I Can't Stop Weeing!

I’ve had a catheter fitted twice By Hayley Green, 29, from Yeovil  Determined I just have to live with it.

- Cher Heasmer

A sleep in bed, a familiar feeling woke me.

Not again, I thought, pulling myself up.

I’d got up to have a wee five times already.

And now I needed to go again.

Yet even after weeing, the urge to urinate still wouldn’t pass.

Aged 18, it had come on out of nowhere.

When it started happening most nights, I spoke to my GP.

A cystoscopy failed to show any problems with my bladder, though.

‘It’s nothing to worry about,’ my doctor said, brushing it off.

So over the years, I just learnt to live with it.

Then, in summer 2015, when I was 27, out of nowhere, I developed a sudden urge to wee.

My bladder felt full, painful.

Yet when I went to the toilet,

I could only go slowly and was in agony.

At Yeovil District Hospital, I was put under while doctors inflated my bladder with water and examined it.

When I came round after, doctors had answers…

‘We found a stricture in your urethra,’ I was told.

It meant my urethra had narrowed, restricting urine flow.

‘It’s very rare in women, it usually affects men,’ one of the doctors explained.