Catheter Question

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  • stub1969
    stub1969 Member Posts: 985 Member
    #22
    Come on....

    Didn't feel a thing??  I'm not sure which was more uncomfortable removal of the catheter or the drain tube.  

    Stub  

  • stevez
    stevez Member Posts: 51
    #23
    I told my wife....

    I now know what child birth is like when I went through the insertion of the large/foli catheter.  She just laughed.  Of course, after I was "settled down" a bit.  Very painful.  

  • sasha_jax4
    sasha_jax4 Member Posts: 43
    #24
    Worked as a tech

    to mirror what fox said I worked as a tech for a few years in a hospital. We have seen everything. Your nudity is not nudity to us. I often would feel bad because of patients feeling embarrassed. There we’re days when I removed 5 catheters in one day. Never thought twice.

  • Cybball
    Cybball Member Posts: 111
    #25
    sasha_jax4 said:

    Worked as a tech

    to mirror what fox said I worked as a tech for a few years in a hospital. We have seen everything. Your nudity is not nudity to us. I often would feel bad because of patients feeling embarrassed. There we’re days when I removed 5 catheters in one day. Never thought twice.

    To be very honest, at this

    To be very honest, at this point, I don't even care.  Just want this lump out of me.  The nudity part I'm fine with.  I used to work in a hospital (surgery) during college as a part time job.  Would see people naked laying on tables all the time.  At a certain point, you just don't notice anymore.  I just wasn't familiar with the process of a cath.  Never saw one inserted or removed.  Didn't know how and when they were done.  I did think the earlier analogy of removal being like starting a law mower funny.

  • kiwi68
    kiwi68 Member Posts: 110
    #26
    stevez said:

    My Experience

    My kidney cancer was found while in the hospital for another procedure that required a catheter.  I had blood in my urine for 1/2 a day and they weren't going to release me, obviously.  It cleared up and they said if it gets blocked I'll be back.  On Thanksgiving night I couldn't pee at all.  Totally blocked and went to ER.  They had to put a foli catheter in while I was awake and that was extremely painful.  Had it in at home for 3 days.  Taking it out was a piece of cake; a little pressure but felt so good to get the damn thing out.  While in the hospital it was always put in when I was out prior to surgery.  Still the removal wasn't bad.  I had a scope procedure done prior to my surgery and that required them to put a stent in my ureter while I was under.  That was very uncomfortable and I continued to have bladder spasms until they took it out.  I hate the word catheter, but not being able to urinate was worse I tell you!

    Stents - evil things

    Unrelated to a catheter, but bloody uriteric stents, I had 2 for 4 weeks each with kidney stones.   Couldn't walk more than 500 m without wanting to die, constant bladder irritation and feeling the need to pee.  I was really anxious abou the 2nd one being removed (first one was removed in surgery while under), worried I would have complications, cramping, bleeding,  and the urolgist said to me, the relief will be profound and immediate, it sure was, I jumped up, threw on my clothes and went Christmas shopping on the 23rd of December.  Evil things. Evil.  Yet some people have no problems with them at all. 

  • kiwi68
    kiwi68 Member Posts: 110
    edited January 2018 #27
    stub1969 said:

    Come on....

    Didn't feel a thing??  I'm not sure which was more uncomfortable removal of the catheter or the drain tube.  

    Stub  

    Must be a gender thing

    I have had catheters with babies and other ops but they were always removed pretty quickly post surgery while I was still under or very sedated so I have no memory of them.  I loved my catheter for this operation.  I couldn't feel it at all.  It was sooooo convenient, didn't have to get up to go the loo, when getting up and down was difficult.   It was a nice two stage one with a big wooden handle (kind of like a hand bag) and drained into another bag which meant they could meausre the top bit, drain it into the bottom bit and only empty the whole thing every other observation.   Didn't feel a thing having it taken out.   I think I felt very positive about it because it was fillig with crystal clear urine which was making all the medical staff very happy, so it was a positive sign immediately that things were going well post op.  And if you had told me 3 momths ago I would write an entire paragraph about the feelings I have for a catheter I would have looked at you and though you were bonkers.  

  • JerzyGrrl
    JerzyGrrl Member Posts: 760 Member
    edited February 2018 #28
    Cindy T in Washington said:

    I was a RN in a hospital for

    I was a RN in a hospital for many many years, and have installed and removed an awful lots of catheters.   A secret to make removal easier, is to take a big breath and hold it while they deflate the balloon, and breathe out with the removal of the catheter.  Makes an unpleasant situation a little more tolerable.

    That's great, but...

    Cindy T, that's great, to hear it helped you remove catheters when you were an RN. Any advice for patients, though?

    Wink

    Jerzy Grrl

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