Depends on the amount of fluid. Mom does well with "guards" they are held on with 2 elastic straps that go around her sides. The advantage is that she doesn't have all that plastic or paper touching her very sensitive skin. The packages can be identified by the little male & female figures in white outline. Wal-Mart, Rite Aid, & Walgreen have them .different name on each store brand. Rite-Aid & Wal-Mart are in med. blue & white packages & you get 40 of them with 1 set of elastics in each pkg. Mom has pretty heavy flow & they work well & she manages them by herself. They run about $11 pkg. The pull up Depends & other brands she had trouble pulling up & down & if she had any feces that would be a problem getting it all over. I used these on dad only at night as he just was afraid of having an accident. I'm sure others will chime in. So many of ones they use in hospitals & nursing homes are huge & so hard to get on & make the skin sore.

To prevent dings, I drive a Saturn, sorry to read they'll go to steel, I was planning on another Saturn when I drive this one into the ground in a few more years. I work retail, our parking lot is the test loop for the Indy 500. Everyone cuts through to get to the freeway quicker, heaven forbid they'd have to stop at that nasty stoplight. Semi's almost come through our front window on a daily basis, scares the heck out of my elderly customers to see a semi 2 ft. from the window behind them, and inching closer (sorry about that corner, truckers, I know how inconvenient it is for you). Nice coworker got a new Taurus last fall, noticed she had a good-sized dent on driver's side, rather high up on door, I thought, 6-8 inches under the window. She said it happened at work. Couple weeks later, I see a the exact same dent on passenger side, asked her about it, you should have seen her face, she's normally a peaceful woman, but...Poor thing, she probably didn't realize I have plastic doors when she started parking by me last year. The other day I came back from the bank, parked in my usual section, next to a....huge pickup, so tall the shrimpy guy who drives it prolly needs a stepstool to climb in. The car on the other side of him? My frind Dolores' car of course.Hmm, I can see how people get tempted to key cars (I would/could never do that myself). Couple monthes ago, a customer watched a junk car smack into a new car, the genius driver just parked there anyway, and went off to shop. Don't you know the witness waited for the smacked car's owner, and police were called. The offender looked shocked that she was caught. Boy I could go on and on, suffice to say it's true common courtesy is disappearing fast.

jannie My understanding of the issue is your DH has mobility problems thus an accident once in a while and occasionally problems voiding. There are options to the self cath. In This case I would not suggest a Supra Pubic Catheter. A person who can use his own functioning plumbing but only needs to have a cath to use in times he can not void naturally. The possible problems of a Supra Pubic Catheter are more than just cathing occasionally and from my understanding can not reverse the procedure to normal function sphincter muscle which would cause an incontinence issue for the rest of life. Other than an adult diaper there is a type of collection catheter that uses a condom with a tube attached to a holding bag available at many medical supply stores and your hubby can use this for the times he is having the mobility problems, They can be used/worn for long periods of time in a day. They should left off for some time so they will not cause a tender spot or sore. If your DH has been going potty since he was taught how ask him how can doing your private business in the privacy of a bathroom or bedroom be an embarrassment? Every living thing has to matriculate, if it happens naturally fine if not then a means to do so must be found or death occurs sooner and even uglier. A self-cath is easy for most people and much easier for a man than a woman to accomplish. The procedure is not painful (just rather uncomfortable) if the proper amount of lubricant is used. All insurance plans and recently even medicare/medicaid approve payment for a new catheter every time, if Dotor prescribed. A viable solution to having to pay for UTI (from reusing a plastic tube that can not really be sterilized/cleaned properly) treatments as often. I hope some of this is helpful and your DH can make a choice suitable for his needs and dignity. Lil

I agree with you Poise rocks!! I am a 32 yr. old female who has stress urinary incontinence. I use a light pad during the day & a heavy one a night. Poise is a godsend & yes they are a comfortable quality pad.