Reusable cloth pads?
Posted: Mon Aug 12, 2013 9:39 pm
Hello all.
My dribbling problem persists. I have talked to my GP and she determined my prostate is enlarged and she had me try 2 different kinds of medication. No change in the dribbling and some strange side effects that I will not go into here... I bought some underwear from Speciality Underwearworld.com and have used then with success. I have bought and gone through a couple of bags of Tena male guards and a few other brands as well. The Tenas seem to work best for me even if I am not using anything like the full capacity of the guard. Another issue I have with disposable pads is the pad seems to get scratchy or abrasive to me after it has been wet. I guess it rubs me the wrong way... So this brings me to a question to ask of other people here. (Maybe guys specifically because we are built a bit different.) I bought two yards of cotton diaper cloth and a yard of PUL. The idea is that I would have a local seamstress make me reusable pads using the Tena pad as a pattern. Then I could use these in regular underwear. I realize that I could probably buy lots of disposable pads for the price of having these made. But I feel I am wasting the pads for the little bit of a problem that I have. I don't flood. I don't have a large loss of urine throughout the day. Just little dribbles on and off throughout the day. Enough to spot my pants when I wear regular underwear. The downside will be the up-front cost, and I have found that wearing something with a waterproof front does make me perspire more in the crotch area. But the disposable pads and the special underwear do that also. That is what powder is for.
I have been to a Urologist and am scheduled to have urodynamic testing done later this month. (Oh boy! Stick tubes where the sun never shines!) Maybe this will shed light on my problem. But until then, does anyone have any experience with washable pads for light incontinence? I have not seen anything on the market similar to what I am having made. I have seen pads that run front to back and pads that do not have a waterproof backing. Neither really seem to meet my needs. Anyone else have ideas?
Thanks for the listen.
ScottK
My dribbling problem persists. I have talked to my GP and she determined my prostate is enlarged and she had me try 2 different kinds of medication. No change in the dribbling and some strange side effects that I will not go into here... I bought some underwear from Speciality Underwearworld.com and have used then with success. I have bought and gone through a couple of bags of Tena male guards and a few other brands as well. The Tenas seem to work best for me even if I am not using anything like the full capacity of the guard. Another issue I have with disposable pads is the pad seems to get scratchy or abrasive to me after it has been wet. I guess it rubs me the wrong way... So this brings me to a question to ask of other people here. (Maybe guys specifically because we are built a bit different.) I bought two yards of cotton diaper cloth and a yard of PUL. The idea is that I would have a local seamstress make me reusable pads using the Tena pad as a pattern. Then I could use these in regular underwear. I realize that I could probably buy lots of disposable pads for the price of having these made. But I feel I am wasting the pads for the little bit of a problem that I have. I don't flood. I don't have a large loss of urine throughout the day. Just little dribbles on and off throughout the day. Enough to spot my pants when I wear regular underwear. The downside will be the up-front cost, and I have found that wearing something with a waterproof front does make me perspire more in the crotch area. But the disposable pads and the special underwear do that also. That is what powder is for.
I have been to a Urologist and am scheduled to have urodynamic testing done later this month. (Oh boy! Stick tubes where the sun never shines!) Maybe this will shed light on my problem. But until then, does anyone have any experience with washable pads for light incontinence? I have not seen anything on the market similar to what I am having made. I have seen pads that run front to back and pads that do not have a waterproof backing. Neither really seem to meet my needs. Anyone else have ideas?
Thanks for the listen.
ScottK
Puffy
Meanwhile I will continue to use disposable pads which cause my problems by the woven material on the face being scratchy to me when it is damp. That gets uncomfortable after a while. And while the cloth pads will leave me being felling "wet", I have found that I prefer that to the disposable pad rubbing me the wrong way. The search continues.