in my hospital it is protocol to get both a levine tube and a catheter for surgery although they stay in less than a day post op......and they are freaking me out already......more than the surgery itself.

did anyone get any of these? i only read about a catheter a couple of times,but never about a levine tube.

my doc said the levine tube is mainly against nausea.......:tongue_smilie:

Edited February 22, 201016 yr by tdriver

No catheter for me (that would have freaked me out too). I don't know what a Levine tube is, but I'm assuming it goes through the skin into the area? I did have a drainage tube in for a week post-op. Most people will tell you that having that tube removed is a weird feeling, but not painful. For me, I felt literally nothing at all... no weirdness, no sensation of it coming out through the hole. I didn't even realize the doc had pulled it out until I saw it in his hand. So don't worry about that part!

And as I said, I personally didn't have a catheter, but I know that lots of people did, and I've never read anyone complaining about any pain with it being removed. Seems like that alone would make you want to pee like mad though LOL!

the levine tube goes from the nose to the stomach,and pulls out the fluids.

I had the catheter and it stayed in for 2 days. When they did remove it I had till the end if the day to pee or it went back in. Believe me, I drank and tried and drank and tried until I peed...LOL!

I had a catheter and when they took it out it was just a slight sensation nothing alarming or painful. After so many hours of me not being able to "pee" on my own 2 nurses put a pan under me in the bed and used something (I couldn't see) to force the urine out of me! That also didn't hurt just felt weird feeling them poking around looking for the spot to insert some tube or what ever they used! Once they found it they were very happy with the results and so was I because I had a bladder full. Hours later a wonderful overnight nurse took me into the bathroom (because I had to go again) and she brought me a warm sort of Water bottle to place on my pelvis while I sat on the toilet bowl. She also ran the sink water slightly and I was able to pee on my own then and there after.

I'm pretty sure the tube you mentioned was used on me decades ago when I had emergency gallbladder surgery back in 1976. I know things have changed alot since then but when they yanked that tube out of my nose although rather quick, it was, to put it mildly, disturbing. I like many others also had a drain in the larger incision and when the surgeon removed it I felt no pain at all. Great questions by the way.

Edited February 22, 201016 yr by LAN2k

I had a catheter, but I don't think I had that tube. The guy in the room next to me had a catheter as well, so I guess they do both male and female.

I've never had one before. I was kinda cool to not have to get up in those first hours post-op. No pain at all.