Posted by Kel on 25/11/2006, 2:36 pm, in reply to "Re: Calling all females!" Nice to see that another woman has found this wonderful site - and believe me it was my saviour!! I've been suffering with AP since I was very little - I'm now 23 (my mum told me about all of the problems I had.) I was very lucky when it seemed to either go away or I just wasn't that aware of it for a few years and then about 5-6 years ago when me and my boyfriend moved into our own flat it seemed to come back with a vengence (at this point I still didn't know what it was and thought I was just being silly). Then it started getting REALLY bad and I was getting severly depressed by it and near enough stopped going out alltogether. Then I went to see my doctor- as I thought there may be a problem with me and she told me I had shy bladder and went onto saying that eventually I would go if I tried hard enough. So I went away and tried this but it got worse and after having an AWFUL day out I started to google it and came up with Stephen Soifer's book so I brought that and read that there are support groups out there so once again I googled and came up with this site. I almost cried when I saw soooooo many people also suffered with the same thing. After a while I plucked up the courage to go to the beginners workshop and it CHANGED my life it was soooo good to meet so many people who had the same problem and to discuss freely the problems that I had been avoiding for years!! After that I attended an improvers workshop and got more helpful tips and advice. I invested in an MP3 player (like Andrew suggested to you) and it is now my new buddy I take it with me everywhere and places that I knew I could NEVER have a success I now have a 80% success rate - which is 80% more chance than I had before. I would strongly recommend it to anyone - the only thing I have to be careful with now is making sure I don't sing too loud to the tracks that I love - fine if you have a good singing voice but not for me I hope some of this has helped you and if you feel you would like to chat more please feel free to ask Andrew for my email address. Take care LOL Kelxx
Hi Michelle 
I also got prescribed self caths at my urolgists this week after a slightly long battle (they do have to check that there arn't any physical things wrong with you) and the nurses that helped me were lovely. I don't find it does hurt that much a bit wierd (worth it though) but they are really compact and fit into the smallest of handbags and no one would suspect a thing! I havn't had to use one yet but IF I do get into a situation which is impossible I know that I have a way out of it.107
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