lostforgottensoul
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Soooo, yeah, lets talk pee. I have no idea where this goes on the forum. I suspect maybe anxiety but unsure really.
It has gotten to be a literal nightmare to pee. Yep, to pee. I do take high milligrams of gabapenten (1200mg 3 times a day for nerve pain) and one of the side effects of that is difficulty peeing. So it has always been hard to release my bladder but lately (have not increased the gabapentin in years and cannot decrease it) it has taken an act of god, a long time in the bathroom (to a point that I have been late coming back from a 15 min break at work), some imagry of a waterfall or water falling and "shhhh" sounds (something I've always done to help) and a long time to pee. And then what's worse is it comes so slowly when it does release and so sparatic and I have some nerve damage and loss of feeling in my urthrea due to forced cathiters during my trauma that I think I am done when I'm not (can't feel myself peeing anymore and it's so slow I can't hear it) that I get up (though I do purposely wait quite a while for this reason) and end up peeing all down my leg....at work! :wtf::bag:
I suspect that maybe highened anxiety is causing my muscles to tense and not allow my bladder to release. More then usual anyway. There really isn't anything doctors can do about the nerve damage and gabapentin side effects. And I have damaged nerves in my back that travel down the outside of my thighs (femoral neuropathy which is why I'm on the gabapentin) that has gotten worse in the last few months but I don't know if that may also cause more nerve loss down there? But it has gotten to a point where I've said outloud "OH MY GOD, JUST f*ckING PEE!" in the public bathroom at work. At my other job I could trickle the water (then others that come in would often turn it off) but these here at my current job the sinks are all on motion sensors and I have not found anything to put in front of the sensor and not sure that would work anyway.
I thought it was a long shot but can anyone relate to this? Or have any advise about it? What about how to relax those muscles? Any tips or tricks to that? Tried Kegals and that does nothing. Not sure what else I could do but thought I'd ask. I just want to pee :arghh; (in a timely manner and not pee all down my legs)!
It has gotten to be a literal nightmare to pee. Yep, to pee. I do take high milligrams of gabapenten (1200mg 3 times a day for nerve pain) and one of the side effects of that is difficulty peeing. So it has always been hard to release my bladder but lately (have not increased the gabapentin in years and cannot decrease it) it has taken an act of god, a long time in the bathroom (to a point that I have been late coming back from a 15 min break at work), some imagry of a waterfall or water falling and "shhhh" sounds (something I've always done to help) and a long time to pee. And then what's worse is it comes so slowly when it does release and so sparatic and I have some nerve damage and loss of feeling in my urthrea due to forced cathiters during my trauma that I think I am done when I'm not (can't feel myself peeing anymore and it's so slow I can't hear it) that I get up (though I do purposely wait quite a while for this reason) and end up peeing all down my leg....at work! :wtf::bag:
I suspect that maybe highened anxiety is causing my muscles to tense and not allow my bladder to release. More then usual anyway. There really isn't anything doctors can do about the nerve damage and gabapentin side effects. And I have damaged nerves in my back that travel down the outside of my thighs (femoral neuropathy which is why I'm on the gabapentin) that has gotten worse in the last few months but I don't know if that may also cause more nerve loss down there? But it has gotten to a point where I've said outloud "OH MY GOD, JUST f*ckING PEE!" in the public bathroom at work. At my other job I could trickle the water (then others that come in would often turn it off) but these here at my current job the sinks are all on motion sensors and I have not found anything to put in front of the sensor and not sure that would work anyway.
I thought it was a long shot but can anyone relate to this? Or have any advise about it? What about how to relax those muscles? Any tips or tricks to that? Tried Kegals and that does nothing. Not sure what else I could do but thought I'd ask. I just want to pee :arghh; (in a timely manner and not pee all down my legs)!