Oh! I really *did* have to pee!

[PikkuMyy]

I'm grateful for those times when I think I'm flaring and I finally give in and go to the toilet expecting a small trickle. I sit down, and lo and behold! I really had to pee! I breathe a sigh of relief and wish I'd gone sooner. It's a bit frustrating how I sometimes wait to go because I think I don't really need to, when in fact I do. But I'm still grateful.

Emily

[Audrey Rose]

WOW EMILY!!!
It must be so nice to actually have a volume of urine in there when you get the urge to pee!! I think I have forgotten what it feels like to pee more than 120cc. At work I am almost in awe of patients that can pee 600cc, 800cc even 1000cc at one time.
:loco: pretty insane to envy urine volumes!! But I know you understand!!

I am so happy and excited for you Emily!! Your success is a blessing and a hope to us all!!!

:woohoo:

[Sarojini]

Oooh, I know... I love that.... :) I peed 200cc once the other day, and that was WAY more than I've been peeing (usually 100-150 cc is the max, and most of the time it is WAY less).

It was COOL to be able to make a loud steady noise when I peed instead of just hearing little trickles....

'Course, I went back to trickles later that day, but it was fun while it lasted! :)

Sending hugs

[blue]

How much does a normal person Pee?

I know it must be great!

[Sarojini]

I don't know, it seems some people can hold quite a bit of urine. At least my husband can. One day I dared him to pee in my "urine hat" that I use for measuring urine output when I'm doing a voiding diary... he peed out 800cc's and THEN had the audacity to say, "Hmmm. I didn't even have to go that badly. I bet I could do 1000 if I had beer!!"

My bladder doesn't even hold 800cc's when they have me under anesthesia and they overdistend it!!!!!

As far as I know, women have smaller bladder capacities than men anyway, but I think you should be able to void 400-700 cc's per time, and you should be going 7 times or less per day.

I am highly abnormal in that regard...:shake:

[Sharon]

I know what you mean Emily, I just did the same the thing the other day. Great feeling!

[PikkuMyy]

I have no idea how much I pee. I've never measured it. I do know that I have a pretty large capacity (I think?) when I'm not flaring but when I am it gets much smaller. I just found online that 30ccs equals 1 oz. Maybe I'll measure it one of these days with a measuring cup. (Oh the fun we can have!)

Emily

[Donna L]

Did you EVER think that as a grownup you'd be discussing how much you can pee??? Oh the wonders of IC!!!:rolleyes: ::shake: ...Donna L

[PikkuMyy]

I've always had health problems and I do work as a special ed teacher so I'm used to potty training, etc. but you're right! I would never have thought I'd be talking this much about it. (Although in high school, my best friend and I wrote a punk song called "Dime Sized" about my bladder capacity - especially when we were drinking cheap beer! :D)

Emily

[blue]

LOL! I've never measured mine either! I think I should get a urine hat! Even that sounds funny!

All I know, is I feel like I have to go, then it's barely a dribble!

[arcticfox]

Speaking of measuring our urine. Where can I pick up something that will measure how much I pee? Can anyone help me?

Arcticfox:hi:

[Sarojini]

I got the urine hat at my uro's office... but I think medical supply stores sell them as well. Perhaps even your pharmacy has them. I would ask my pharmacist about it-- pharmacists usually know where to buy just about anything like that! :)

[SharonA]

I have said for many years that a good pee is the next best feeling in the world...;) :lmao: I'm sure we can all guess what the first one is. :D

[Donna L]

There are times when it's a tie;) :lmao: ...Donna L

[SharonA]

:biglaugh: Yep, Donna, you are so right.

[MakinIT]

I know....there are times when I'm stuck in traffic, get home and race for the bathroom. I swear my eyes cross and a shiver goes up my spine it feels so damn good to go.

I think, what I've read before is w/o anastetia, a woman should hold like 500 cc's....w/anastetia (sorry about spelling...I hate that word) more like 800-1200. My bladder capacity w/o anstetia is 200...And I;m squirmiing. Under ana whatever it's about 550.

Gee...your uro gave you a hat? mine only gave me cup...I hate that cause it's always "hit or miss" if you get my drift....(I truly hate peeing on my hand...causes a major ick factor for me... even if it is a "sterile" solution as my uro says...It's still pee.)

How many of you have peed your max then 10 mins later peed it again, and again 10 mins after that? I get very irritated by that. Especially when I'm trying to sleep!!!!

Pikku: what sort a special ed do you teach...I just had to resign myposition as a special ed teacher of very disabled kids...I'm on disability now. I'm very bummed...I had that spot for 10 years and now I'm going to have to find something different...(cause I can't sit on my rear and just take disability...I'm going crazy even if I am in pain) I'm going back to school in June to update my cert so I can work with visually impaired kids in their classrooms..I'll be a consultant and only work about 15 hours a week but it beats laying around home. It will give me a focus on something other than my pain.

Tracey

[Sarojini]

Yeah, my uro gave me a hat... AND a cup, in case I wanted to do my voiding diary at work and didn't want to haul that big plastic hat in to the office and explain to everyone why I was carting it back and forth to the b-room :)

[1tuffcookie]

This reminds me of a road trip I was on with my uncle back when I was a teenager without IC. We had stopped to get gas, hit the restrooms, etc. After we got back in the truck, I said, "Happiness is a full tank of gas and an empty bladder." My uncle thought it was pretty funny.

There's something really maddening that happens to me when I'm in a flare. Like with some of you, the urgency becomes so constant that I'm not sure when I really need to go. So sometimes I wait a while. Then after I do go, it becomes painfully obvious that I waited too long. My pain level goes up, and the urgency and frequency get worse. My husband has suggested several times that I time my trips to the bathroom. But I tell him I don't see how I can, because it just changes too much. And sometimes, I have kind of the opposite problem: I won't have any urgency or feeling that I need to go. Then suddenly I have painful spasms, and then I know I need to go. But by then, it's too late--my bladder is already an unhappy camper.