Sounds like a new exercise program…or maybe a high-tech company name?…Oh NO….look closer…Uro…nope, not the currency in Europe…uro as in Urologist!:party: Taking my cue from a fellow blogger (‘cause I can’t just write this out, it will sound too horrific)…Sing it with me, to the tune of “Jingle Bells”…

Went to the Urologist

Wires out the gazoo:ohmy:

Catheter up the front

And up the rear-end too!:eek:

They fill up your big bladder

You feel like you’re gonna blow:crying:

They ask you to cough, and then they say “Tell me when you’ve got to go.” :wub:

Gotta go, gotta go, gotta go right NOW!

Im’ gonna pee on your floor and then you’ll need a towel! Oww! :glare:

Gotta go, gotta go, gotta go right NOW!

Im’ gonna pee on your floor and then you’ll need a towel!:car:

Yeah… “Oh what fun” (not) I had this morning…Three years ago, after putting up with stress incontinence for years (three kids did me in) I had surgery (only one I’ve ever had) with both a bladder sling and a hysterectomy in hopes of correcting this issue. Although initial results were good, it slowly failed and over the next year I was back to where I started.:confused: Well, it’s taken me awhile to go back to my Dr., but in this year of “getting me healthier” I decided to see what they could do. I met with my Urologist last month…if you remember my “I peed my pants” blog…he said “You’re the first patient I’ve had where this failed…you’ll have to leave by the back door so you don’t scare my other patient!” Ha-ha:laugh:…I would have laughed, but then I might PEE MYSELF!:huh2: Now don’t I feel special! So today I started the testing process again…not much embarrasses me (I know, obviously) but “Urodynamics” testing is a treat…I think you’ve got the picture from my song, but picture standing on a towel and holding a million tubes and wires (coming from all points nether-regions) throughout the testing…cough…bear down:blush:…’nuff said. Next week I get to go through the “scoping” process again…yay me…photos! I’ve had some other issues over the past few years with other failed treatments and I know that’s got me more nervous about the LB process…I’m feeling a little jinxed…like if something can go wrong or fail, it’s going to happen to me!:wub: But I’m an eternal optimist (as Mr.SA says) and my cup is always half-full (or in the case of this morning 1.7 liters…yes, they measure...eeeww)…so here’s to the LB! Bring it on the testing!:thumbup:

LOL - not about your ordeal, but your attitude. I got a good chuckle reading your post.

I am going thru "almost" the same ordeal, but it turns out its my uterus making me pee my pants. lol. So I'm having a hysterectomy to remove it. I have adenomyosis which is causing me - not so much fun.

Well, I love your attitude and hang in there. I've been banded for "almost" 2 years and I absolutely would not trade it for anything, I love love love my silicone buddy.

Hey Sunshine2...just wanted to say my (vaginally done) hysterectomy (& sling) wasn't that bad or painful after (after childbirth nothing is painful)...took my pills like clockwork and was tired but fine. So I hope yours goes as well. Sounds like the LB is going to be harder with all the incisions!

Band Groupie.....I enjoy all of your blogs. I'm new to the site and am looking at a spring 09 LB surgery.

I too had the TV sling....or as my friends called it, my SWING. It didn't work :thumbup: either and I am hoping that my LB doc's stat of "82% of patients report an improvement in urinary incontinence."

We shall see.

Hey Margie...hadn't heard that-82%...wow! I asked my Urologist if this could be part of the cause of my "fail" and he said "no way...they sometimes see that with extremely obese people, but that wouldn't effect me". I "only" have max 100# to lose...Good to hear the LB may help this also!

Haha.. This reminds me when I was going through something similar a few years back... So they fill me up with water (they just keep adding more til you feel like you are going to explode!) and then they tell me to go sit on the portable toilet like contraption in the corner of the room to and pee it out. There's a machine in the under the seat that measures the pressure/velocity or something etc when you pee... They also measure how much goes in and then measure how much comes out to see if you are able to fully empty your bladder...

The Dr said "I'll step out side while you go and then I'll come back in a read the data.... Haha.... as I am going, I notice a puddle forming on the floor and there's no way I can stop once I start.... The Doc comes in and doesn't even notice the puddle yet (The floor is slightly unlevel and it's now all puddled up agains the other wall).. He goes to the machine and looks under it and looks perplexed.. Then he looks at the floor... Then he grumbles under his breath and calls the nurse in and tells her to bring those blue liners like puppy training floor pads.... Turns out he forgot to put the catch basin underneath.... Great.... We have to do the whole thing all over again... This time I ask him about the catch basin before he leaves the room....

Turns out I have IntersistialCictitus or some such thing... They gave me pills but After about a year, I quite taking them... I was feeling like an old lady with Those pee pills and diet pills and iron Pills and high cholesterol pills and sleep pills and anti depression pills.... One day I woke up and looked at my little daily pill thingy that had each days AM and PM pills in little compartments and I said "Thats it... I'm done with all of you!" And It's been 3 or 4 years since I've taken them..

Sigh...I'm taking a 'bander meal' in pills every day still (and I had to do the port-a-potty too...she had to run the faucet before I could pee LOL). -BG