KevinS

I've only been relying on condom caths and diapers for a little over a year to deal with my urge incontinence. Recently I felt a bit emotionally sick and tired of having to wear this stuff and being incontinent so I tried going cold turkey. The results of my Saturday attempt were a disaster in terms of wet pants, chairs, sofa, and floor but somewhat emotionally therapeutic. I realized I could not go back to frequent bathroom visits to deal with the problem and even if that did work why should I incur the inconvenience of doing so. It brought back memories of my before protection days and how awful it was to have to rush to the bathroom ten times a day yet still wet my pullup sometimes. So while I still feel a little bit down about now being completely dependent on this stuff spending the day (at least till the evening) did help me realize again that it was a good decision to give up on toileting a year ago and rely on external protection instead.

As a male, you will have a hard time getting any medical professional to recommend or prescribe diapers for 24/7 use. If they follow what they did for me they will give you a cystometrogram. It is a bladder capacity test. Like you I also went to the bathroom frequently for years and eventually really had to wear Depends underwear to prevent public accidents. For the first year it wasn't a big deal to me or my wife since I only needed one to get through the day but I did become more dependent on them. My wife did make me see a urologist when I started to have to carry around a spare. Since my bladder capacity was only 200ml they didn't think relaxation drugs would do much good. The recommendation I got was bladder augmentation surgery or external collection. By external collection they meant a combination of condom cath leg bag and diapers. I declined surgery, so the nurse set me up with condom cath collection during the day and diapers at night. That was 2 years ago and I have gotten used to it. I'm not really an ABDL so 24/7 diapers aren't a turn on for me so I didn't really fight the condom cath solution. The prescription does allow me 2.2 diapers a day since they are okay with me using them occasionally during the day when caths won't work like in shorts or as a backup to cath blowout. It does sound like you do have real urges and do go to the bathroom more than 6 times a day so you probably won't do to great on the cystometrogram. But it still is not so bad that you really have to wear protection. So most likely they will prescribe you drugs, bladder training, and/or 1 pullup type diaper a day. I doubt they will recommend full external collection until you get to the point of needing more than one pullup diaper a day. But if you ignore the bladder training and let yourself rely on the pullup more that will occur naturally in a year or two.