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How about a Google Doc? Anyone with a link can view, and maybe suggest changes. Use an alternate Gmail account if you don't want to show your main one. That's what I'd do.

Hmm, I suppose I could try parsing out some useful information to share with others. I've also been thinking of making a video series showing how to make a stent in detail and showing how to solve the common problems like folding a piece of silicone in on itself (seems to be the hardest part). That'll take some time though and I need to find a new video editor to insert some text in the video. I'll keep this in mind.

I'd say this thread has a lot of useful information, if you know how to parse it. FetLife, from my experience, has a few gems in the groups, but nothing like this, especially for temporary incontinence and stents. You'll just have to read through 66 pages of this to find the golden bits.

Same. I wasn't put under. Just some nice injections and a nerve wracking hour later I had my wisdom teeth out, lol. I think this just depends on the doctor. I live in America and I wasn't put under for my wisdom teeth pulling.

My next question is: why do you need to be catheterized? If it was a series of injections, I imagine it would be an outpatient procedure and you'd go home the same day. Did your surgeon make bladder neck and sphincter incisions?

My understanding is that botox doesn't really work and would cause urine retention (perhaps that was botox in the bladder muscle itself and not in the bladder neck or external sphincter). I'm interested to hear how this goes for you, perhaps you can shatter the understanding I've gathered over time.

I agree that if @cathdiap wishes to cease giving advice in the manufacture and usage of stents, that's his prerogative and his right to do so. But I object to the notion that "people taking extreme risks is unacceptable". Last I checked, if it can be done by someone in the human race, it will be done. Murphy's law and all that. You chose to partake in this extreme, unacceptable, risk, yet you report further on your findings. If these risks are unacceptable, why are you doing it? It's because we have free agency to choose to take these risks. I'm all for putting in bold print "there are extreme risks involved in doing this", but claiming that it is unacceptable? By whom? Those that see it as unacceptable will not partake. For those of us who are willing to take those risks, I say, go for it, but be warned. Let's not forget that for many, desiring to be incontinent is simply unacceptable, yet here we are.

I disagree with deleting this topic. People are allowed to take their own risks. One (or a few) person's failure to do due diligence does not rest on your shoulders. Keeping topics like this alive, as well as the horror stories that come with it, serves as not only education for those that are for this topic, but also for those that are against. Censorship is unbecoming of a free society. You might as well have the entire Incontinent-Desires subforum deleted if this is the case. This isn't on you @cathdiap. Feel free to stop posting about making stents, but I hope @DailyDi does not delete this topic. A new topic, or discussion on another thread, is going to happen regardless if that happens. If people care to read this thread in its (partial) entirety, there are many mentions of cautions to this practice, as well as cautionary tales. People are going to do what they do and there's nothing you can do about it other than to warn others that follow in our paths. Again, what happened to me, @Loveable_guy, @NappiSam, and others is our own, consensual, choice, and not a reflection on you personally.

I won't lie, I've started thinking about it...

Why is it taking so long? For my first ER stay, I only waited 10 hours. My second time, they sent me home and my procedure was scheduled a week out. Maybe your stent is situated in a way that they deem emergent enough to warrant a hospital stay in case you can't urinate, but taking their time to fit you in? Do you have an ETA at least?

Like @Elfy and @Little BabyDoll Christine have mentioned, you're in for a rough ride. Even if you managed to convince a doctor and your insurance company to prescribe and provide you diapers, you'll be wholly disappointed. You have to fight like hell to get even half way decent diapers. It's just not worth the time, the effort, and the money you'll be paying out the nose for tests and a false diagnosis. And if they find out you lied to get them, expect a long stay at a comfortable resort usually filled with guards, criminals, humiliation, shitty food, recorded phone calls, expensive commissary, and concrete walls with no sunshine. (This is called insurance fraud. In the US, prison sentences are long for insurance fraud.) Good luck, but don't be surprised when you hit 100 obstacles for what would amount to be paper towels or bunking with Bubba.

I've at least been making progress in the process. These days I make sure I'm adequately diapered for bed and when I need to void in the middle of the night, I can usually groggily wake up, go (without adjusting much, if at all), and go back to sleep. I still leak in bed but I'm getting to the point where it's bothering me less, but even after all that, not much progress in sleeping while wetting. Thanks Enthusi, I'll continue to stay the course! ✊

That's what ironic in my mind. I reliably sleep wet clear up until I was 12 years old, but perhaps the shame of having to deal with it all those years clenched me up permanently! I can't be sure. I have wet in my sleep a handful of times since then, and even while untraining, but alcohol is usually involved when it does happen.

Unfortunately, I know the ER experience twice over. I never had it lodged just before my meatus, but pulled a dumb and decided to try stents without a proper retrieval line. Needless to say, I'll never make that mistake again. The pain of a lost stent does not compare to the embarrassment. It's far more humiliating to have to explain yourself over and over again and then just counting down the minutes where you can go back home and hopefully never see those fine folks ever again. At least here in the US, it is illegal for doctors to give back from what they remove from inside your body, so that depends on where you are at in the world. I only know this because I asked 😆

I put holes in my top arm anyway, as it can't hurt. I don't feel any extra irritation and not having the holes allows for the possibility of the bladder to stop the top arm's drainage. I noticed in one of your photosets that you put a hole in the bottom part of the top arm that touches the bladder. That might be where you're feeling irritation. I put a hold about 2-3 mm in diameter in the top and sides of the top arm, just after the inner silicone tubing and I don't have any issues.