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torn urethra

Postby jules21 » Tue Nov 25, 2014 3:24 pm

i slipped while clipping in yesterday and landed on my seat. swore - and kept riding. got home, went to the boy's room and started passing blood :shock:

ate dinner before telling the missus and then got her to drop me off at hospital. i highly recommend not injuring your junk, the medical treatments are exclusively lacking in fun. it turns out i had a small hematoma on the urethra - mercifully saving me from surgery. but the x-ray and camera inspections - oh man...

there's something disconcerting about having teams of male and female doctors congregating around your exposed genitals and inserting stuff up inside.. but that is soon forgotten when the sensations take over :cry:

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Re: torn urethra

Postby find_bruce » Tue Nov 25, 2014 3:27 pm

Owwww, I am crossing my legs in sympathy. Hope you heal quickly

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Postby silentC » Tue Nov 25, 2014 3:41 pm

Hmm, gives a different spin to 'deep in the pain cave'.

My old man had his prostate out a year ago and he said he very quickly lost any residual feelings of embarrassment about having his bits poked about by all and sundry.
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Re: torn urethra

Postby mick243 » Tue Nov 25, 2014 3:51 pm

Ummm.... is that as painful as it sounds?

heal fast brother.

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Re: torn urethra

Postby ColinOldnCranky » Tue Nov 25, 2014 3:53 pm

When yo are comparing injuries around the BBQ I'd suggest you just say you had a Hematoma. :oops:
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Re: torn urethra

Postby jules21 » Tue Nov 25, 2014 4:25 pm

mick243 wrote:Ummm.... is that as painful as it sounds?
the injury wasn't painful but having diagnostic equipment inserted... another story..

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Re: torn urethra

Postby CKinnard » Tue Nov 25, 2014 4:39 pm

diagnostic imaging....or it didn't happen! :D

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Re: torn urethra

Postby HiChris » Tue Nov 25, 2014 6:47 pm

That's gotta hurt, heal fast. Bad things happen in hospitals. I know I just got out!
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Re: torn urethra

Postby GH » Tue Nov 25, 2014 10:14 pm

Can definitely empathise/sympathise, I had a big race car crash 5 years ago, that 5/6 strap on a harness
does or can do a lot of damage. Few days in hospital and many stitches later, a few months recovery, and
things worked again. Still have some very localised pain, and am told its permanent.

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Re: torn urethra

Postby jules21 » Wed Nov 26, 2014 7:53 am

CKinnard wrote:diagnostic imaging....or it didn't happen! :D
i wouldn't want to boast CK :)

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Re: torn urethra

Postby fixedlegs2012 » Wed Nov 26, 2014 8:03 am

Hope you heal quick mate

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Re: torn urethra

Postby jules21 » Wed Nov 26, 2014 12:57 pm

thanks everyone, all the best GH and dungee.

every time i pee i'm now holding my breath - hoping not to see blood!

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Re: torn urethra

Postby isabella24 » Wed Nov 26, 2014 9:46 pm

Oh jules!! I'm female and still crossing my legs!
Wish you all the best anyway.
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Re: torn urethra

Postby jules21 » Thu Nov 27, 2014 8:32 am

isabella24 wrote:Oh jules!! I'm female and still crossing my legs!
Wish you all the best anyway.
thanks isabella. worse things can happen though..

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Re: torn urethra

Postby outnabike » Thu Nov 27, 2014 9:19 am

Not a good thing to happen Jules,
A mate has had a bout of kidney stones and the treatment is something to not want as well.
I had to stop him from giving me an inight to the process, so I sympathise. :)
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Re: torn urethra

Postby bigfriendlyvegan » Thu Nov 27, 2014 11:11 am

jules21 wrote:thanks everyone, all the best GH and dungee.

every time i pee i'm now holding my breath - hoping not to see blood!
At least you know where it's coming from. It's a lot worse if you start to pee blood and there's no obvious cause.

I bet you'll take much better care of your hydraulic brakes from now on. :D

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Re: torn urethra

Postby TonyB » Thu Nov 27, 2014 12:35 pm

Hi Jules,

I certainly can sympathize with you, 5 years ago after I had a Prostate Biopsy I was peeing blood clots, I went off to ED only to have an irrigation catheter (much larger than a normal catheter) placed up my urethra, it was one of the most painful experiences I have ever had, as it turned out the blood clots cleared naturally and I did not need the catheter inserted but they left it in all night and gave me some local anesthetic gel to place around the tip, it hurt when peeing for months after but that was the least of my problems, the Radical Prostatectomy that I had a few weeks later was another very unpleasant experience.

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Re: torn urethra

Postby jules21 » Thu Nov 27, 2014 12:45 pm

(warning: graphic description)

thanks again guys

TonyB - that is eye-watering stuff.. i had a camera inserted through a catheter. they had a sheet up (initially i was told i would be under a general anesthetic.. my pulse increased a bit when i realised it would be just a local) so i couldn't see what they were doing, but it seems the catheter goes into the tip, which allows for insertion of the camera. it was mercifully quick, but i didn't know how long it was going to take and the intensity certainly caused me to panic a bit. the night before they'd inserted a catheter to inject some contrast dye for an x-ray. that wasn't fun but this was worse!

i'm still passing a bit of blood every now and then - i 'squashed' it this morning and that resulted in some bleeding. but otherwise it seems to be healing.

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Re: torn urethra

Postby twowheels » Thu Nov 27, 2014 4:48 pm

ColinOldnCranky wrote:When yo are comparing injuries around the BBQ I'd suggest you just say you had a Hematoma. :oops:
Snag anyone? (insert google image search "prick with a fork" here) https://www.google.com.au/search?q=pric ... CAYQ_AUoAQ

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Re: torn urethra

Postby TonyB » Thu Nov 27, 2014 7:33 pm

Hi Jules,

Your experience does not sound good, I hope you get better soon, one bit of advice I will give you is not to get back on your bike before you have fully healed an extra week or two to heal could save you a much longer stint off the bike, as recently has happened to my training mate, he got on the bike to soon after a recent Prostate Biopsy is now not able to ride until Feb.

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Re: torn urethra

Postby jules21 » Thu Nov 27, 2014 7:42 pm

twowheels wrote:Snag anyone? (insert google image search "prick with a fork" here) https://www.google.com.au/search?q=pric ... CAYQ_AUoAQ
someone put a fork in me!

Tony, unfortunately i've been training like a dog for Tour of Bright, so not so easy (it's in a week's time). the doc did give me the OK to ride - the prostate gland is in a more vulnerable position for riding than my... umm, old fella.

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Re: torn urethra

Postby TonyB » Thu Nov 27, 2014 8:08 pm

Hi Jules,

Good luck at the Tour of Bright, I hope things go well, I am jealous.

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Re: torn urethra

Postby jules21 » Thu Nov 27, 2014 8:53 pm

thanks Tony, i'm waiting to see how I go before trying to make anyone jealous!

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Re: torn urethra

Postby Mulger bill » Thu Nov 27, 2014 9:36 pm

twowheels wrote:
ColinOldnCranky wrote:When yo are comparing injuries around the BBQ I'd suggest you just say you had a Hematoma. :oops:
Snag anyone? "prick with a fork"
Strange...
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Re: torn urethra

Postby BaldPatch » Fri Nov 28, 2014 3:00 pm

Injuries in that area can be painful.
An ex girlfriend once rode me like a Stolen BMX and i thought it was broken.
Another incident whilst ironing a shirt naked was particularly painful too.
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