Information on surgical procedure to inflate/stretch bladder as a treatment for bed-wetting?
My mother has told me about having surgery while she be a child due to her bed-wetting. The surgery took place in Minnesota during the 1970's, and my mom explained to me that she would be kept in the hospital, having her bladder inflated next to fluid through a tube until it was filled to the point that it hurt. She would cry as she told the doctors she needed to relieve herself, but they would harshly share her to hold it. This procedure was performed on multiple occasions on her. What more? The doctors threatened that if she did not stop wet the bed, she would have to endure the procedure again and again. To me, this sounds abusive.
While she have asked other people - doctors even - about this procedure, everyone claims to have never hear of it. I've been trying to find some information on it for her, but I've hardly found anything. The most promising piece that I found was certainly on this site (http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090310070724AAd42uN). The question was marked as resolved, however, and it didn't hold out as much information as I was looking for. Also, Genesis Medical (http://www.genmedhealth.com/index.html?main/uc.html~main) was used as a source of information in the best answer, and after looking at the site to try to find anything relevant to the procedure, I couldn't come up near anything. The only other mentionable thing I've found while searching the internet for information is from Net Wellness (http://www.netwellness.org/question.cfm/32820.htm). Of course, adjectives I learned from this was that this procedure is perhaps still perform to this day. But then why do doctors not know of it? I find this all disturbing and frustrating. Has anyone else undergone this procedure or know anything something like it? I'm interested in figuring out how it is performed, when it be first performed... any sort of information on this, please?
Answers:
I don't think this procedure is used often for bedwetting anymore, precisely because the denial side effects -- emotional ones like you mentioned, and physical scarring of the bladder and potential weakening of the bladder muscles -- are immediately recognized in most cases to be far worse than the bed-wetting itself.
I didn't have the procedure done to myself (thankfully!) but I be "threatened" with it as a kid (about 20 years ago now) as well. Thankfully my bedwetting reduced enough on its own as I get older that my parents decided not to go through next to it. Subsequently I've talked (through online support groups) to a couple of people who actually did enjoy it done, and their descriptions of the experience sounded much like your mother's in terms of the torment and general unpleasantness of the procedure. Plus, in at least one of the cases I know the procedure did not really fix the problem -- it did increase the individual's bladder dimensions, but the side effect was that she no longer was able to get the impression the urge to urinate until RIGHT before her bladder was at the overflowing point -- and as a result, she still struggles with urgency, accident and occasional bedwetting to this day.
Look up "urodynamics" for a start as far as finding info on how it would be done -- it sounds like basically they would do equal testing procedure that is done today to measure bladder wadding and emptying function and things like that, but that they would just overload the bladder near fluid because of the idea that over-stretching it would somehow make it bigger and more resistant to bedwetting. My guess is it's not brought up anymore because it didn't work that well to open with, because of the side effects that happen at least some of the time, and also because there's a greater realization today roughly how common a problem bed-wetting is, and that it's not as much of a medical or psychological emergency as it was once thought to be. Source(s): was a LONG-time bedwetter growing up and own had conversations with various populace through online support groups... feel free to contact me if you want to know more!
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While she have asked other people - doctors even - about this procedure, everyone claims to have never hear of it. I've been trying to find some information on it for her, but I've hardly found anything. The most promising piece that I found was certainly on this site (http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090310070724AAd42uN). The question was marked as resolved, however, and it didn't hold out as much information as I was looking for. Also, Genesis Medical (http://www.genmedhealth.com/index.html?main/uc.html~main) was used as a source of information in the best answer, and after looking at the site to try to find anything relevant to the procedure, I couldn't come up near anything. The only other mentionable thing I've found while searching the internet for information is from Net Wellness (http://www.netwellness.org/question.cfm/32820.htm). Of course, adjectives I learned from this was that this procedure is perhaps still perform to this day. But then why do doctors not know of it? I find this all disturbing and frustrating. Has anyone else undergone this procedure or know anything something like it? I'm interested in figuring out how it is performed, when it be first performed... any sort of information on this, please?
Answers:
I don't think this procedure is used often for bedwetting anymore, precisely because the denial side effects -- emotional ones like you mentioned, and physical scarring of the bladder and potential weakening of the bladder muscles -- are immediately recognized in most cases to be far worse than the bed-wetting itself.
I didn't have the procedure done to myself (thankfully!) but I be "threatened" with it as a kid (about 20 years ago now) as well. Thankfully my bedwetting reduced enough on its own as I get older that my parents decided not to go through next to it. Subsequently I've talked (through online support groups) to a couple of people who actually did enjoy it done, and their descriptions of the experience sounded much like your mother's in terms of the torment and general unpleasantness of the procedure. Plus, in at least one of the cases I know the procedure did not really fix the problem -- it did increase the individual's bladder dimensions, but the side effect was that she no longer was able to get the impression the urge to urinate until RIGHT before her bladder was at the overflowing point -- and as a result, she still struggles with urgency, accident and occasional bedwetting to this day.
Look up "urodynamics" for a start as far as finding info on how it would be done -- it sounds like basically they would do equal testing procedure that is done today to measure bladder wadding and emptying function and things like that, but that they would just overload the bladder near fluid because of the idea that over-stretching it would somehow make it bigger and more resistant to bedwetting. My guess is it's not brought up anymore because it didn't work that well to open with, because of the side effects that happen at least some of the time, and also because there's a greater realization today roughly how common a problem bed-wetting is, and that it's not as much of a medical or psychological emergency as it was once thought to be. Source(s): was a LONG-time bedwetter growing up and own had conversations with various populace through online support groups... feel free to contact me if you want to know more!
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