re candid questions

Alton (A.Ryder(AT)ix.netcom.com)
Mon, 15 Feb 1999 18:56:16 -0500

Lisa,

I doubt if you offended anyone, and if my reply
implied otherwise, I ask your forgiveness. During
the year or so that I have been in this group we
have had questions like yours from young men,
questions about getting pregnant and knowing if
you are pregnant from young women, and a zillion
comments and questions about urination. I recall
answering questions about Texas catheters, not
exactly a topic for the newspaper.

I thought Barbara's response to be informative
and uplifting, but what does a guy know?

> I began feeling a urgency to go all the time,
> but only a little came out at a time. ...
> but I have to push my bladder and I only get
> small amounts out. So I sit there and push and
> push untill it's all out.

Sigh. Welcome to the club. Urinary disorders are
common as an after effect of TM. In a response
to Barbara Saturday, I had said it was a major
problem for me, but that information may have
been lost in the joke that followed.

Thank you for the mention of medication. I have
been enduring the problem in the expectation
that a bacalofen pump would cure it. The pump is
not yet scheduled.

Thank you for the history. It adds to our body
of information about TM.

I believe your doctor is doubly wrong about the
causality. I don't think I have ever seen an
antibiotic implicated in the literature.

Alton, whose bladder is suddenly screaming