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Male catherization

I do home health nursing. I have a male quadriplegic. I straight cath him 4x per day. I literally feel like I'm doing CPR on his bladder to get urine back. His stream is slow but study, it's like he has pockets in his bladder. I usually get around 600 cc in the morning but as the day progresses I keep getting smaller amounts. He drinks coffee and several large glasses of water during the day. Any ideas on how to get urine back without feeling like I'm doing CPR? Any thoughts would be appreciated. I use a 16fr caudet catheter. He has been a quadriplegic for 2 years and while I'm catching him, he gets an erection.

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    Has he got prostrate issues? May be an alpha blocker could help.

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    I'm not aware of any prostrat problems. He was on Flonase prior to his motorcycle accident,but his doctor told him that since he didn't pee like he did prior to his accident so he took my client off of Flonase.

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    If there is no infection, prostate could be an issue, may be he needs to go back on flomax

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    I did suggest that he try Flomax again and his response was " I'm on to many damn pills as it is now". Thank You for your response.

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    I'm not aware of any prostrat problems. He was on Flonase prior to his motorcycle accident,but his doctor told him that since he didn't pee like he did prior to his accident so he took my client off of Flonase.

    Flonase? It's a sinus med up here!

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    Flonase? It's a sinus med up here!

    Guessing she means tamsulosin which is branded as Flowmax. It's used for BPH.

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