Have YOU been catheterized ?

Nope, Nein, NYET!!! Never have, never will.

Ive had several catheterisation.

I had one prior to an epidural and as part of recurrent UTI investigations as a girl.

Yes, hospital and urologist office. I had cath for 5months. It was great but at times it was painful.

@tommyqwerty

Don't say never. You don't know of which you write.

If you can't pee for some reason, and, yes, it can happen, you'll beg for a catheter immediately if your bladder has 600ml, 900ml, or more in it and no matter how hard you try, you just cannot get the flow started. The truth is if you can't get the pee flow started it may well get more and more difficult as time goes on. Wait too long and it can become an emergency.

I guarantee, if you haven't peed in 12 o 14 hours and you bladder is overfull with 1000ml or more, you'll beg for a catheter. And, having an overfull bladder and waiting until the nurse does a bladder scan and contacts the doctor for an order, hurts a lot more than a properly inserted straight or Foley catheter. You will bless the feeling of relief when the catheter is through your prostate and the pee starts to flow.

I’ve never been catheterized. A play doctor I was planning to meet with was going to cath me, but that fell through. I’d love to be catheterized and/or cath someone else. I know it’s unrealistic, but I’d love this in a dental setting.

After a knee replacement and due to over use of anesthetics I could not pee and definitely had to have a cath., so painful! Happened again the following day and to make things worse (or better depending on how you look at it) the two blonde nurses that came in to do it could have also been Victoria Secret models.

I had a dom I met in college catheter me for sling sessions that went on for a long time. A couple times the cathetered me for long spanking sessions.

I have for vmcug but many many years ago in single figures so not strongest of memories.

I have a catheter in me now and with short times out because of problems two weeks in diapers . I have been cathed now for about five months . And except for every catheter change getting a larger catheter put in am getting used to it to the point of sometimes forgetting it's there . Like getting up in the early AM. to make coffee and forgetting that I now have a “leash” that limits how far I can go . And a few times I have forgot to check the fullness of my leg bag when out and about . Now that I'm getting used to it I'm thinking about the ladies in Dayton Navada , there is supposed to be two ladies there that handle the handy capped .

I've never been cathed in a medical setting, but I have cathed myself several times.

I have never been catheterized but something that I want to experience. You would think that living in a state with two well know medical schools that I'd find somebody needing practice! I have been tempted to do myself but afraid. I also totally understand the need for a sterile environment. I had hernia surgery a few years ago and based on reading that I had done, I thought I was going to be but no.. No laxatives or enemas before the operation either… I felt cheated. LOL

Just a thought , In Dayton Navada there are several houses {leagle } That have ladies that cater to “needs” One the Sagebrush has at least one lady

{maybe more} that will do med fet but you need to call ahead and bring you're own supplies or pay them to have them on hand . I know one lady there that can handle men that wear a catheter and knows what to do and how to replace a catheter and knowing that made me think that I might go and spend a night there . Now think we all , one way or another like or because things done to us have grown to like a catheter being put in , there is a professional that will do it in the most OH my god way . And she is good at her job . I think for at least one of my next scheduled catheter changes I might avail myself of her expertise . Just a thought.

@nytwatch1 Go for it - after what you've been through, you deserve a treat!!!

A friend of mine also a ZB member brought some catheter samples over a while back. I was nervous to try, after hearing my partner screaming in agony during an E.R. visit ( Dr's said they couldn't give him pain meds until they had a urine sample) . But I decided to Go For It anyway. It was factory sealed and pre-lubricated . As I started it in there was some mild discomfort. I was amazed, that after sliding it in further the better it felt. Before long it was in deep and it was very erotic. I worked it in and out and it nearly brought me to orgasm. I recently bought a set of Sounds from Amazon and I use those for Penile Pleasure. The set ranges from Tiny to OMG . I can only use the first two sizes but I find them to be quite erotic as well

I had a bladder stone removed and not allowed to leave the hospital until I could pee. After 4 hours and the recovery room was closing the doctor on call was called. Luckily she was a urologist. There was only one option. She was a pro. I don't remember any pain and what a relief. Embarrassed? Why? That's what a urologist does. I guarantee mine was not the first penis she saw and at 9:00 PM the only thing on her mind was to get this thing done and get out of here.

4 times , once for a kidney stone. after trying to pee for hour at the emergency room. Nurse came in said Dr. wanted her to catheterize me .. it was my first time embarrassing and unPleasant at all . I was already in pain and need to pee but couldn’t. Not a lot of privacy either that made it even more embarrassing not much more than curtains dividing the cubicles where I was at . The other 2 time was surgery I was catheterized, the day after surgery 2 nurse Assistance came in and said that she was going to remove the catheter. Not sure why it took two because the one just in there and watched. that was painful not very uncomfortable . after she removed it after several hours of not being able to pee she came back in and had to insert a catheter to get me to pee this Was even more embarrassing this medical assistant she was young probably in her early 20s not that it really makes a difference

How well I know the embarrassment of getting a catheter in the hospital , With my first time there was one nurse female doing my blood pressure on my left , one nurse putting in a I.V. female on my right , A male nurse by my left hip instructing a male nurse on my right how to first size me then put in the catheter and a female nurse at the foot of the bed with a clipboard checking off every thing . and I was nude , After the I.V. was in that nurse and the blood pressure nurse at least tried to cover me in a gown . My last insertion I think was the easiest , My home care nurse , six foot tall , about 300 pound female did it here at home on my couch , My god that woman has to turn sideways to get in my front door , When she says lie still , I do . When she points her finger at me and tells me what to do , I say “yes mam. ” This next Thursday I go to my urologist to get this one changed and his very young nurse last time acted like she didn't want to let go of my penis . But she wasn't very good at putting it in . Hesitant , too fast at first then too slow then too fast and yes that one did kind of burn / hurt , But she was so good looking I didn't care . Also she didn't fill the balloon enough so by day three it started to fall out of me and only stopped at the end of my penis , AND THAT WAS PAINFULL . There was blood , Even so I would much rather have a catheter then ever go back to wearing a diaper .

I was recently cathed when I had abdominal surgery. I was sedated for the insertion and have no memory of the procedure. It was removed the morning after when I was having a problem with leakage. I don’t know why I was leaking but I surmised it wasn’t seated properly. It stung a bit when the nurse removed it but wasn’t painful.

About 6 years ago, I had a heart catheterization (yes, I know its not the subject of the discussion but bear with me) where they threaded the cath through my wrist. The prep included an external catheter as a precaution if they had to go through my groin. The doctor was able to use my wrist as the entry point so I never had a need for the external cath. Unfortunately, the removal was way more painful than an internal because the adhesive had stuck to my pubic hairs and I preformed a catheter ‘wax job’ removing the catheter.

Want really bad to experience it.

About two years ago, I acquired the materials necessary for the procedure from a medical supply website. When they arrived, I went to the bathroom and did a self-catheterization with a straight cath - first time ever catheterized. It was a little painful moving through my enlarged prostate, but I was successful, nonetheless. A few days later, I was having UTI symptoms, and went to Urgent Care. I had a nasty UTI, they gave me 250mg Rocephin IM, and sent me home with antibiotics and the stuff that numbs the bladder and turns your piss orange. This was January. I didn't order any more supplies for a while.

I got a new urologist after they felt something weird on a prostate exam at a different urgent care the following month. At her appointment, we tried a new alpha blocker - Rapaflow. After a month or so of that, I told her that it wasn't doing much, so she scheduled me for testing. When testing time rolled around, I arrived at the office, was escorted back by a pretty nice looking nurse. I asked her if the testing was painful. She said no, and asked me if I had ever had a catheter. I replied no. She said it's no worse than that. I undressed from the waist down, sat in their chair. It had an open bottom, and was kind of like a toilet seat but kind of cupped the backs of my thighs. She put a large bucket on a scale on a floor and turned the water on at the sink and told me to empty my bladder as best I could into the bucket. She left the room for this. I emptied as best I could. She came back and measured the urine, then walked over to the tray of stuff that was prepared ahead of time and said, "Now, with this catheter, I'm going to see what you have leftover. She grabbed a small pad with soap on it and cleaned my penis off from top to bottom, then lubed up this humungous catheter (to me, it looked like a garden hose) and started threading it into the head of my penis. I grabbed the rail and kind of winced out a few choice words. She apologized, but kept threading it in. Finally, she made it to the bladder, and a small return of urine came out. That was about the last exciting part of the testing, except when she put me on the exam table and the urologist came in and put a scope into my bladder through the urethra. Everything came out normal.

A few years later, I ordered another one from the medical supply site. I ended up in the hospital for four days with urosepsis and acute kidney injury. I was given IV antibiotics for three and a half of those days, and sent home on Bactrim. I was headed for who knows what. I just felt quite feverish and sluggish, but at the Urgent Care my blood pressure was 80 systolic and heart rate was 117. My white count was 25,000. My wife told me that I could have went to the point of no return if I had waited much longer. Sadly, I really didn't feel that sick. The NP (Nurse Practitioner) at the Urgent Care told the squad that transferred me to the hospital that I was much worse on paper than I showed symptomatically.

I am a former Paramedic and ER Technician, I have always been told my sterile technique was good, and I have cath'd quite a few folks in my tenure. Go figure. Don't think I'll be ordering any more catheter supplies for a while. All of the above is true to fact.

Last Friday afternoon. I was in the Emergency Room with a kidney stone. Was taking in a room with sliding glass doors with curtains. Nurse asked me to remove my clothes and put on a gown. when she returned she asked if I could give a urine Sample.Before I could try the lab was in to take blood and start IV. after she was done the nurse came back in with medication for pain and nausea . after that she said as soon as She got a urine sample they could get me to CT scan . I could go on my own . She returned with a catheter and tray she was very compassionate about it and talked the though the whole thing and made me as comfortable as possible

I have been self-catheterizing 4-6 times a day for the past 10+ years. At first, it was extremely difficult both physically & psychologically. But, over the years I have grown used to it, and it has become very routine for me to pee.

I was catheterized (in and out) during more than one labor and delivery. I have also been during sexual play and also in what I would call an as-needed situation, on occasion.

And, while I have used a foley specifically, I have never inflated the balloon, but I am curious about the sensation.

I was catheterized several years because of some (unintended) post-surgical urinary blockage. It was unpleasant but relieved the pressure on my bladder until I was able to pee again normally on my own. Each to his/her own but this is not my idea of fun.

@Ladybug761 inflating the balloon on a foley or any catheter won't cause any sensation. It can however be dangerous if the balloon is inflated in the urethra rather than the bladder. So if you want to inflate the balloon then make absolutely sure its in the bladder than the urethra. In males I was taught to insert the catheter until the inflation port touches the tip of the penis , in women because they have a much shorter urethra you insert until you get a good flow of urine , before inflating the balloon. You should feel no pain, if you feel pain its probably in in the urethra , so deflate immediately.

About 25 years ago I had a kidney removed because of cancer. During my recovery I was cathed to prevent any pressure in the bladder until the disconnected ureter had a chance to heal. I remember the first time a nurse lifted my sheet in the recovery room. The catheter was green and I swear I thought it was a garden hose.

@Ladybug761 inflating the balloon on a foley or any catheter won't cause any sensation. It can however be dangerous if the balloon is inflated in the urethra rather than the bladder. So if you want to inflate the balloon then make absolutely sure its in the bladder than the urethra. In males I was taught to insert the catheter until the inflation port touches the tip of the penis , in women because they have a much shorter urethra you insert until you get a good flow of urine , before inflating the balloon. You should feel no pain, if you feel pain its probably its in in the urethra , so deflate immediately.

I have had a RN. home care nurse do this several times when replacing my catheter. After she left I was passing blood and bit's and pieces of myself for day's. She is the reason I now change myself. That was four times in four month's. She got angry at me when I questioned her about whether or not it was in far enough. She would inflate the balloon at least six inches before the Y at the inflating port reached the meatus. And yes you can feel that. To me it was like a very painful “bruise ” inside me. Also I experienced very painful “Fluttering” pain as my body would try not to urinate or when the large bloody clots would plug up my catheter. @RN1993 From what I have read in you're post, you must be one out of hundreds that actually know how to correctly insert a catheter.

I have gone though NP's that told me that in no way was she going to put in that large of a catheter.{I pass large blood clot's and a lot of bladder debris} Put in a way to small of a catheter, I was back in the ER. two days later. I have had nurses that could good make a good living doing S and M movies changing my catheter. {not by choice}. I recently was told two NP's have now lost their job's because of what they have done to me. No I didn't yell or scream over the phone, or complain to their bosses. Or file a complaint. I just told my ER. Doc what happened and repeated the story to my urologist. And lastly canceled my contract with the home health care CO.

Yes one time and it painful. I don't know if the catheter was to big for me but i got a lot of pain.

Never and I hope I never do. My late father often had catheters due to having procedures for precancerous bladder polyps removed along with periodic scoping that, unfortunately, eventually turned into terminal bladder cancer. The problem was that about every third or fourth time, there would be some kind of urethral damage that would ultimately result in him developing a severe case of septicemia. There were at least two incidents I recall where he had to be hospitalized for several days on IV anti-biotics. One required an ambulance to transport him to the ER.

I have no desire of getting urine anywhere near a wound and a scraped urethra is definitely a risk.

Yes I had a surgery and spent the night in the hospital, about 10pm it became uncomfortably aware that I needed to urinate, I tried using the bathroom but between the pain meds and anethesia I just couldn’t pee. So I called my nurse, she brought in an ultrasound and looked at my bladder and was like I will be right back. About 5 mins later here she comes with the cna and a catheter kit. She asked if I had ever had one which was a no, she asked if I at least knew what it was and I said yes unfortunately. She replied with I am just going to insert it empty your bladder and remove it. From there the cna positioned me in a frog leg position in the bed, pulled the blanket down and gown up, my nurse draped me, then explained the rest how she was going to sterilize my penis and put some numbing gel in and then the catheter. She picked up my penis cleaned the tip, injected the gel which felt odd, then she said just relax and she began to advance the catheter, it wasn’t comfortable, but I wouldn’t say painful, it did seem like it kept going and going, finally urine started to flow and I had relief. As the flow slowed she moved it in and out a little and then asked if I was ready for her to remove it, I said yes and she slowly withdrew it. The cna wiped the gel off and that was it.