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Hi,

I have to use a pad everyday for Incontinence when I laugh or cough. What should I do on my surgery date? anyone else have this issue? Thanks

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Some surgeons have their patients put on catheters for the surgery. I'm guessing that if your surgeon has you catheterized, then you would likely not have to worry about the incontinence issue. :) It might be best to bring up the topic with your surgeon.

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I don't know what your surgeon will do, but with mine I was not allowed to drink anything after midnight the night before surgery. They made me try to go the bathroom multiple times the morning of my surgery to make sure I got everything out.

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I'd check with the surgeon. My guess is that they will give you a catheter. You won't be able to pee for a day or two after surgery anyway because of the anesthesia. At least that was my experience.

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Thanks everyone.

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Didmyou know your urologist can prescribe a drug so you don't need pads? It's amazing!!

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I didn't wear any panties into surgery and I woke up with a catheter and I thought I wasn't getting one. Oh the horror! Lol

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Didmyou know your urologist can prescribe a drug so you don't need pads? It's amazing!!

What are the side effects? I was told the medicine can interfere with **ahem** orgasims (sorry for TMI). mine isn't too bad but its getting worse. hopeing it will lessen after surgery but unwilling to give up one of the few good things in my life....lmao

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They catherize you once you are put under. They took mine out a few hours after surgery so I could start walking, then I was able to walk to the bathroom myself. I had to use the bathroom alot...that IV is constant Fluid entering your body. After they remove the catheter you are free to put on your underwear and a pad if you choose to.

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My dr bathed me. My daughters dr didn't cath her n she couldn't pee

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My dr bathed me. My daughters dr didn't cath her n she couldn't pee

i've never had surgery. why did the doctor give you a bath? sorry if its a stupid question. i didn't even know about the cath

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ok. you know its late when I did nt catch that its probably a typo. lol think i'm going to try to sleep now before i make a fool of myself.

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

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