I’ve had a catheter fitted twice By Hayley Green, 29, from Yeovil Determined I just have to live with it.
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.
This story is from the July 13 2017 edition of Chat.
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