For some people with non-obstructive retention, yes. It may let them reduce or stop catheter use.
Key points
- Not everyone responds, which is why there's a trial first.
- Results vary.
When should I come in about this?
If “InterStim for Urinary Retention: will I be able to stop using a catheter” is the reason you are looking us up, call 678-344-8900 or book online and we will see you at our Sandy Springs Clinic & Surgery Center at 1450 S Johnson Ferry Road, or at our Decatur Clinic at 2711 Irvin Way. Being unable to pass urine at all belongs in an emergency department, or with 911, the same day. If you have been catheterized or still feel you cannot empty, we will review why, check a urine study and, when it would help, the bladder with ultrasound, and talk through procedures Advanced Urology already offers when obstruction from the prostate is the cause. Please bring a photo ID, insurance information if you carry it, a medicine list, and a note of any recent catheterization so the first visit at the office can be used for a real plan.
We would like to see you in Sandy Springs
Our Sandy Springs Clinic & Surgery Center at 1450 S Johnson Ferry Road, which has its own surgery center, and our Decatur Clinic at 2711 Irvin Way are both ready to welcome you. One number books either office: 678-344-8900.
Request a visit at Advanced Urology to go over your options. Call 678-344-8900 Book online
Further reading
- Read the full answer to this question on advancedurology.com
- Enlarged prostate (BPH): Advanced Urology overview
How our Sandy Springs urologists think through this question
When someone brings this exact question into our Sandy Springs Clinic & Surgery Center, 1450 S Johnson Ferry Road, it gets a full hearing. Our Sandy Springs urologists give that question the time it deserves. In Sandy Springs our urologists sit with the story you bring, the tests already in hand, and what would actually change the plan, and then we talk about a procedure if one belongs in the discussion. When treatment comes up in Sandy Springs, we stay with what Advanced Urology already offers: finding why the bladder is not emptying, which may lead to a catheter in an emergency and later a procedure such as those Advanced Urology offers for prostate obstruction, or InterStim when the practice has recommended it for retention. If a popular option is one we do not offer, we will tell you so at the Sandy Springs visit. If a detail here disagrees with what you have been told, bring that to 1450 S Johnson Ferry Road and we will sort it out with you.
What a visit at Sandy Springs is usually like
The first appointment at our Sandy Springs Clinic & Surgery Center, 1450 S Johnson Ferry Road leaves room for you to tell the story in your own words. In that first conversation we ask how long the problem has lasted, what you have already tried, and which medicines you currently take. An exam is often part of that first Sandy Springs visit, and we walk through any urine study or scan before it happens. If a later procedure needs a surgery center, we will tell you whether it is scheduled here at 1450 S Johnson Ferry Road or at another Advanced Urology surgery center, and how to prepare. At the desk at our Sandy Springs Clinic & Surgery Center, 1450 S Johnson Ferry Road, please have a government-issued identification, insurance information if you carry it, and the names of the medicines you take; old records help, and we can see you even if the file is still coming together.
When to call our team at Sandy Springs about this
Call 678-344-8900 when the question you just read is the one on your mind, or when a test result named here has just arrived. We will get you on the Sandy Springs schedule, or you can use online booking, and we will tell you the earliest opening we can offer. Heavy bleeding, clots that stop you from urinating, a fever with pain in the side or back, or being unable to pass urine at all should be handled in an emergency department or by calling 911, rather than waiting for a routine slot at our Sandy Springs Clinic & Surgery Center, 1450 S Johnson Ferry Road.
A video from Advanced Urology that relates to this topic
The official practice channel clip below was recorded as background for the same concern people bring to our Sandy Springs Clinic & Surgery Center, 1450 S Johnson Ferry Road.
Prostate medicine not working? 3 options to help. Watch on YouTube #003 - Rewiring Bladder Control: How InterStim Transforms Overactive Bladder. Watch on YouTube
Other reading from Sandy Springs
If you arrived here because of InterStim and the problem is bowel leakage rather than urinary retention, see our bowel leakage page and InterStim for bowel control.
What the video covers
On this Sandy Springs page the official video we link is titled Prostate medicine not working? 3 options to help. Topics noted in the public listing include Don't stop your medicine on; Several procedures can open the; UroLift holds the prostate open; HoLEP and ThuLEP use a. Those short phrases come from the public YouTube description; we have not added quotes.
What the video covers
On this Sandy Springs page the official video we link is titled #003 - Rewiring Bladder Control: How InterStim Transforms Overactive Bladder. Topics noted in the public listing include What Youâll Learn in This; Resources & Next Steps:. Those short phrases come from the public YouTube description; we have not added quotes.