Feeling Returning During Cathing

Welcome derekpw, I have enough feeling to make cathing unpleasant and DJ has a similar situation. to answer your question on how do you cath 5/6 times a day with that unpleasantness, I only cath once before i go to bed. I don't reccomend this. I can sorta pee I just don't empty completely. I should be cathing more but I've been lucky so far, no UTI's. I understand it isn't healthy for your bladder or possibly your kidneys. My urologist did some labs and OK'd it for now. I may have a  hyper-sensitive uretha, I might just may be a giant wimp, but I try to cath as little as possible. Some say you get used to it, I never did.     

Once again Welcome and Congrats on the return. I love to hear of return after that amount of time. I'm sure many would love to have the discomfort.

I have about half my feeling, but here's some things I've noticed:
-some catheter eyelets can tug and damage your urethra and then it is uncomfortable. I experience tug and scraping with coloplast caths, but when i use Cure caths, I can't feel it at all.
-I have a spastic bladder since removing my hardware. (The hardware was dislodged and crushing my cauda equina)
- my urethra is occasionally spastic, and I can't pull the Cath out all the way right away. Ouch.

Good luck!

Knight im similar to you, when i catheterize i feel about the same.

It can be real uncomfortable...i often spasm when i start to cath and this sometimes stops the flow...my sphincter tends to clamp tight often on the catheter as i go to slowly pull the catheter out after cathing...this is quite painful ...

Sorry my imput probably dosent help with your question derekpw because im almost 3 years injured now and its pretty much always been the same.

Next week i go for  smear test Knight...so having loss of sensation, for once, will be an advantage  (its a girlie thing guys lol)