Have YOU been catheterized ?

No Kinky, it was a hot day and I'm not usually a beer drinker. Beer generally goes straight through you, but those 3 were consumed over a number of hours and when I got the urge to pee, I couldn't do a drop. Panic stations, so I went to the hospital for a catheter. Total relief to get rid of the problem. That happened 12 years ago but I still worry that it could happen again.

I've been self-cathing for about 6 months. I do it 3-4 times per day. My urologist said my bladder muscles were weak and I can only empty about half of the urine alone. I'm used to it now, but it has NO erotic quality for me.

I asked the urologist what would happen if I didn't do this. He said that my urine would back up the ureters and cause kidney damage.

Yes during child birth after the epidural

Just my little piece of story: I am just back from a hospital where I was treated for a urinary tract infection that was quite bad up to itself.

In the hospital I was catheterised and it was one of the worst experiences of my life. It was done a first time by a (maybe) non-expert nurse who pulled it off after trying. So after about half an hour a doctor came and did it. It was very painful. Not only for in double insertion but also the first (and only) 24 hours that followed, as apparently at any movement in bed it moved and gave me really bad pains. I even stopped eating altogether as you are not interested in food when under such a pain.

During this whole time I thought of those here at City who consider catheters as sexually arousing. Of course I would never be judgemental, as I also have my own strange fetish, but I have to admit that never for a moment I felt anything remotely similar to any sexual feeling. Maybe it was the way it was done, or my underlying condition, but well, I will not include catheters among my sexual toys!

Long story short, after 24 hours I asked the doctor to please remove it, and after she tried to say that this would not be recommended, I am glad that she listened to me and realised that it was completely unnecessary in my case. After it was removed I felt one of the most relieving moment of my entire life.

Yes, after a car accident I was in the ER. They detected blood in my urine and wanted to do some radiology. That required catheterization. A cute lady ER doctor put it in. I was feeling to beat up but managed to joke with her. I asked her to be gentle with me because it was my first time. All good until he got to my prostate where it makes a sharp turn. But after that it was fine and I didn't need to get up to pee.

The last time was when I had a kidney removed. After waking up in recovery I looked myself over and it appeared I had a freaking garden hose in my schwanz. I had it in for about three days.

Yes, so many times…hurt like hell going in….very traumatic as a child…last time was around 8 years ago…hated it…or it could have been the nurse doing it…who knows.

The one time that it was professionally done was when I was 19 and in a motorcycle accident. I got T-boned by an old guy who had forgotten about a stop sign on road that had only been there for a year..sigh. I had some nasty damage to my left leg and a separated pelvis. They put the catheter in to make sure that I didn't have any internal damage (which I was one of the very few that didn't). I do remember when they removed it about a week later, doing a parts check to make sure that everything was still there (VERY bruised I might add).

I've done a few by myself, some Foley and some intermittent just for play…

Elaine

Got one after I went to an urgent care after thinking I tore “ something ” and was in severe pain. Found out after tests, that I was about 2-4 hours from death. Immediately taken to hospital ER for more tests. Turned out that I had a bladder infection poisening my blood, and hooked to a cath for nearly 2 weeks while in ICU. Once feeing better, I enjoyed the nurses tending, removing, and replacing my cath. Got hooked on after that. No control at all. Now I have 2 kinks. Enemas and catheters.

Yes most painful experience. I was in ER being treated for kidney stones. They cathed me but nothing came out both sides were blocked had to have surgery to remove stones & had stents put in

Only ones. I was in ICU. I don't remember all, but pain was not so bad. I remember size - 18FR, red ring on it.

After 3 days they removed catheter.

A little over a year ago for a 10 day stay in the hospital because of a Pleural Effusion. I didn't find it fun in any way. But if that floats your boat then feel free to indulge.

I had hernia op last in Feb and last month. Could pee when arrived, when woke up could not. (Anesthesia?} Went back, catheter for 4 days, did not see balloon, pulled, blood everywhere. Back to get a cath for 16 days, the Urologist's bitc_ said 2 weeks, was ready to whatever. Had to ejaculate blood around catheter. Last month wanted it out in 2 days like girlfriend's brother-in-law. Called surgeon's office, got out 4th day. True.

Once - for a hip replacement with a spinal. Had it removed in the PACU. Felt like I was peeing razor blades for a few days after.

3 times total..the first was in the hospital ER for a kidney stone I had to give a urine sample and couldn't go after about 30 minutes nurse came in and did it . The other 2 times was during hip replacement surgery.. on the day after surgery nurse remove it

@chelle300 surgery seems extreme for kidney stones

@nath42 - surgery for a kidney stone that blocks a ureter and causes a hydronephrosis is common. Using a cystoscope, a Stent is placed in the affected ureter to allow the stone to pass and to allow any further stones to pass. Usually, this is done under general anesthesia or deep sedation.

Yes, but never in a hospital setting. I did it myself a couple of times to try. It wasn't horrible, but I didn't use a large catheter and I didn't have any lower urinary tract symptoms at the time.

I had a cardiac procedure and woke up with a cath. It wasn't horrible. The nurse came in later and yanked it out.

I haven’t. I’m sure most people don’t think about it, but I’m familiar with what they are and kind of want to try.

Have I been cathed? Yes over and over , now I live with a catheter in 24/7 for medical reasons . Weather or not it hurts depends on who puts it in or takes it out . If the wrong person does it to you It can get really bad . One nurse just three months ago put in way too small catheter in me that put me in the E.R. and I had to get a much larger one so I could drain and not plug it up .

If its put in slowly it can be very erotic , If put in too fast panful . And how it feels is different for every one . So slow for me might be too fast for you .

I now have mine changed once a month . Once a month a nurse now comes to my house , and as I lay here she takes one out , cleans me , disinfects me, shoots a mixture of lidocaine and lube in me then in goes my new catheter with a now 30cc balloon . She strikes a good compromise between too fast and too slow and I feel nothing . I mean its in and balloon filled before i know it . What I have found is as I sit on a firm seat and say reach for my coffee , the catheter , as it goes though my prostate causes “Oh My” feelings. As i lean back to sip my coffee it hits again . Before I can finish my coffee I have to stop and clean myself up . Now I didn't get a catheter to get myself off . But at my age its the best thing going right now . Oh I'm sitting on a firm seat and I have to reach forward next to my laptop to get my coffee right now .

@nytwatch1

I hear ya on the wrong person doing it. I've had to get cathed many times due to a large prostate. Once in Stockton I ended up with blood all over because UT was done with the wrong cath.

A year ago, a PA in my uro's office cathed me. We went out to dinner and afterwards when I stiid up I got the worst pain. My bladder ended up filling with blood which clotted. I went to the ER and got scoped. The dr hat to pit a wire into my bladder to get the new cath in. It ended up that the PA didn't fill the balloon up all the way and when I stood up at the restaurant, it pulled the underinflated valloon into my prostate.

Just once in a real medical setting. I'd had a kidney stone removed by ureteroscopy, under general anaesthetic. They must have put the cath in at the end of the op, presumably just to let stuff drain out post-op. It was removed by a nurse shortly after recovery, very discretely I have to say and with minimal embarrassment. Then I had to drink lots of water and pee regularly until there was no blood - standard practice after a cath I'm told. All very easy - I went down to theatre mid afternoon and was home that evening.

When I had my hysterectomy. I wasn't awake when they put in my catheter. A female nurse came and took it out the next morning after my surgery. Until I joined this site, I never gave a thought if it was put in by a male or female nurse or how exposed I may have been.

It was weird seeing pee come out and not feeling anything. I didn't have any pain or soreness associated with it during or after it was removed. I'm not sure if that was because I was more focused on my abdominal wound healing.

That's right . If it's done correctly you don't even know it's there . If done incorrectly you are in trouble and a world of pain .

I just now got back from a bladder C.T. scan . It hasn't mattered what I have said to every Doc or nurse . It doesn't matter why I have to have a catheter , The scan was for kidney stones , something I have never had . Have no history of . Nor do I ever expect to have . Nor is there any reason to think i might have . Just a Compleat waste of time and MY money . $50 for the driver , $75 for gas and I'll get the bill for the C.T. scan next week . I have received more and better Info on how to take care of my catheter and my self here on this site than I have from any Doctor or nurse so far . Keep it clean , Keep it germ and bacteria free , Don't walk off and forget the drain bag . {you'll come up short, I have} Learn how to sit and move so you don't cause you're self problems .

Yes, I’ve had it done for actual medical necessity a few times. I have had it done in non medically necessitated circumstances.

I’ve been catheterized three times. Twice during surgery so I was out for the insertion. I only recall being awake when it was pulled one of those times and that nurse wasn’t very nice. The third time was totally preventable. I had gone to the ER with a bad stomach virus and they had me pee in a cup for a urine sample. A while later the nurse came back and told my the sample had been contaminated. No idea what that meant, but she told me I had to be catheterized. I asked if it would hurt and she said no. But it did hurt. Those things sting like hell going in. She was way nicer than the last nurse. I only wish she had prepared me better by saying it might sting a little. For me, those little warnings help. For example, I’m a needle-phobe - especially when drawing blood from my arm - and a nurse once said, “Ok, little pinch.” That conditioned me for life. Pinching is way less scary than sticking or jabbing. So each time I give blood now, I recall her words, and my anxiety level goes way down.

To make it sting she didn't use enough lube in you're penis or the catheter . Then she probably was too fast then hesitant then too fast putting it in .

Hay look at this , I'm starting to know something useful in my old age . In the last five months I have been catheterized seven times once it wouldn't go in and it was discarded and a new larger one put in . Usually by pair's of nurses , I have had cameras in me now . More then once I had to give a formal interdiction to my knee's to each other . { i had to pause and lost what I was going to say A flock of quail just came to my front door}

Yep. I went in for surgery and I figured they would be putting a catheter in me. I was never told they would. It was my first time to be cathed and I was looking forward to it to see what it felt like. I crossed my fingers for a cute female nurse. Went into surgery all prepped with no catheter and no indication there was going to be one. Later, in recovery I discovered I had been cathed after I was out. No idea of who in the OR did it. A couple days later the nurse pulled it out and that was uneventful.

Had surgery once woke up with the catheter in do not remember it going in must have been under. Was in for two days and remember the nurse coming into to take it out deep breath and pulled it out and clean the area. Was a while before I try to pee but told if I did not go catheter would go back in fi al went burn9 firs time bud fine after that