Guest M 26,
I second the insight that there can be wide variability in bladder capacity and control. As for pain, I have a neurogenic bladder, which gave me pain as intense as any I have experienced. At its worst, my bladder held a measured 1.25 ozs., whereupon it went into an excruciatingly painful spasm. As you can imagine, those spasms hit several times each hour, 24/7. My urologist prescribed morphine until he could operate. The cure was to infuse a nerve poison into my bladder, destroying the offending nerve endings, and, later, he gave me a sphincterotomy, surgically destroying the valves which control urination. Those bladder spasms could have destroyed my kidneys. In essence, I traded pain so bad that I would be a drug addict now, plus the real threat that those spasms posed to my kidneys, in exchange for incontinence, 24/7, with no hope or expectation that I will ever be able to live without protection. I came out far, far ahead in that deal. The urologist who put me permanently in diapers gave me back my life.
Carl
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