Blubear
Senior member
- Joined
- Oct 24, 2009
- Messages
- 941
- Reason
- Lost a loved one
- Diagnosis
- 09/2009
- Country
- US
- State
- Wa.
- City
- Puyallup
Hi Everyone,
My dad is in the hospital right now because he cannot urinate on his own. They put a catheter in and there was blood. He had this problem one other time back in Sept. right before he was leaving for the hospital to get his PEG. We wrote it off to stress. He is currently not in a hospital that has any type of specialization with ALS, and the doctors there are saying that him not being able to urinate is ALS related. That doesnt make any sense to me what so ever. Seems that with ALS you would eventually lose your ability to hold the urine, not the other way around. They finally put him on some antibiotics today just in case it is a bladder infection. He does have some bowel impaction so they are giving him enemas etc... and if the impaction is not causing him to not urinate they are saying that they will send him home from the hospital tomorrow to have a catheter in for the rest of his life. I just have never heard of this problem before being related to ALS. Anyone else out there had this problem - of not being able to go?
Thanks to anyone in advance!
Hugs, Kari
My dad is in the hospital right now because he cannot urinate on his own. They put a catheter in and there was blood. He had this problem one other time back in Sept. right before he was leaving for the hospital to get his PEG. We wrote it off to stress. He is currently not in a hospital that has any type of specialization with ALS, and the doctors there are saying that him not being able to urinate is ALS related. That doesnt make any sense to me what so ever. Seems that with ALS you would eventually lose your ability to hold the urine, not the other way around. They finally put him on some antibiotics today just in case it is a bladder infection. He does have some bowel impaction so they are giving him enemas etc... and if the impaction is not causing him to not urinate they are saying that they will send him home from the hospital tomorrow to have a catheter in for the rest of his life. I just have never heard of this problem before being related to ALS. Anyone else out there had this problem - of not being able to go?
Thanks to anyone in advance!
Hugs, Kari