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Some people leave them in for months, safely. For practical reasons, I never had one in for more than a week or so. I would just take off the old diaper, wipe things down, put a new one on. Commonly take the old one off and then shower then put a new one in. If you're going more than a minute without your diaper, you need a catheter plug. You will leak and you will have no control over it. https://www.amazon.com/10-Sets-Catheter-Plugs-Individually/dp/B0DL4TX7HH

You want a foley cath, yeah it's not perfect or ideal to have something sticking out of the end to start with, but, it's where you should start Go to indemedical and buy a variety of them in qty 1 or 3. A few different sizes and different brands even. What I ended up being comfortable with was the AMSure 2-Way 100% Silicone Foley Catheters. The size is going to vary but I ended up being comfortable at a 18fr. You can start with 12fr and work your way up. Avoid coude tips, they are weirdly angled for people who have obstructions to try to work past them. Avoid "barbed" tips, I do not know why these exist but the only truly painful experience I had was with one of those. Buy a few insertion trays as well. They include cleaning supplies, gloves, lube and a pre-filled syringe. While I found them very useful to have the first few times, ultimately I don't use their gloves (they are cheap/shitty but sterile latex), and I don't use all their cleaning supplies (it's very messy betadine stuff -- I just wipe myself down with a few baby wipes first) and I bought a box of 100 syringes and 100 lube packets for less than a single insertion tray. Buy some cranberry pills or drink a lot of cranberry juice. Wear gloves when inserting or removing. It's going to be uncomfortable going in the first few times especially, but it should never be painful. If it's painful slow down and take a deep breath and relax. Sometimes rotating the catheter helps too. Once you've gotten comfortable with the insertion and wearing and removal process, you can graduate to other things like a holey foley or stents, or maybe you just don't like it and you won't continue or maybe you're happy with just the catheter and you stop there, only experimentation can tell.

I started experimenting with this this weekend. It's really awesome, highly recommended. I mention this on another thread here about it but UTIs are avoidable and manageable if you're smart about things. Be very clean when inserting the catheter, I've been supplementing with cranberry pills to keep the UTIs away and haven't had any but I also have a stock of antibiotics on hand, though I haven't had to use it fortunately. As far as pain is concerned, it's not a painful thing to do. There can be some discomfort on insertion and after wearing for a few days but the only painful experience I had was when I was sizing up the catheter to see what my "correct" size was. Moved from an 18fr to a 20fr and when it reached my bladder neck I knew within a second it was too big and uncomfortable (briefly painful while trying to pass it). Sized back down to an 18fr and I was 100% good to go. Try it, you won't regret it!

Sounds fun. I'll bite. Yesterday was an interesting one, so, I guess I'll start there. For those who haven't read anything else I posted here, I've been experimenting with catheters for the past month or so and spent the past week or so cathed. Obviously have no control. Woke up pretty late for a weekend, around 9am, to a soaked diaper and a dry bed foreshadowing. After a change, I spent the next 9 hours outside doing some errands but mostly some projects outside since spring has fully started here, getting everything here cleaned up from winter and ready for summer, cleaning out the pool, that kind of thing. Lots of strenuous work in the sun. Drank what felt like 10 gallons of water. Finally went inside around 8pm to find some food and to do some work work. Before I sat down I gave my diaper a good wet check, which is now required because I literally can no longer tell when I'm wetting and have no idea when I've wet and really can't tell how wet I am, again, foreshadowing. Sat down with some food to watch youtube around 9pm, again, diaper was wet but not remotely at capacity (I exclusively wear MegaMaxes). Around 11pm I get up to head to bed, and, as soon as I stand up I realize that me and the couch are completely soaked. I literally had no idea. *sigh* I'm going to need to buy a steam cleaner or something. Head off to take a shower before bed and nothing special there aside from a super wet diaper. After getting out of the shower I grab a towel and dry off and take my before-bed supplements. as I finish that I hear a drip-drip and look down and there's a flood on the floor. I was literally out of the shower for less than a minute. Whatever, at least that's a tile floor so I mop that up with some toilet paper while sticking my finger in the end of the catheter until I can grab another diaper. Wake up around 4AM to another completely soaked diaper which is leaking all over the bed. *sigh* Change myself and throw a pad over the puddle in the bed (fortunately I use a waterproof cover on my mattress) and go back to sleep. I'll deal with that in the morning. Wake up around 7AM and start work from home, eventually find a gap in the meetings after a couple of hours to change my sheets and while doing that realize that the waterproof cover is looking quite dingy, so order another one for delivery today from Amazon. Strip the old one off the bed and throw it away and toss the sheets in the washer. Shower around noon and remember to bring my plug with me so I don't drip all over the damn floor this time. I have to say, I'm not at all unhappy with the situation or what I'm doing but it's entirely optional and voluntary and something I could end at any time. I feel genuinely bad for anyone who is involuntarily incontinent. This experience has definitely ended for me any desire to have any kind of surgery or other procedure to have any kind of permanent incontinence.

I've done several self-supported hikes in my life and a few others which were supported by porters but otherwise into environments where either me personally, someone else, or an animal, were carrying everything I would need for a period of up to a month. Would literally be impossible in diapers unless I wanted to take several extra porters or animals with me to pack in dry diapers and pack out my garbage. It's not even a theoretical concern for me. I did one of these last year (Lukla to Everest Base Camp) and will do another this summer in Mongolia and possibly another trip to Afghanistan if the security situation holds and we can still arrange visas. I'm trying to work out logistics next year to hike the Darien gap. I'm not saying nobody should do this, or that there aren't ways to do 99% of things, but for the people who are considering making this a 100% permanent irreversible part of their life, there are limits it will impose.

This is good to know. Much better than my idea of exposing myself at an ER :| Not a bad idea either but I bought a box of like 1000 little packets of the gel, lol. After being cath'd completely and uninterrupted for the past week, I realized something interesting when I, again, woke up to a soaked bed at like 3am. Normally when this happens my response would be to take the diaper off and throw a pad on the bed and deal with it in the morning, probably going back to sleep without any diaper on and the frustration of that experience would probably lead me to take a few days off wearing diapers. This time, that wasn't an option. I either had to take the time to remove the catheter or simply change my diaper. Realizing that the easiest path forward and the quickest path back to sleep was to change that's what I did. I wasn't even fully thinking about it in my barely awake slumber. It was just out of one diaper and into another dry, not for long, one. I got out of the shower the other day and there was a fucking puddle on the floor, quite a large one, in the minute or so it took to dry off. I have to say this experience has made me feel bad for people who are actually medically incontinent. I can go back at any time. 11/10 experience though, will do this again.

I've definitely thought about it quite a bit, but, remain firmly on the side of never wanting to do it , with no disrespect to the people who want this or have already done it. Personally while I love wearing and have, over the past month, have found a newfound love of forced incontinence with caterers the idea of being 100% dependent forever is impossible to me. There are things in this world I want to do and places I want to go and see which are either more difficult or just impossibly difficult with diapers. I would absolutely love some intermediate solution, something which left me controllably or intermittently incontinent. A remotely controllable memokath stent would be awesome

So, I've been continuing on with this but have been a bit too busy to post much. 18 fr seems to be a very comfortable size for me. I can go up to a 20 fr in some brands, but for some other brands, 18/20 fr are too uncomfortable passing through the bladder neck. The Bard foleys seem to be "ribbed" and most definitely not for your pleasure. I have no idea why they did that but I could not pass the 16 fr Bard while the 20 fr amsure brand was passable but not as comfortable as the 18 fr. I've been wearing a catheter much more consistently for the past month or so. I realized a few days ago why I was having trouble with leaving them in for a long time. When I have the catheter in for more than a day or so the outside starts to dry out and it can't slide back in at all and pulls uncomfortably at my glans. Re-applying a tiny bit of the insertion gel or some 5% lidocaine gel every day or so seems to make things move again and removes the irritation. I did a same-day turn cross-country yesterday for work, I was always planning on wearing diapers but had planned on removing my catheter just before leaving in the morning. At the last moment I decided to leave the catheter in. I didn't take a syringe with me either, so, no possibility of removal unless I had a serious issue in which case I would have had to find an urgent care or an ER and explain that I needed one? I'm not sure what would have happened. Had plenty of diapers with me (4 megamax for 23 hours lol -- only used two, one after landing and one before taking off) and ultimately had no issues over the whole trip. Still have the same catheter in about 24 hours later. Strange days.

Not exactly, but, because of general discomfort as well as some specific situations where having the foley in won't work, I've not worn one much longer than say 36 hours. Nope. Had a "fun" experience last night. Drank a lot more water than usual before bed last night and went to bed a bit earlier than normal. Woke up around 4AM to a totally saturated diaper and a very wet bed. Had to strip the bed, clean everything up and change my diaper before I could go back to sleep. I've tried for years to simulate bedwetting in some way. This was really fantastic.

So, going to get a bit specific here. I've been using a cath almost every night for the past few weeks. Stepped up to a 16fr and it's quite comfortable. One major issue which I've had issues overcoming though. Every morning I'm being woken up a few hours before I would normally wake up with an erection (very normal for me) but the diaper constrains things and causes the catheter to irritate the head of my penis. I've been forced to removed the catheter in order to get comfortable again and get back to sleep. Curious if anyone had any issue like that and had any way of dealing with it.

Fixmox is a brand, their various products are, by formula, the exact same product as for humans, made in the same factories, just not sold or marketed to humans or for human consumption or controlled by the FDA. The only real concern is to make sure you're buying appropriate antibiotics for a UTI (Cephalexin/Ciprofloxacin/Amoxicillin) and that you're dosing it correctly. There's obviously some higher level of risk involved with some less controls over the distribution/etc of the product, but, we're all here shoving tubes up our dicks for pleasure, so, I think we're adult enough to understand some of the risk.

Definitely a concern of mine as well. I was super clean, washed things off, wore gloves, hydrate a lot, drink cranberry juice or take some cranberry supplements (what I did), have some antibiotics on hand (https://fishmoxfishflex.com/)

So strange. Just inserted one of the 14fr intermittent caths to see what it would feel like, if it was too large/difficult to insert, etc. It was actually LESS painful and LESS difficult to insert than the smaller catheters. More investigation required.

I'm at 12fr and *that* was not the most comfortable thing in the world to put in! 30fr is 2.5x larger! ChatGPT told me that catheter size doesn't correlate to penis size, but, I think it was just trying to make me feel better! 30fr sounds intimidating. I was ultimately able to comfortably tolerate the 12fr catheter without any serious issues for the past four-ish days. The whole thing was comfortable enough that I basically did my full daily routines without any issues. This was lots of work, meetings and stuff (all virtual the last few days), but also some out-of-the-house stuff like shopping and went to see a movie (The Last Breath -- recommend it!). On Saturday afternoon I was hydrating significantly and after I finished working I stood up from my desk, I realized I was soaked and leaking so much that there was a literal puddle on the floor. I had literally no idea it was happening. Really intoxicating experience. I got unexpectedly pulled into a call the other day while changing my diaper and had to stop. Before I thought about it, the catheter was leaking and I had a stream of pee running onto the floor and a (much smaller) puddle. I had no issues with the bladder trying to expel the catheter like others were talking about. Both of the kinds of foley caths I tried were very comfortable but the Bard all-silicone one was a bit softer and I think more comfortable. I had some in-person meetings today and did not want the distraction so I'm currently catheter-free. I was also a bit worried that I might have lost some control after being cath'd for four days, but, nope. I'm still in a diaper of course, but, totally in control. Did not have any of this on my 2025 bingo card.

I've been taking daily cranberry supplements for a week or so now. Being very careful with cleanliness with insertion as well. I have some antibiotics on hand in case as well. Yeah, the thing is, I was petrified of inflating the balloon and having it be in the urethra and not the bladder, or, being unable to deflate it to remove the catheter! Intermittent caths seemed like they would avoid both issues, and it did, but the downsides were crazy lol. Inflation was a total non-issue, just pushed the plunger in very very slowly and had no pain or discomfort doing it. Removal, we shall see, but I'm a lot less worried at this point, and, this is so comfortable that I don't think it's an issue I'm going to have to deal with for a while!

While intently ignoring the title of this post, I'd like to complain that nobody pointed out foley catheters. This is far more comfortable than any of the intermittent caterers I tried. For reference, I'm using a Bard Silicone 2-Way Foley Catheter 5 cc, went in super easy and inflating the balloon was completely comfortable as well.

By taping the end of the catheter to the tip of my penis I was able to prevent the catheter from migrating and since things weren't moving at all, it actually made it significantly more comfortable! Was able to sleep most of the night with the catheter in! Did not have to wake up to pee!

Holey foley scares me a bit. Too worried about the catheter splitting in half from being weakened and breaking off inside me. Having to go to the ER to have half a catheter removed from my dick because I stuck it up there for a fetish is a worst case scenario. Yes, I'm sure the people in the ER have seen worse, doesn't mean I want to do it. Took a bit of a break from this in general. I was never able to find any comfortable method of wearing for more than 3-4 hours before it started to fall out and the tip of my penis also would become very irritated and painful.

Had these delivered yesterday morning and already used a few. Starting to wonder if I shouldn't have gotten foley/indwelling caths instead of intermittent ones. I was very fearful of the idea of having to inflate the balloon inside me and what might go wrong if I inflated the balloon while it was still in the urethra or if it somehow got pulled out with the balloon was inflated. Terrified me. The intermittent caths seem to have two downsides, firstly I think they are made of more rigid material than foley caths. It seems to irritate the tip of my penis but I think long term I will get used to this without much issue. Secondly, and perhaps more importantly, they fall out. Without the balloon holding things out the catheter just falls out. It's a bit annoying. The various different models of catheters also all definitely have different levels of comfort here. First one I tried was the LoFric Orgio 10fr, that was reasonably comfortable and I managed to leave it in for about 3 hours before I had to leave home so I removed it. Last night just before bedtime I inserted one of the SpeediCath, in a smaller size (the 8fr one), and while the insertion was extremely comfortable the actual tip of it is a much harder plastic/rubber and it was extremely uncomfortable. In addition, I think the fact that it was a smaller size meant that it moved. A lot. It was eventually too uncomfortable and distracting and so I removed it and went to sleep. Inserted one of the Magic3 caths (12fr!) this morning. Very large. Kind of intimidating. Was quite a bit more difficult to insert than either of the first two (especially the 8fr SpeediCath) but it only took a few minutes. Much more comfortable profile, unlike the other two this is just a silicone tube with a flared silicone base and no hard plastic on the end. I've had it in for the past 4ish hours during meetings and its been quite comfortable. After a few hours the tip is starting to irritate a small bit, but, not uncomfortable. It doesn't seem to fall out nearly as much, perhaps because it's much larger than the 8fr one. Very interesting experience so far, definitely glad I tried this but not sure how much I will use this long term. Part of why I like wearing diapers is because I enjoy actually peeing them. The catheter completely removes any feeling of peeing. You just end up with a wet diaper. I've been doing this for long enough that I don't have any huge hangups about wetting in any situation where I'm wearing a diaper so it doesn't add anything in that regard. If I can find a method of actually sleeping with one of these in and I can wet in my sleep without waking up, that would be great. I've been meticulous when inserting to avoid infection. I wash my hands, I wash my groin area, wash my hands, clean off the head of the penis, wear latex gloves before inserting. I don't want to get a UTI. I ordered and have been taking daily cranberry supplements. I ordered, and have in stock, some antibiotics in the event that both of these are unsuccessful. Overall, interesting experience, will continue to try with it. Will probably add-in some foley caths next.

Fucked around, I guess I'm gonna find out. Been wearing 24/7 for the past few weeks and it sucks to wake up at night to pee.

Where do you buy them from? Can't buy on amazon, "Available with an Amazon Business account and healthcare license."

I think you know how much I support you from earlier in this thread, so, don't take this the wrong way at all but that comment just absolutely blows my mind.

Congratulations @Reddy, I'm so happy for you (and more than a bit jealous)! I hope it's everything you dreamed of and you don't experience any of the negative complications Safe travels home and I hope you keep updating us, I've enjoyed living vicariously though you. For me it will remain strictly a fantasy. While I love the idea of it, 90% of the time, I enjoy traveling to remote places and needing to drag a case of diapers with me would preclude lots of trips I have planned for the future. I have plans this fall to do an everest base camp trek and I'd need an extra two porters to carry cases of diapers with me

Glad you're back and everything went well. Thank you for posting an update to let us know you're ok now get off DD and get some rest Welcome to the rest of your diapered, incontinent life!