Pee is for problems

I've put a lot of thought into peeing. Problems and solutions. Too much to document in a well organised way.

Time to just dump it... ie document my thoughts (findings)... so I can put it aside and change focus.

Forget the process of discovery. 

These are pee-related problems: and my claim of cause and what works for me.

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Problems.

Wake up, go to the toilet, pee till empty, back to bed... immediately need to pee again.

Can't leave home without needing to pee while out. Several times.

Drip, dribble and leak, small quantities but embarrassing.

Pee, possibly only small quantities, many times per day. And night.

My piss stinks. Sometimes.

UTIs. Not my problem but related, possibly all one cause.

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Problem: my bladder is never empty.

It may feel empty, briefly -- but it is not.

Nurses used a hand held scanner to show me... my bladder is still half full... always.

So I just piss.

I go back to the toilet. Push out the remaining piss... and my bladder is *still* half full.

There is no muscle for pushing out the piss.

But my bladder is one solid sheet of muscle,I hear you say. Actually it's my son who tells me that.

Yes, the bladder is a balloon of muscle.

The muscle collapses -- like a water balloon -- and urine is squeezed out.

My bladder does not collapse flat enough. It fails to push out all pee. Lost muscle tone due to age, perhaps?

I am left with a still inflated bladder -- still containing urine.

So I push the pee, harder.

Nope... there is no voluntary control over my bladder.

It is constantly trying to collapse. I have no choice in the process.

So what am I doing when I sit on the toilet and feel as though I am pushing pee?

First, I am opening sphincters. *Allowing* the urine to flow from bladder to out. Allowing. Not pushing.

The bowels, though -- they can push.

I sit on the toilet and push... the poo. Poo and pee systems are close. Pushing poo through the bowels may pass some matching pressure onto the pee pipes.

But there is no *voluntary* muscle to make me pass pee.

Only sphincters which... allow... urine to pass (or not).

Urine flowa because the bladder is constantly pushing, collapsing, pushing pee out.

So what?

My bladder is always, constantly, at least half full.

My kidneys work, very well.

Kidneys add urine to a bladder which is already part full... and which quickly becomes fully full.

I very quickly feel the need to pee again.

Too many times to the toilet? That's because I have, in effect -- a half sized bladder. The rest of the bladder still holds pee which should really have already have passed.

The pee does go somewhere.

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My bladder is still, always, half full of urine.

The final penis sphincter does stop the flow.

Which leaves the tube between bladder and outside -- holding urine.

A pipe full of urine. Between bladder -- not enough pressure to push it through, and not peeing out the final distance.

Urine is sterile. At the start.

Let it sit a while in my urethra (is that right?) -- And it gets stale. Picks up bacteria. Goes off.

In the shower: I wipe the end of my penis... there is a stink of aged urine.

Right near the exit.that is stale urine. Stuck inside, very close to whatever is just outside, able to, well, rot and stink.

Smells like the wall of a night club, the day after a party. Stale and rotting urine.

In my penis it's just a small amount.just as smelly. (If, like me, you are interested in analysing these things:-)

Btw: I'm a man. I guess the process is similar for a woman. Perhaps with a less effective sphincter control system.

So... UTIs:

No practical experience but...

I'm thinking that... having a tube containing a quantity of urine, slowly rotting because it cannot escape... well, that sounds like a breeding ground for UTIs

Drips, dribbles, leaks?

My bladder is never empty. So the urethra, ditto.

The final sphincter holds it in, in the tube,

Until I lose concentration and accidentally let a bit out. Or even, the sphincter is not as water tight as it once was.

So, unexpected, unwanted, drips escape.

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That covers problems... and the one basic cause.

I hope it does :-) I'm not going back to re-read.

Of course I also have the fix.

Not perfect but logical and -- it is working for me.

But needs a separate post.

half blind. half deaf. dying of cancer.
so what?
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Dr Nick Lethbridge
Consulting Dexitroboper