Posted by Vincent on 13/8/2014, 8:59 am

Hey all I haven't been on this board for long time so I thought to ask a question. As I been reflecting on things and noticed when I had paruresis bad enough to start to self catherising. This was before 2008. I had a brain tumour removed in Dec 2006 and this time I did use catheters more to avoid breath holding as I have nearly passed out doing this on couple of times before I had surgery. I have realised I was on medications to control the epilepsy which was reduced by my decision these tablets especially tegrotol Carbamazepine which is used for depression. I have tendiences to reduce them in slow manner by trial and error ways until I stopped them because the seizures really lessoned and costs were expensive and my views of corperate greed with companies of this kind. I have noticed that paruresis seemed to lesson. I had a friend who took depression tablets who had similar problems too, she also had to use catheters and she also held a lot of urine too. When I lost the catheters in 2008 somewhere I had try without catheters and I do not have so much problems but still experience it occassionally probley in certain situtations which is often resolved by walking to another toilet or tuning people out. Paruresis I notice did not kick in at the toilet at Windsor's Swimming pool in 2012 when I heard their wave machine (After looking at it eariler in day due to my interests for them) start up as the butterfly valves can be heard from the disabled toilet when it gets going and is serious of patterned clicking sounds where they open and close, where previously some sounds may trigger it also. I am still not using catheters now and I never had a severe problem with paruresis like I did in early 2000. As the past I used to either go away from people to let it out such as fields or hold it for long periods of times as experienced in previous work places. I think some Paruresis are caused by drugs as well as Anxiety and other problems including being an adult survivor of any form of abuse they may of had. I do question weather being rushed can cause problems of this kind too.

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