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I crashed a boat several years back, really bad shape in the ER, this phag nurse comes walking in and tells me he's fixing to insert a catheter. I told him there was no way he was touching my dick, and if was the last thing I did he would get his ass kicked. Few minutes later some nice little nurse came in and did it.

In my experience, insertion & removal was painless. The first 3 -4 pisses after its removal is what stings.

Regarding the references to FloMax, that drug did nothing for me.

Am now taking Tamsulosin daily along with 5mg of Cialis every other day. Works pretty good. 5mg of Cialis is a daily dose, but I tried Cialis daily for a week and was left with a boner that would not go away - truly painful - so I switched to every other day.

Was asleep on the operating table when they put one in,having it removed was.....unpleasant,trying to pee afterwards....not fun at all.But,by the next day i was ok.

Steve,

Good to see you posting again. I sure wish you would write a book or put out a collection of all your articles that you have written.

I hope you heal fast and get back to the range soon.

Oldquailhunter

Had one when I was in a coma for a week.

Don’t remember nuthin…

Yes , that's all I got to say about that..

Good to hear you again

Yes, pissing thru a tiny tube.

renegade50;
Good evening to you sir, I hope life down in your section of the south is going at least more than less well for you and yours.

Since you've sort of laid down a wee gauntlet, I'll attempt to articulate a tale that should at least make a showing in the category so to speak.

When I was 15 I was working underneath my 4 year old car - the irony of being able to afford a 4 year old car before one has a driver's license not being lost on me at all - when it fell on me. It was my fault as I'd not properly blocked it up.

The event came very close to having me cross over, in fact the best medical minds in the regional hospital called in my family to watch me die.

In no particular order, I'd smashed the back of my head - when the car hit it - the front of my face when it hit my knee or the concrete. Most of my internal organs were crushed, most of the ribs were bruised and/or cracked, the muscles back of my knees, the groin muscles and stomach muscles were torn and the 11th and 12th vertebrae were crushed. As a result of all that, my body went into some sort of shock where the white blood cells attack the red ones. I believe I have that right.

So since they thought I was presently going to be leaving, they gave me enough Demerol to stagger a Shetland on a regular enough basis I developed a bit of a medical fondness for that. My eldest sister who is an RN, said she'd never seen anyone my weight get that much Demerol that often.

I was in a Stryker Frame which I'd encourage the gentle reader to look up to see what it is, but more or less it's like a rotating ironing board where you look up, then the nursing staff come in, pull a pin and flip you and you look down. One memorable night the night nurse forgot I was attached to a catheter and gave me a quick spin, whereupon I was suddenly very wide awake when the bag and line stopped the progress.

That however good sir, isn't the story....

On a different and later night, when it appeared that I wasn't going to pack it in as quickly as expected, somehow my body rejected the catheter at about 2:00AM. It showed that rejection by bypassing the catheter, which was both messy and provided considerable discomfort. As it turned out, that was just the beginning of the night's festivities.

My night nurse that evening called in a male orderly who had visited me as often as he could, a young man named Peter - yes there's irony once more - who had gone to medical school on a football scholarship where he was center for the University of Regina team. Look up the Saskatchewan Roughriders and you will see that in one province at least, there is in fact a football culture.

Peter phoned the doctor who was of course was sound asleep and the doctor told him to take the catheter out.

Peter came to me and confided, "I've never done this before, but it you're okay I'll give it a go"...

My response was another spasm, accompanied by a high pressure blast of urine.

Peter did what he thought was the correct procedure - as I understand/understood - it was to deflate this little ball that was holding the catheter in the bladder.

Then he began to extract the tube, but it didn't budge.

Peter then leaned on the Stryker frame with his hip, grabbed the tube with both hands, told me to hang on - so I did - to the Stryker with one hand and to what I was hoping not to lose with the other - and like the wolf in the 3 pigs, Peter pulled with all his might..

After a bit more huffing and puffing on all parties part, out it came, but that deflated ball was not as deflated as it needed to be!!!!

When Peter looked at it, he looked at me with wide eyes and said, "Oh my goodness I am so very sorry Dwayne!"

Anyways renegade, that's the story for contention for 2nd place, presented as well as I recall it from all those years ago.

All the best to you on your hunts this fall renegade.

Dwayne

Geez Dwayne, We're sure glad you stuck around.

Beers on me should we meet.

I had one a couple months ago after my hip surgery. I couldn’t get up to pee so the nurse out a cath in me. Not a pleasant experience

A couple of times due to surgeries. After my back surgery I was in my hospital bed and told not to get out of bed without help. Well by the time the nurse arrived I had to pee so badly but just couldn’t. So she called the lab tech to insert a catheter and I don’t remember it hurting at all. Well after about the third time he was upset with the nurses for not telling me to get to the bathroom the second I felt the urge to urinate. He said if you wait too long that it makes it really hard to pee ironically.

I have had about 6 in my life and believe having them in so many times is why i passed 6 kidney stones with out any pain.

The Doc did the camera thing and i got to see my bladder,prostate and a few other things that can be seen.

Just wished they did not use the garden hose and the large light bar.

The first when taken out was the worst.
,the nurse said that after it is out i would feel like i had to pee but not to worry because no matter how hard i tried nothing would cone out.

I did manage one drop and i felt like i really did something.

If done the right way it is no problem going in or out.

Have had several and liked none. Had the insert with bladder flushes treatments for six weeks series two different times. Can't control urine passing for two days after each session. The doctor wants to do them again but said I have had enough. GW

I had to have one about 15 years ago after my appendix surgery...
My bladder kind of just went to sleep ... well I really don't remember putting it in, but the nurse that took it out, well we grew up together and were in classes all the way through HS together.
Well let's just say I must have done something to piss her off along the way in all of those years bc when she went to pull it out she got this big evil smile on her face and tells me "take a deep breath and exhale"....
She ripped that fkr out like I owed her money....
Never seen her after that, she moved away. I think she enjoyed it waaaayyyy toooooo much....

It was 2009 when I was 62 when I found out I had bladder cancer. Slipped & fell early in the morning while out hunting.
When I went in that afternoon I realized I hadn't pissed all day. Went to the bathroom and with some pushing I unloaded a coagulated blood clot and then a lot of bloody urine. Went to emergency and the next day was at the urologist and got my first scope.
Tumor that looked like cauliflower about the size of a baseball. Its neat when you can watch on a color monitor what your insides look like.
No catheter yet. but another scope job under anesthesia for a resection is scheduled.
No good, too deep in bladder wall, so Neo bladder surgery is scheduled. That surgery was 13 hours and when I woke up I had a foley catheter which was my little friend for the next 6 weeks. I also had the tube in my throat, and IV tube in my neck, and 4 other tubes and drains in my abdomen. A week in the hospital with some awesome pain meds (they can keep the nightmares) before I went home.
The throat tube and IV were removed while at hospital but I travel back to hospital or urologists' office once a week to get the abdomen drains and bladder flush tubes removed. That 1st month we had a home health nurse every other day come in for a check. For 6 months went for a CT scan each month and in the second month a nurse removed the foley catheter and I am sure she didn't get the inflated end deflated.
Well, here comes a urinary track infection in a couple of days and my family doctor gave me a butt full of antibiotic.
Went for a scope every 6 month for 5 years then 1 a year till 10 years.
At least for the scope I got some topical pain killer administered by the nurse of the day. In 10 years only had the same nurse twice. Had to self catheter for a while after mr. foley was removed. When I finished the 1st batch of catheters I stopped doing them
Somebody said getting old is no fun, well neither are scopes and catheters

I've not had a catheter, but I did have a stint for a week or 10 days about a decade ago after I had a kidney stone surgically removed. As bad as the kidney stone pain was, the stint may have been worse. It was completely a miserable experience.

Morphine doesn't work on me - at least it didn't while I was in the hospital, so they gave me Dilaudid, which did work - well.

Yeah, for sure.
But there's only 2 choices.
You either get old or you don't.


Sorry to hear of all that plumbing
mess. I've done the stones removal
done a couple of different ways, so I
can sort of sympathize about
having your plumbing dallied with
although not nearly to the same
degree you have.
Good Luck for the future

I'm of the opinion that my kidney stone was caused by Dr. Pepper. I haven't had but a handful of sodas in a decade.