Having seen the other thread regarding these issues I wanted to ask others experiences of this. My husband is not incontinent. We had a short phase of urinary incontinence when he had been catheterised, none too gently I think, whilst in hosptal under anaesthetic, which lasted a couple of weeks but we resolved this once at home.
He did have an accident ( urine) at Day Care when the carer did not realise that when he is taken to the toilet he needs to be prompted through every stage i.e pull down trousers, pull down pants, sit on loo, OK now you can use toilet etc. He cannot wipe himself although he does sometimes find the loo roll but it just ends up used and on the floor. He does not mind at all being helped. Carer took him in and whilst still standing up with trousers and pants up she asked him if he was OK. He said "can I go now?" She said yes and so he did wetting pants and trousers. This was some months back and has not been repeated. However, sometimes when he needs to go in the night or is worrying about something during the day we do have the up down hokey cokey thing with the trousers but I can still make a joke of it and get him back on track. Is this the beginning of incontinence? Does it start with daytime accidents or night time or is it varable? Does urinary incontinence come first? Or is it different for everyone. He has no problem realising when he heeds the loo but sometimes he starts to fidget rather than get the words out but will say yes if asked if he needs to go. I am hoping this may be a problem a long way down the line but when the other poster mentioned the hokey cokey trousers it made me wonder, so I thought it best to start a new thread rather than hijack the other one
Tre
He did have an accident ( urine) at Day Care when the carer did not realise that when he is taken to the toilet he needs to be prompted through every stage i.e pull down trousers, pull down pants, sit on loo, OK now you can use toilet etc. He cannot wipe himself although he does sometimes find the loo roll but it just ends up used and on the floor. He does not mind at all being helped. Carer took him in and whilst still standing up with trousers and pants up she asked him if he was OK. He said "can I go now?" She said yes and so he did wetting pants and trousers. This was some months back and has not been repeated. However, sometimes when he needs to go in the night or is worrying about something during the day we do have the up down hokey cokey thing with the trousers but I can still make a joke of it and get him back on track. Is this the beginning of incontinence? Does it start with daytime accidents or night time or is it varable? Does urinary incontinence come first? Or is it different for everyone. He has no problem realising when he heeds the loo but sometimes he starts to fidget rather than get the words out but will say yes if asked if he needs to go. I am hoping this may be a problem a long way down the line but when the other poster mentioned the hokey cokey trousers it made me wonder, so I thought it best to start a new thread rather than hijack the other one
Tre