A woman has not had a urination for six years after she was beaten with a strange condition of medicines during the night.
Anna Gray, 27, spent three months in agony before she was finally diagnosed with Fowler’s syndrome, a rare condition that stops the emptying of the bladder.
Anna first noticed symptoms in November 2018 when she ended up hospitalized with a renal infection after not being able to use for days.
Later, he still had trouble going to the bathroom and had two liters of urine drained from his bladder.
Anna says she was “shaking of doctors”, who, she says, urged her to “keep trying” Wee at home.
He landed at the Hospital on Boxing Day 2018, and the doctors finally tested and discovered that he had no activity in his bladder, which means that the brain “stopped communicating” with the organ.
Anna was surprised to discover that there was “nothing else” that doctors could do, and that he could never return to “naturally.”
It was possible equipped with a permanent catheter in the stomach, a tube inserted in the leaf to drain the urine, and empties the bag attached several times a day.
Anna is now discussing the next steps with her pain handling team, and hoping to raise the absence around the strange condition.
Anna, who currently cannot work due to her illness, from Sailsbury, Wiltshire, said: “It is a massive impact of each area of my life.
“Last year I was predominantly homemade: I was affected to see friends or leave.
“Talking about going to the bathroom is still very taboo, as special among women.
“With luck, to speak, I can help others.”
Anna had never experienced bad health before waking up in November 2018, she couldn’t go for a wee.
He ended up hospitalized and doctors inserted a catheter to help relieve their Lelafer, suspecting that a renal infection was the cause.
Anna expected the problem to be ordered, until she was beaten by the same condition again in December 2018.
Anna said: “At first, when I couldn’t use in the morning, I thought maybe I just needed to go.
“But as the day I walked, I thought ‘this is not right’.
“Things like this do not happen to people of my age.
“The GP said that” keep trying “and ignites the tap to help me go.
“I had a lot of pain and there was a certain lack of communication when I prescribed me laxatives, which did nothing to help.”
Around the next two months, Anna had multiple trips to the hospital where they had to relieve their sheet with a catheter.
She pressed for more evidence and was finally diagnosed with Fowler syndrome in February 2019.
The doctors discovered that there was no activity on their sheet and revealed that “it would never work normally again.”
Anna said: “They told me there was nothing they could do and that I would need a catheter for life.
“I think I went through a grieving process to start, because it was very unknown.
“But it was a relief to know that everything was in my head.”
The condition affects only women and is the difficulty or inability to pass the urine due to the failure of the bladder sphincter muscle to relax.
The cause is still unknown, but it can often develop after childbirth or surgery.
Anna was taught how to self -sotterize five times a day to relieve the herblow manual.
But after numerous infections, it was equipped with a more permanent system called suprapubic catheter in 2020.
It is a tube inserted directly, on the leaf, the stomach is drugged and attached to a bag, which Anna empties several times a day.
Despite fighting with his mental health at the beginning, Anna has found more confidence.
She said: “Acceptance was a life condition was a lot to put my head and I was in the hospital for my mental health last year.
“But I’m slowly arriving there, and now I’m used to the bag.
“I will wear shorts and tops where you can see it, it doesn’t bother me anymore.
“People ask questions and I’m fine with that.”
Anna ended in the hospital in January 2024 when she developed the stomach sepsis in her stomach where the tube is inserted.
It ended in intensive care for three weeks, before she was unpleasant.
“I still have many problems due to the condition,” he said.
“I developed sepsis and deteriorated massively.
“I remember thinking that I was dying.
“Fortunately, he was already in the hospital and caught him on time.”
Anna underwent a clinical trial in 2020 for a sacred nerve stimulation pacemakers, a device that sends signs of the urination of the Wat brain.
Unfortunately, its bladder function was “too low” to continue the study.
For now, Anna has found comfort and support with other online sufferings.
She said: “At first I thought I should be the only person in the world who was going through something like this, it is so insulating to be in that position.
“But finding a community of people who understand it has an incredible bone.”
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