CliniSure®

Hello, my name is Anna Mosley. I’m a community specialist nurse.

Today I’m going to be meeting David and Joan and listen to their experience using a CliniSure sheath.

So a sheath is a product we would use in male urinary incontinence. It’s something I thought would work well for David as opposed to using an indwelling catheter. This is a non invasive product that you just put over the penis and it attaches to a leg or a night bag and it helps to keep you dry.

So I’m here with David and Joan. David who’s been using the CliniSure sheath. So when I first come out and do an assessment and see what’s going to work best for you and I left a few samples for you to try.

How did you find? Because I know Joan, you’ve been helping David, how did you find the ease of use of of using the CliniSure sheath? Well, once I got used to it, after a few times, I found it it, it goes on quite quickly and it goes on quite quick.

And how about taking it off? Did you find it easy enough to remove the sheath? Well, David does that. Actually, yes, he can. He does it himself every day. Oh, fantastic. Yeah. Soap. And that’s and that’s it.

That makes it makes it easy enough to come off. So David, obviously you’re wearing the the sheath overnight. How did you find wearing it? Does it feel comfortable? Do you know it’s there? It feels doesn’t feel at all uncomfortable. OK.

And so it’s it’s, it’s OK from that point, that point of view. And I, I, I can get it, get it, get it off even in the morning. I think the big advantage is because it isn’t indwelling, there’s no risk of infection of course, and there’s been no skin irritation.

So from that point of view it works very well. And has there been any issues with it not staying on overnight? No, no. Fantastic. No. So how do you feel, what the benefits been since you’ve been using it? What are the things that you could potentially do now that you didn’t feel like you could do before you have the sheath?

Well, now we’ve got into the routine. It’s very easy to use and it means that it’s freed us up to, as I say, go on short breaks to leave the house, so much so that we can think of perhaps going on on a longer break and you’ll sleep.

David, do you feel that you sleep better now you’ve got the, the sheath on? Oh yes, I can go for a long, a long, long time during the night without anything. So it’s all, it’s all good.

That’s one of the most important benefits. I think really David’s because David can sleep then his his quality of life’s better because he feels so much better during the day.

So David, how long have you been using the sheath for now? Altogether about 18 minutes. I think 18 months.

And if you had any, any of your friends in a similar situation and they were kind of asking for your advice, would you, you know, suggest using a sheath? Absolutely, yes. Terribly shame not to you when the facility is there.

I didn’t dream such things existed when first started out on this epic voyage. It’s just getting the word out there, I suppose, letting people know. So what would you advice be to anybody that’s in a similar kind of situation to you that may be looking at their options?

Well, I would encourage them to give the sheath a try. We didn’t know what to expect, but because you came and explained it all and we’re very patient with us, we thought it was worth trying.

So it made made such a difference to our lives. So if anyone is experiencing the same problems, I just encourage them to to try it.