Peeing yourself

[DougAnd]

Anyone had trouble with their catheter? I was sent home with mine. A nurse came to my house and checked it out then removed it the next day. Before then I had a bladder spasm. Peed around my catheter all over everything. Big mess. Wet my nightshirt sheet cover you name it. The next time I was prepared. Had thick towels beneath and plastic under that. Don't know how common this is but just in case.........

[bionicbrother]

Yes catheter is a pain in the ass.. They removed mine the next day before releasing me but it takes time to be able to regularize it

[nerdynerd]

I had a catheter for 3 days after my prostate procedure and had horrible bladder spasms for most of that time. I was caught by surprised the first few times and almost passed out on the throne. Once I knew what was happening I just screamed profanities. Pushed blood out around the catheter lining. The urologist I have in mind for an implant doesn't usually use a catheter, so that's good.

[LMCatman]

First home after RP...no catheter...carefully put on my adult diaper, went to sleep, woke up with piss everywhere. Amazoned all kinds of "supplies". Was out of the diapers in just a few days.....

Good luck man!!!

[DougAnd]

Wow. So I was talking about my IPP surgery. My prostate surgery was a different story. They irrigated me in the hospital for 2 days with what felt like a firehose. Had to have lidocaine cream lathered onto the head of my penis it hurt so badly. Thank goodness that catheter from he!! did not come home with me. Like you guys afterward life has been interesting. Let's just say that I thought after 6 weeks everything was normal. On my way to my doc appointment on the freeway in traffic here it came no way to stop it peed myself good and wreaked of urine during my appt. It happens. No way to change clothes. They kindly did not let on. So now I am more careful. Still at work recently thought I had stopped the urge only to find a trickle was running down my leg. Lucky for me it was end of shift, don't think anyone noticed.

[Waynetho]

Anyone had trouble with their catheter? I was sent home with mine. A nurse came to my house and checked it out then removed it the next day. Before then I had a bladder spasm. Peed around my catheter all over everything. Big mess. Wet my nightshirt sheet cover you name it. The next time I was prepared. Had thick towels beneath and plastic under that. Don't know how common this is but just in case.........

I'm used to catheters since I have used them on occasion "recreationally" (without medical need). For my IPP surgery, they removed my catheter in the hospital the day I was released (24 hrs after surgery), but the nurse did it *MY WAY* because I didn't want her to just draw the saline completely out and rip it out of my sensitive urethra. I advised her to let the pressure naturally flow back into the syringe and then once most of the saline had moved, it was safe to remove the catheter without further aspiration.

Where I did run into issues with a post-procedure catheter was after my UroLift procedure. I recreationally have used 14-fr catheters (1 "French" is a third of a millimeter so 14-fr is basically 4.66 mm diameter). After my UroLift procedure I was catheterized with a 21-fr "yellow latex" catheter. This means the catheter was a full 7 mm diameter about 150% of what I was used to.

Now I'm familiar with the feeling of bladder spasms while catheterized and I was aware that it's possible to "PEE AROUND" the catheter if you do a Kegel contraction (like getting that last squirt out after peeing) while you're feeling the spasm (this is what you were likely experiencing that caused you to leak). I felt an intense bladder spasm, likely in part from the trauma of having four nylon "fishing lines" punched through the prostate from urethra to the outer surface, but also due to the 21-fr catheter which was more than I'd ever experienced before. I went to the toilet to try to relieve the spasm, stood in front of the toilet and did a Kegel, but this time I shot about two tablespoons of very red BLOOD all over the toilet and the wall behind it!!

In my case with the Uro-Lift procedure, the oversized catheter wasn't intended to help me pee, but obviously was meant as a BANDAGE for the inside of my prostate, to give it a chance to stop bleeding. The evening of the procedure I still had some bleeding and the Kegel contraction just expressed the built-up blood from my prostate.