bathrooms.

I have never understood people who prefer to wear a leg bag and drain constantly. To me this is incontinence while I go to the bathroom and simply have to use a straw, rather than have something attached to my leg and penis all day long. Putting on a condom is far harder than cathing yourself

i don't prefer wearing a leg bag by choice. i had the problem of leaking all the time also. i tried the condom cath method for a while an that was a real pain in the you know what. thats why i opted for the suprapubic. it gives me a whole lot more freedom an independence i think...with the exception of having to wear the bag of course.

[kyle]

thanks for the replies!

can someone just briefly explain each of these, and what is involved in having them done?

bladder augmentation
Interstim?
indwelling catheter
suprapubic catheter

thanks alot!