Reply: Catheter question for long flight..

Hello Derren,

I’d be very careful buying any online, if you can find any, as I wouldn’t be sure on 1) if theyre legitimate, and 2) if they’re still in date and have been stored correctly. Imagine being on a plane and having a catheter split inside you because the material has degraded, and you’re faced with a potentially life and death emergency! The reason prescriptions are needed is to control the quality of the catheters and ensure only people who are told how to use them can use them.

It is actually very easy to get the prescription, and with this you’ll be able to get the catheters with no effort and for an incredibly cheap price (prescription cost).

Basically you need to find a private urologist and pay for a consultation, which may be up to £200. You need to discuss this condition and reassure them that it’s not a physical problem, rather it’s a mental one. You can then mention what you’ve already tried, and if it’s failed. Then mention you’ve read online at the UKPT forums about some people having success with intermittent self-catheterisation and you’d like to be prescribed them and shown how to use them by one of the nurses (they’ll tell you how, not make you do it in front of them, it’s fairly risk free so they’re happy for you to go home and try it, or go to a private bathroom and try it).

If you wish to provide your email to the chair of UKPT, he’ll be happy to put you in contact with me by email where I’m happy to share which urologist I used, which you’ll probably be able to use to. Use the email address in the Contacts tab

Hi
Do you have a link where these catheters can be purchased without a prescription? A google search doe bring up some results but they all require a prescription.
Thanks.

Hi Roger
You don't really need to know how it works. When you get one it will be obvious, and it is foolproof.
Cheers
Andrew

Exactly how does this work please can’t quite see how this works on the website
Regards roger

I use Coloplast SpeediCath Compact, Google Coloplast 28692 to see it.

It’s great for discretion, it’s slightly larger than a pen and is a plastic tube packaging. I can probably fit 4 of them comfortably in my Jean pocket with nobody being able to see, you just unscrew the top, pull the cath out, use it, then push it back into the tube and screw it back on and either discard or keep in pocket as it’s waterproof.

It’s great for flights as I can load them into my pocket from my hand baggage at the airport toilets before takeoff.