relentless urination

[milktea]

just got my catheter pulled this morning. good news is i can pee, bad news is i am peeing like 10 times an hour...and almost always feel like bursting...

anyone with similar experience care to share?

[AusBelle]

Yep, that happens.  It's almost like a bladder infection sometimes. 

[milktea]

R U sure?

[Zumbagirl]

just got my catheter pulled this morning. good news is i can pee, bad news is i am peeing like 10 times an hour...and almost always feel like bursting...

anyone with similar experience care to share?

I wish I could say I was that lucky but my situation was the complete opposite. I couldn't pee for a while and felt like my bottom was a balloon and going to explode. I was crying because i needed to empty out. I was overjoyed the day I would be able to pee like a normal human being again

[blueconstancy]

If you're peeing a reasonable amount each time, that's good - just means you're well hydrated.

Even if not, urethra pain and bladder irritation are *really* common right after a catheter comes out. It might be worth worrying about 24 hours or more later, but the catheter has been in there scraping things up and generally irritating everything for a few days, and that takes a little while to heal. My wife had excruciating bladder spasms from the catheter; harmless, normal, but incredibly painful every time she had to pee. She still says that hurt more than the actual surgery pain.

And as Zumbagirl says, it beats not being able to pee at all because of swelling. I saw one woman have to have the catheter put back IN for another week because of that. (She had to go home with it, and have her regular doctor deal with removing it.)

[mm]

As long as it doesn't hurt to pee you should be fine, all the muscles have to get back to normal down.  If it hurt and you only go a little bit at a time that can easily be an infection which is common with and after catheters are pulled. Females have a shorter urethra and with the opening being surrounded by the labia which can hold a drop of urine infections are much more common in females.  UTI are part of being female.

[Rita]

I was on an IV once, long before hormones and t-blockers and any long ideas of surgery.

Oh My God!  I peed every 10 minutes as well, by morning I felt more sick than I did going in because after a while it  becomes achy.

Think it just happens to some people after being on iv or given too much hydration period.

[milktea]

R U sure?

Come' on that was pretty funny.

Anyways things slowly getting back to normal. Guess it is the irritation.

[Tristan]

i had to have my cath put back in. but after a few days of having it out you will feel better

[aibeecee]

I had to pee more frequently for the first 4 months after SRS. But I also had an UTI after SRS which was caused by the longer catheterization.

The catheter(s) really was the worst of all...

[starbright]

^Who was your surgeon?! Just curious who you had your SRS with. Thanks

[aibeecee]

^Who was your surgeon?! Just curious who you had your SRS with. Thanks

I had SRS in Germany with the team of Prof Dr Krege.
She has done +500 SRS surgeries herself but those things which happened to me happen to other patients as well.