Justmeinnh

Dandelion tea, I've heard.

I have loads of accidents, but all urinary. My pants get wet once or twice a week usually. Were you looking for only bowel accidents OP?

Wow old thread! But I am in Southern NH too. Unsure if I want to meet with anyone, but good to know folks are here.

It is definitely clear as I keep myself pretty hydrated, often with cranberry juice. I will have to research amoxicillin for UTIs before making a medication choice like that.

They are your typical cheap hospital diaper. Not bad for short times. I have a bunch from thrift stores. Actually got like a years supply once from MARDENS, my fave store in the world!

Those Quattros are what I use overnight if I need to be stealthy- camping, etc. They hold a TON. and the tapes stick well and don't come loose. Kind of procey but great. This remnds me, next paycheck I need to order some more for summer activities.

Because just resells different existing products under their name. You won't see anything new. I did a side by side comparison last year with some of their products, and they were identical.

I thought of this last night- tape on diapers are embarrassing when you put them on and take them off, but for the rest of the time, in bed, and you are dry, and comfortable and well rested..... that tradeoff is totally worth it for me.

I didn't want this buried in one of the stent threads but if a moderator thinks that is the best place, that's okay. In my stent use, the one thing that has made me remove them is what I think might be a UTI that occurs. The thing is, it seems to come and go. The only indication is a bad burning plastic smell of the urine. No pain, no fever, no aches etc, just urine that smells intolerably bad. I take the stent out because I can't stand the smell anymore. I will insert, things will be fine for a few days, then there will be a few days of mildly bad smell, then it goes away for a week or so, then the bad smell comes back, then goes away, etc. Eventually I will get to a point where the smell is really bad and I remove it. The urine will continue to smell bad for a day or two then get back to normal. I don't even know if this is a UTI, or the result of my stent materials or what. Has anyone else had this happen? I am pretty careful with sterility and insertion, many hours in the alcohol bath, penis tip thoroughly cleaned, etc. I'm just confused why it would come and go.

Here is mine. It is manufactured in two parts- the red tip, or cap, is part one, and gets reused. The second part is everything else. Part 1: Is a normal screw cap, that is cut short and modified using a heat gun to become narrower because I have a narrow-ish urethral tip and can't fit a cap in there otherwise. I cut it to about 1CM in length, mount it on a small allen wrench, and use a heat gun and wet fingers to gently mold it into a narrower profile, and to round off the cut edges so they are smooth. I heat up a mini screwdriver (metal end) with the heat gun, and when it is hot, I take the cap off the allen wrench, hold it between my fingers, and push the screwdriver through the cap to make the hole at the tip. I make sure everything is smooth and there are no irritating plastic burrs that would harm the urethra. This cap can be re-used many times on future stents. Part 2: Ingredients: 12fr intermittent catheter, Q-tip with hollow plastic middle, fishing line, and 3 o-rings. Large, Med, and small I guess. Tools: leather punch, crochet hook, needle, knife. Cut the cath to size- mine is around 4.5 inches or so, but everyone is different, and teeny tiny variations can make the difference between un-noticable and painful. Locate the lower hole in the cath (closest to the cut end), and use the leather punch to create a hole opposite the stock hole. (leather punch will go through both holes). Thread the crochet hook through the holes, and hook the medium o-ring onto the hook. Use you ingenuity to pull on the o-ring so it is securely on the hook, stretch the cath so the holes are a bit stretched out, and pull the crochet hook back through the holes, which should leave the o-ring threaded through the holes in the cath. It will look a little like boyhood's design. Then take the q-tip and cut the middle part to length, maybe 3/4 of an inch. Push this tube into the stock top hole of the cath toward the o-ring. Now use your ingenuity to pull apart the wings of the o-ring to stretch it way out, which will also stretch the cath a bit, and push the tube down through between the o-ring sections. Make sure you push it down enough so the tube is clear of the top cath hole so urine can get through. The o-ring traps the plastic tube in place within the cath, so it does not move easily. I've never had one budge. You can leave the o-ring with the wings out to either side, or you can do what I do which is pull one side until the other is tight against the cath and tube. I think insertion/extraction is more comfortable this way, and 've never had one come out accidentally since I got the length right. Then take a meter or so of retrieval line, fishing or whatever, and thread it through the needle, with an inch out one side of the needle and the rest on the other side. Poke the needle through the cut end of the cath, from the inside out, then back through the cath to outside in. I actually do this twice to minimize the risk of pulling the line too hard and ripping it free of the very soft cath. I also make sure to not go across the cath, where the insertion device might poke it and break the line, but I make sure that the line is kind of around the sides of the inside of the cath. Then pull it through so you have plenty of scope. Thread the cap onto the line, down to the cath. Thread the tiny optional o-ring onto the line so both lines are inside the tiny o-ring, then thread one of the lines through the large o-ring. Tie the threads together so the large o-ring is secured. Drop the whole thing into the sterilizing solution of your choice and insert as you would any stent. The thing I like about this one, is when it is inserted, you put the large o-ring around the head of your penis. This keeps you from accidentally tugging it out, and also makes it feel more organic, with nothing dangling around and slapping around. I adjust my line so that the o-ring can remain on the penis even when fully erect (with very little excess). This acts as an outside anchor which resists inward migration when erect, which is the time mine might migrate in. It also is almost invisible, as the o-ring is usually hidden by loose penis skin, and all you might glimpse is nearly invisible line coming from the urethra and circling closely back, and maybe the tiny optional o-ring. I just have the tiny one on there so if it migrates in the middle of the night, I don't have to turn on the light, take the diaper off, and find the retrieval lines with my fingers- now I just can grab the tiny o-ring with eyes closed. The bend just comes naturally after being in my body for weeks on end.

Here is mine. it is a soft 12fr catheter, cut to length, with a silicone o-ring bladder anchor and silicone o-ring outside anchor that goes around the penis head. There is a tiny o-ring that I use to make it easier to gently pull on the fishing line if the stent migrates into the bladder. (pretty rare but happens a couple times a week). This one spent almost a month inserted, hence the discoloration. I find that the softest possible cath makes the biggest difference in comfort.

I will post mine in a bit, gotten pretty good with building them. The one I have in now has been in just a bit over 3 weeks. Love every second. Very occasionally when I am asleep it will migrate in, but a gentle tug pulls it back into duty position. Going to try to make this one go 4 weeks, then pull it out and check on it. The current longest I've had one in was 3 weeks, and it came out a little encrusted but in otherwise good shape. I'd like to reliably go 6 weeks before changing them out.

Yikes, I hope you got strength and honesty and fearlessness from this, and not long term shame.

I only uncontrollably wet when stented, but the North Shore Supreme Lite plastic works pretty well. If I am sleeping in, and need another few hours of absorbency, the regular Supreme is needed, otherwise it all creeps out the back.

I finally found a design that works pretty well for me, longest I had it in was 3 weeks, and only took it out for a family camping trip. it is a 12fr intermittent cath, very soft design, cut to 5 inches or so. i use a belt punch to create a second hole adjacent to the lower cath hole, thread a silicone ring through it using a crochet hook, and clip about 30 mm of hollow q-tip, push it in between the ring so it locks it in place. the tip is a screw cover, modified with a heat gun so it is narrower and shorter. The key is eliminating rough parts and ensuring smoothness. 8 lb fishing line sewed into the tip of the cath, and the screw cover tip slid over that and fitted onto the end of the cath. A larger silicone ring at the distal end of the fishing line that fits around the penis, and that’s it. Very comfortable, and completely incontinent and diaper dependent. Can ejaculate with it in place with no worries. Have used this design for almost a year on and off.