Hi! I had my pre surgery class today and found out that I will have a catheter in for 12-24 hours after surgery. Any word on how uncomfortable it was coming out? I've had a stent in my ureter (kidney stone surgery) and had that removed while awake, just wondering if it feels like a pipe cleaner coming out lol

I had the exact opposite of some of you - when I had my catheter removed (this was for an appendectomy) I couldn't control my pee! I had about a three second warning and ended up peeing all over my hospital bed several times. The nurses loved that. It was this way for about two days.

Ouch.

Well I'm having the same as when I didn't have a catheter....trouble peeing which tells me it's possible with or without.

But I do realize trouble holding it would be worse.

Never had a UTI in my life.. Had three after having a catheter with my gallbladder surgery. GRRRRR.. Anyway as for the actual catheter feeling... I was already sleeping when they put it in and I didn't feel a thing when it came out. When I woke up in recovery the first words out of my mouth were "GET THIS THING OUT OF THERE" and I wouldn't let up until the nurse removed it..Maybe I didn't feel it coming out because I was SOOOO caught up on the idea of being utterly disturbed that I had it in the first place. I only had it for a couple of hours but that was MORE than enough for me.