But my assumption is that those warnings are there to stop people from yanking on them. But it worked! I’ve seen some on-line warnings against pulling on your catheter, so I was a little surprised when I was told to try it. I gotta tell you, that was a weird thing to do. He said just to gently pull the tube so that I could raise the position of the balloon and tip of the catheter in my bladder so it wasn’t sitting on the bottom. He said the catheter was probably sitting low in my bladder and that I could just pull it up.
I called the nurse at Urology and asked about this. But later I started to feel an different kind of catheter pain – a bit sharper and lower down. Anyway, he said (and this is true) that feeling would diminish over time. I don’t really agree that it felt like being tickled, although that would be one way to torture me. The catheter is tickling the inside of my bladder. So what do you do about that urge-pain? So what can you do? Your bladder pumps out your pee through the catheter. Your new reality is that you don’t go to the bathroom in the same way anymore. In my case, the catheter pain felt mostly like an urge to pee, which is fairly unpleasant, especially since you cannot just relieve it by going to the bathroom. Now as you can imagine, having something the size of a golf ball with a little straw-like tube sticking out of it (that’s where the urine goes in) sitting in your bladder is going to feel odd to some degree, and occasionally cause some pain. It is a Foley catheter, which means that it is held in place by a balloon inflated with saline inside my bladder. My catheter is of the suprapubic type of indwelling cath. However, depending on the type of catheter you had installed (a urethral or a suprapubic catheter), you may still experience some catheter pain, especially in the case of an indwelling catheter that is expected to stay in your bladder for awhile – usually from a few days all the way up to forever. But after you’ve survived urinary catheter insertion, at least for most people, the worst is over. Catheter pain is is probably greatest when the thing is being put in, and sometimes when it’s being taken out.
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