750 cc, or approximately the volume of a standard bottle of wine. Thank you so much for giving me the opportunity to share this bit of info, somehow it rarely comes up in conversation.
Thanks…for some reason, getting a reply so quickly to such a wierd thing just struck me as the funniest thing to happen to me in a while!
Err… they’re 2000ml for a night drainage bag, or 500-750ml for a leg bag (one that you can wear under your clothes during the day).
OK, I don’t know which it was. It was in intensive care; they put the foley in, the nurse said “oh my god” and changed the bag (it was at the foot of the bed), then changed it again. I can’t believe it was 2000ml each time, so it must have been smaller bags or only partly full. It was sure a relief though.
My friends tease me about having a small bladder, but I’m not convinced that it’s really all that small.
I tend to drink about a gallon or more of water,sodas,tea,etc… a day, and obviously, the majority comes back out- if I had to guess, I’d think I pee maybe 7-8 times a day, mostly in the morning, because that’s when the diuretic in the blood pressure medication seems to work the strongest.
I rarely get up at night to pee, and if I don’t have a big soda on a car trip, I can make 300 miles/4 hours without stopping, or only stopping once.
My friends tease me about having a small bladder, but I’m not convinced that it’s really all that small. I tend to have the **Autolycus/Asimovianp/b] thought process going on- I go because it’s a little uncomfortable, and it’s there, not because I can’t hold it any longer.
I tend to drink about a gallon or more of water,sodas,tea,etc… a day, and obviously, the majority comes back out- if I had to guess, I’d think I pee maybe 7-8 times a day, mostly in the morning, because that’s when the diuretic in the blood pressure medication seems to work the strongest.
I rarely get up at night to pee, and if I don’t have a big soda on a car trip, I can make 300 miles/4 hours without stopping, or only stopping once.
I hate driving to Vegas with anyone but my wife for this very reason. From our house, it’s about a 3.5hr trip, and my wife understands how pissy (heh) I get about having to make a bathroom stop for that. Anyone else needs to stop halfway.
Oh, and just to completely my own bio, I do get up once a night to go to the bathroom. But I can’t say for sure if my bladder is waking me up, or if I wake up from a natural four-hour sleep cycle and realize at that time that I need to go.
If it were at the foot of the bed (weird place for a drainage bag to be honest) then it can’t have been a leg bag because the tube definitely wouldn’t be long enough, and I’m not sure that a 2000ml bag’s tube would be either. Also, they have valves at the bottom of the bag for drainage, so she wouldn’t have had to change the bag even if it were full.
I have driven 12 hours and only stopped for gas. I never get up in the middle of the night. I am in my 60s ,so that must mean something.
You’re desiccated?
I had this discussion with my wife this weekend. I have lost a fair amount of weight, and my bladder behaviour has changed with the weight loss.
Quite often now, I feel the need to pee, hit the loo, and then find I can’t, or don’t deliver much. When this happened while out last Saturday I gave up. I lasted another 3 hours with no discomfort. I suspect that without the additional weight pressing on my bladder, it can hold much more, but I still get the urge to go at about the point that my formerly compressed bladder was giving me urgency signals. I’ll see my GP if I continue to have issues, but I sleep through the night without getting up, and I think I just need to retrain myself.
I do belong to the pee when you can, cause you never know how long to the next toilet camp.
Si
Around three times a day max, but mostly just twice (morning after waking and then when getting home in the evening).
My partner is a mega-pisser and can’t get over my wondrous holding capacity. Sucks to be him then eh?
si_blakely, the habit change may just be coincidental with the weight loss. Do please get your prostate checked by a GP.
Sure it is. Northern Ireland = UK, Ireland = Republic of Ireland. Just as “international” as, say, USA to Canada or Australia to New Zealand. Both are in the EU, of course, but not part of the Schengen bloc.
It is in the things-I-must-organise list. The reason I discussed it with my wife was to ensure that she made me do something about it.
But there is an :eek: factor. So I’ll get my hemorrhoids checked as well - if I’m going to be probed :smack:
Si