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Pitchbb Asked December 2020

What to do for urinary incontinence issues?

Among the many problems since my husbands TIAs 3 years ago, complicated by dementia, a slow decline, balance, walking, BM issues, weakness to get to the bathroom in time. Dealing with bathroom issues during the day is tolerable but night time I am up several times because of his urge to urinate. He wears depends, have the bed pads but helping him get up, pull down the depends, holding the urinal ends up a burst of urine all over and then waiting for the rest or nothing even though I know he has not emptied. Sometimes there is success after waiting what seems like an hour, I’m exhausted, tired, cranky. If he doesn’t finish, it’s back to bed after cleaning up and changing only for it to repeat sometimes within a few minutes or within an hour or two. He just got over a UTI and to make sure he’s ok can’t even get a clean sample to recheck. He’s also had cyber knife treatment for prostate cancer 2 years ago which is when this urine incontenance issues started. They say the radiation can enlarge or inflame the prostate. He was given an incontenance med and it seemed to work for a while but now I think it’s preventing him from fully emptying so I have stopped it and find no difference. I have sat in the urologist office hours because he can’t give a sample on a full bladder scan and then empty scan. It’s like a catch 22.

funkygrandma59 Dec 2020
My husband for about 8 months, was getting up every hour on the hour to pee, and because he was at this point, a fall risk, I had to get up with him all night long. I was beyond exhausted. I didn't know if I was coming or going. We tried everything, from 4 different bladder medications, to botox in his bladder, and finally he ended up getting a supra pubic catheter(which is a permanent catheter). That was a Godsend, as we were finally able to sleep through the night, and I only had to empty his bag twice a day. You might want to talk to his urologist about that, so you both can get some rest. Best wishes.

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