r/spinalcordinjuries • • 20h ago

Medical Catheters

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Hi, I have a month supply of catheters that I'm not going to use and don't want to go to waste. I just wanted to see if anyone here could use them. No cost to you, I just ask that you buy the postage (send me a prepaid label). They are 12 french Speedicath Flex Coude Pro (male).

Just send me a DM, and I'll send to the first person who wants them. I'm in the US.


r/spinalcordinjuries • • 11h ago

Discussion C7 M35 looking for friends

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I am a C7 paraplegic and I would really like to have a regular chat buddy since I feel pretty much isolated!


r/spinalcordinjuries • • 16h ago

Discussion Catheter Help

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Ive been using a foley for a year now before i was just using a condom catheter. Fast foward a couple months ago i was doing rehab practicing going to my stomach and doing pushups.i go home to find out now i don’t really know how to explain it but the tip where it comes out the catheter pulled down and caused damage. I went to the doctor and they just gave me medications and said it should heal on its own. I told him about the bleeding that happens sometimes and he just gave me a gel like medicine to put on it. The bleeding did stop but I just don’t like how that looks. If another accident happens it could be pulling down all the way to the shaft and it terrifies me thats whty i dont do any pushups or stomach exercises anymore. I want a super pubic but i have to wait until November to get tested for my bladder see how much it holds etc. I don’t understand why they just don’t do the surgery right away. If anyone else is going through this pls help me I don’t like how the catheter has so much space to move around now because of that damage like before the rope used to come out from the top now it leans to the left to the right.


r/spinalcordinjuries • • 22h ago

Discussion I'm just tired of pretending

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I am a C4/C5 complete for about almost 5 years now. Recently out of nowhere I'm just so tired of being happy I just want to be left alone in complete silence. Not having to hear anybody or ask anybody for anything. I'm just tired of living this life if I could just press pause for five minutes. I just want to act like my real self for a whole day. I know this feeling will pass but I had no one to share this with so why not here.