Men Everywhere

[Trekker4747]

Ever had a catheter? Ugh. I'd never had one until the surgery I had a couple months ago and during my time in the ICU post-op when I couldn't pee on my own. And, to say the least, it getting put in... isn't comfortable. It getting pulled out is a bit more comfortable but still uncomfortable and hurts like a bandaid being pulled off inside your urethra.

Anyway, I'm watching a rerun of House and in this episode he inserts hos own catheter and just the thought of him inserting the thing just makes me wince and cringe just by "knowing" what it feels like. :shudder:

Catheters suck. It's painful just me thinking about it.

 

[think]

It's the opium based drug effects that closes off the bottom half of the body, you know, you can't shit either from that stuff although I have never had to do the poop catheter thingy I hear that the addicts who are so caught up in the heroin thing that they reach inside their butts and pull the shit out ,, go figure. LOL

 

[MANT!]

Had uric acid kidney stones some years ago (very painful) and at one point they put a small camera up there to look at my bladder..There was some pain at the initial entry then simple discomfort until the doctor told me that "You'll feel some pressure as I pass the prostate.." As he passed the prostate..I levitated off the table screaming in pain...

Pressure is a word that's overused in the medical community...

I'd much rather they give me a bullet to bite...and say "Brace yourself..this will hurt like a sonofabitch"....

 

[scotpens]

I hear that the addicts who are so caught up in the heroin thing that they reach inside their butts and pull the shit out ,, go figure. LOL

That's what they should tell teenagers in school when they warn them about drugs!

 

[sojourner]

^Also, women giving birth often poo while pushing.

 

[scotpens]

^Also, women giving birth often poo while pushing.

Did I really need to know that?

Actually, the title of this thread made me think the topic would be more along these lines:

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBlbPw7WAqM[/yt]

 

[Tiberius Jim]

Yeah, I totally anticipated this thread being about a dream he had. For once, coming across talk about male catheters came as a relief.

 

[LitmusDragon]

I was reminded of this

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hw3TiwyBDs[/yt]

 

[RJDiogenes]

I've had worse than a catheter. With my first kidney stone, they removed it using the Roto Rooter method. Which, as agonizing as it was, wasn't as bad as the kidney stone itself.

Luckily, with every subsequent stone, I've had a lithotripsy, which is really a piece of cake. I even dozed off during the last one.

 

[Shatnertage]

Anyone else involuntarily pull their legs together while reading this thread?

 

[F. King Daniel]

^Me. I also grit my teeth and frowned.

 

[JarodRussell]

Ever had a catheter? Ugh. I'd never had one until the surgery I had a couple months ago and during my time in the ICU post-op when I couldn't pee on my own. And, to say the least, it getting put in... isn't comfortable. It getting pulled out is a bit more comfortable but still uncomfortable and hurts like a bandaid being pulled off inside your urethra.

Anyway, I'm watching a rerun of House and in this episode he inserts hos own catheter and just the thought of him inserting the thing just makes me wince and cringe just by "knowing" what it feels like. :shudder:

Catheters suck. It's painful just me thinking about it.

Wasn't that the episode in which he couldn't pee for three days and was under horrible pain because of that? I think under that circumstance, a catheter was a major relief.

^Also, women giving birth often poo while pushing.

Some - which I will never understand - claim to have given birth without knowing while they were pooping.

 

[Trekker4747]

Ever had a catheter? Ugh. I'd never had one until the surgery I had a couple months ago and during my time in the ICU post-op when I couldn't pee on my own. And, to say the least, it getting put in... isn't comfortable. It getting pulled out is a bit more comfortable but still uncomfortable and hurts like a bandaid being pulled off inside your urethra.

Anyway, I'm watching a rerun of House and in this episode he inserts hos own catheter and just the thought of him inserting the thing just makes me wince and cringe just by "knowing" what it feels like. :shudder:

Catheters suck. It's painful just me thinking about it.

Wasn't that the episode in which he couldn't pee for three days and was under horrible pain because of that? I think under that circumstance, a catheter was a major relief.

Yeah, it was.

But I hadn't peed for a few hours when I woke up in the ICU and felt like my bladder was going to explode, hurt really-really bad, but I couldn't "go." They wouldn't let me get up and use the toilet, or give me privacy so I was all nervous and couldn't get it to happen. (I have a shy bladder.) And while the catheter was a relief it still didn't feel very good going in and it certainly didn't feel good coming out.

Nurse: "One... two... three..."YANK

Afterwards, among my pangs of terror he tells me, "Trust me, that's the way you wanted me to do that."

 

[TheBrew]

I had a catheter once, but I was out when they inserted it. When I woke, I was like "What the hell did you do to my penis!?"

 

[Emher]

Yeah I had a similar experience when I was in the hospital for a few weeks when I was 11. Couldn't pee and it hurt like fucking hell. Then when they tried getting a catheter in, they had to try a few different ones because apparantly they didn't get the right size right away. And of course they had to ram it a bit in before realising that it was wrong.

So yeah I have a healthy fear of hospitals still.

 

[melancholymecha]

oh God cant they give you an anesthetic or something ?!?
btw I might have to have an endoscopy done soon(tube inserted through the throat) & Im freaking out about it! Anyone ever had one of those done?

 

[Mary Ann]

^Also, women giving birth often poo while pushing.

Some - which I will never understand - claim to have given birth without knowing while they were pooping.

For some women labour can feel like severe intestinal cramping, and with the baby's head pushing in the intestines there's a strong desire to pass a bowel movement (trust me). Good times.

 

[Emher]

oh God cant they give you an anesthetic or something ?!?
btw I might have to have an endoscopy done soon(tube inserted through the throat) & Im freaking out about it! Anyone ever had one of those done?

Pretty sure that they can't because that doesn't solve the problem, it just does the same thing other narcotics do and seize up your lower body.

And yeah I had a tube down my thorat trough my nose put in during the same stay before surgery when I was still awake (for some ungodly reason) and then removed at like ten in the morning after the surgery. One of the most disgusting and terrifying things I've been trough.

So, you know, good luck.

 

[bluedana]

Having a catheter is no picnic for women, either. Yeah, the medical profession needs to retire the euphemism "pressure," along with its evil cousin, "pinch."

Nasogastric (NG) tubes are also of the devil. I had one in for ten days. When I talked, I sounded just like Mary McDonnell, all nasally up in my nasal.

 

[Holdfast]

This thread gives me the lulz.

Not sure if I've told this story on here before, but my very first job as a freshly qualified doctor straight out of medschool was in urology. No particular reason for doing it and certainly not a speciality I had any real interest in, but we all needed to do a medical rotation and a surgical rotation before choosing our final speciality and I just happened to start on a 3-month urology stint.

Anyway, back to day one of the job. Starts off easy; a few bloods, a few charts, some pre-op admitting, that sort of thing. In the afternoon, a nurse comes up to me and tells me a catheter needs doing. Um, yeah, so now's probably the time to 'fess up... I never actually did one in medical school; somehow I always managed to avoid it.

The nurse chuckled and pointed out that now's the time to learn, to get on with it since the guy needs one, and no, she wasn't going to do it for me. "Don't worry, he's more worried about it than you are". True enough. So anyway, I get a trolley together with what I need and go along to the cubicle to get working.

Things start of pretty easily, getting everything laid out right and then the moment comes to insert the catheter. First time no dice, but second time round, there's relief. Mine as well as his, to be honest. Though his is, well, of a rather more visible nature as the urine starts flowing freely.

Wow, that guy's bladder must have been pretty full.

And now the kidney bowl that the catheter's temporarily draining into is getting full.

Better hook up the collection bag to the catheter end.

Ah.

Problem.

Forgot a bag.

Waterfall time.





That's one mistake I never made again. And don't worry, by the end of that first day I think I did, like, 5 catheters so got pretty good at them after that.