What does a catheter feel like?

When enough lubricant is used and the correct size catheter is paired with the individual's urethra, it feels wonderfully invasive with a little bit of pressure as it passes through the sphincter as the cath enters the bladder. Great sensations, but not for everyone.

I too am curious. Is it better to cath yourself the first time or find someone you trust?Will it hurt? What size? So many questions.

If you've never used a cath before, it's best to find someone experienced to show you the ins and outs, so to speak. If it hurt, would we be enjoying it so much? Trust me when I say I'm not a pain slut, but I find catheter play to be divine. Unlike other parts of the male anatomy, the urethra really is bigger than most men think. Start small, a 14 or 16 Fr should do the trick and work up from there.

Does anyone use tablets like cystex to avoid infection?

Not me, I drink a lot of water and take cranberry capsules every day. I'm also on diuretics due to kidney disease and I think that helps move fluids through the system.

It is all a matter of personal preference. The catheter feels good when going in and coming out. But it has to be done correctly or it can be both dangerous and painful. First, size is important. I am not greatly gifted but can use up to a 24 fr catheter and feel good. Anything smaller than a 16 fr gives me very little feeling of having a catheter in me and is therefor not particularly pleasurable. Too small a catheter may cause it to kink up in the urethra; a larger size is therefor suggested. Sanitation is also crucial. The outside portion must be sterilized, and I also sterilize the inside of my urethra with a cotton swab soaked in alcohol or other disinfectant. Stings a bit, but really clean it out. I also like to shave the penis and about an inch surrounding just to make sure but few others do it and it isn't really necessary. Then, sterilizing the equipment is also important including using sterile gloves. At first it feels large as I introduce the catheter tip into the urethra. The is a slight constriction at the tip of the penis that the catheter must pass through, but once that is passed, it is clear sailing. I like to twist the catheter a bit as it is going in, run it in and out and maximize the feeling of the catheter moving inside the urethra. It has a peculiarly erotic feeling as hte catheter passes by the prostate. Then, the final push to get through the sphincters as you enter the bladder!! It is a strange feeling at first, but on repeated tries, it feels good and part of the eroticism resides here. But you really have to try it yourself. This is sometimes classified as a "sub" activity but I don't feel like a sub when doing it, nor do I feel as a sub when someone does it for me. It just feels good and erotic. The follow ladydocisin's advice and hit the real good stuff by taking cranberry juice in reasonable quanties!! ENJOY!!!

For some time I have thought about self catheterization, and have thought about what it would feel like and all of that.

How hard is it to do your first time, is it something that you should try and do your first time? Or is it better to have someone do it to you for the first time? I mean if you follow the procedures for sterilIzation and cleanliness and insertion is that bad to do your firs time?

What does it feel like to have ZERO control over your bladder functions and if you close off the hose, do you just end up with the feeling like you have really have to pee or is it something different?

Anyone with any insight, I would greatly appreciate any input.

I've cathed a number of "patients" and really enjoy doing it. Well... one day.. just like you... I was wondering what that might feel like. 😃 So I got all set up and dove right into trying it on myself. What an intense feeling. I kept wanting to stop but just kept bushing onward. I'll spare you all the details, I can only say I much prefer to give then receive. I think you should just "man up" and give it a try!! That's the only way you'll know!! I'd be interested to hear what you think.

You could just make an appointment with me...

Hello,

If you never had a catheter before, the few first times can be more or less unpleasant. Inserting and removing catheter should be done very slowly.

While cathed, you should not feel anything, but you'll also feel some urge and spasm - this can be normal if not so often.

Anyway, the worst part can be after removal. On the first time you'll have some burning sensation at the few first times you go urinate without the cath. This is quite normal, and will pass with time.

Be clean, safe and don't force... Catheters can be really a turn on (I love it too much), but are really dangerous...

I became interested in self-catheterization several years ago. I went online and ordered six red latex fr16 catheters, 3 fr17 foley catheters and three catheter trays. I didn't order a leg bag or any extra hoses and straps, I should have. Take your time and slowly go through the ritual of laying out all the tray parts. Totally undress and sit down with your legs parted. Now snap on the rubber gloves that come with the tray. Next,swab your penis including the pee hole with the anticeptic-soaked cotton balls. Open a packet of lubricant and have it ready. Now unseal the sterile package with the catheter. Lubricate the end of the catheter, spread apart the pee-hole and insert the end into your penis. Slowly feed the cath down the length of your penis. It will dialate your urethra as it advances. Keep feeding it in until you reach the uretheral sphincter. Now take a deep breath and shove it into your bladder. The insertion feeling is interesting but not painful. Now, either clamp off the flow of urine or drain it into a container. You no longer have control of your peeing. Attach the syringe of sterile water to the small tube at the end of the cath. Be sure it is in all the way and inflate the retention balloon which is now inside your bladder. This will seal you and insure that all urine flows into the tube. From here on there is no feeling or pain. When you want to remove it, reattach the syringe and extract the water deflating the balloon. Now, slowly pull it out of your urethra. You will experience a burning sensation the first few times you urinate, but this will pass. It was fun for a couple of times, but didn't need the burning after removal.

Bobber, how much of the water in the syringe should you use?? All of it??

DRMYK2

After sterilizing everything and removing the catheter from its package, I attached the water syringe to the small tube and depressed the plunger to see how big the balloon got. When it got to a size that I thought I could comfortably handle inside of me, I stopped and noted how many cc's of water had been used. I then reversed the process and sucked the water back into the syringe. This flattens the balloon again for insertion.

If you're going to play with catheters, you should at least know what you're doing. And based on some of the descriptions of your "techniques" here, it's clear that some of you don't. May I suggest that you visit YouTube? There are tons of videos there about how to perform medical procedures. I'm sure you can view at least one about how to appropriately insert a urinary catheter.

I have a mild curiosity of catherization but nor really acted on it. I must say that the TV commercials advertising the latest catherization products has piqued my curiosity a bit more. WIth names like Pocket Cath, etc., they are making it more appealing and the advertisement makes it appear to be getting easier to do by yourself. My only experience with any urethral insertion on my own has been a E-stim electrode that inserted about 1 inch into the penis. I don't really get much pleasure from that electrode for some reason.

I asked my wife to catheterize me because I was curious what it feels like. She's an RN, and I figured she'd know how to do it without it hurting too much. She told me it would be a piece of cake, and that wasn't far from the truth. It burned slightly for just a couple seconds when she first stuck it in. She said the worst part for men is when the catheter passes the sensitive area under the glans. After she advanced it about 5", I could barely feel it. Not bad at all really. But the experience could be altogether different if I ever have to get it done in the hospital by a nurse who doesn't know what she's doing.

I had wanted to try it for a while, then while in labor my wife was cath'd, after the nurse left I retrieved the cath. Later they did it again so now I had 2. But when she went for the c section they used a foley, when they took it out I was able to retrieve it. Once home I cleaned them in boiling water. The regular cath was not very large, but when I got to the foley WOW I felt it stretching me, I wanted to stop but couldn't. Now after 2 more kids I have several.

Rign14 said:-

I had wanted to try it for a while, then while in labor my wife was cath'd, after the nurse left I retrieved the cath. Later they did it again so now I had 2. But when she went for the c section they used a foley, when they took it out I was able to retrieve it. Once home I cleaned them in boiling water. The reg cath was not very large, but when I got to the foley WOW I felt it stretching me, I wanted to stop but couldn't. Now after 2 more kids I have several.

I don't think that I shall ever understand the lengths that some will go to in the acquisition of various devices. If folk aren't making things up out of bits and pieces in the shed they're stealing from the doctors office or, as in this case, purloining used equipment that has been lying around in a trash bin or some such location.

And now you're going to put it down your penis and into the bladder! Yay!

So you boiled them - and then what did you do with them - Put them away for a while. You've had two more kids and now have more catheters, so I guess those first 3 have now been hanging around for a minimum 3 years - still 'sterile'? Still not perished?

Really Rign14 - you've spent more on boiling the water than it would have cost you to buy a whole bunch of catheters at a dollar each.

Why not do what others have done? - take the air tubing out of the fish tank and use that - oh, btw - do wash it won't you!

Snarky BigK, very snarky. A karmic bump for you my friend for making me laugh 174 > 175. Isn't the fish tank water sterile enough? Geeze, and all these years of nursing to think I have been using sterile cath kits at the tax payers expense. Silly me. Bad Nurse Mashie, bad. Someone needs to give me a nice hard stern spanking for being such an idiot. Any volenteers?

Mashie

If you don't "play with your penis" while the catheter is in place,then you will have little or no burning later when peeing.A lot of the stinging is self induced through irritation that wouldn't have happened if "you had left yourself alone" lol

I would love to try this but I probably would hurt myself so probably not a good idea

LOL Mashie. You have a volunteer (and a very strict one at that)

Choose

your implement - one or more of hairbrush, paddle, cane, belt, strap or bare hands

and your position - Over the knee, bending over - hands touching knees or toes, bending over chair/table/sofa, lying face down on the bed or diaper position

Since we are not in the same area, lets keep a rain-check till such time we can meet up 😃

I just wanna know if mashie will put a foley in me 😃

Its definitely not much fun. The burning and stinging pain is quite intense. the only time I had one I had them take it out a few hours later. It was a Friday night and I did not want to be stuck with it all weekend. And besides I could always go back to the ER if I needed it later.

I had it done 5 times for kidney surgery and failure problems. It was the most painful thing i ever felt

I've been cathed a number of times. It's not enjoyable to me, at all! The actual insertion isn't too horrible, but the ever-present bladder spasms when the catheter is in place really get to me. If I have to be cathed, I ask for Pyridium, which acts as a mild analgesic to the urinary tract. As for self-insertion, I don't think it's a good idea, unless you really know what you're doing. UTI's are no joke.

I have been cathed many times for pleasure - always with a new catheter taken directly from its sterilised packaging - so never had an infection problem. The most pleasurable bit is when the cath enters the bladder - i find that very erotic. being forced to ejaculate whilst cathed is fantastic as you really get a massive build up before release.

I think it depends a bit on the person. It can sting/burn a bit going in, coming out, and when you pee afterwards. If you're just starting out you might try a smaller catheter size. If you can find them, I've had good luck with 8fr. It might be a good idea to get someone who knows what they're doing to show you, but if you do choose to do it yourself, be careful. Research what you're doing, order sterile supplies (it's not worth a UTI and catheter kits and sterile gloves aren't terribly expensive), if you decide to do a foley catheter, don't inflate the baloon until you're sure it's in your bladder (get urine return, and then insert it further.) Catheters can be a lot of fun, so good luck whatever you decide!

I had one in for 8 days it was uncomfortable,i dont remember it going in, but it wasnt to pleasant when it was pulled out

For a first time experience, a 8FR may not be the way to go. The smaller cath diameter has much more of a flexing, and in an average size adult male urethra might prove difficult to insert as the walls of the urethra aren't pressing as much on the sides of the cath. The tip of a 8FR is also more pointed and can cause additional problems, especially for a first timer. Watch some of the cath videos for technique, or best yet, play with someone that knows what they're doing.

There are some of us who do intermittent self caths I do it usually twice a day. I use 14fr disposable caths which are sealed when I get them. I rinse and reuse them with no ill effects. There really is no pain even if the14 doesn't get in.I have discovered a one use cath that comes in a sterile liquid which I can always get in.

I have experimented with the cath for self stim and it's like kissing your sister.

I did manage to find 24 fr foley which is on the end of my enema kit,don't inflate very often asit only has a10cc ballon. That's long as short colon tube. I having a hard time to find real colon tube that I can get in Canada. Until then I'll happily get the foley way up there