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I will be having my implant March 2nd and told I could remove the catheter the next morning at the hotel. Can anyone inform me as to what they did? If you stayed at hotel first night did you remove and was it difficult? If I decide to stay at hospital first night, the staff will remove the next morning. I'd prefer to go to hotel but not sure about taking catheter out myself.

I had to keep it in from Friday until Monday. The catheter I had is the slimmest made. It just slipped out like it was greased. No pain, no tugging. You just need to be sure you've fully deflated the balloon that holds it in.

I had mine in for five days - removed it myself - piece of cake.
Good luck with the surgery!
Rick

Took mine out the next morning at home. I was apprehensive, but it was very easy to do.

They removed mine the same day as the surgery and sent me home. I had no problems.

Morning after surgery after overnight in hospital. nurse removed and when i was able to pee (and comfortably) I was released. Out around noon...surgery was 7 am previous morning.

Very easy to do. They will tell you how. Mine was painless.

Glad everybody else's went ok mine stung like hell when being pulled out, I even shit myself a a tiny bit

Catheter has 2 ends . one at an angle and the other straight that goes to the bag. Easiest way is to hold the hose over the sink, jar, can, stool, tub , whatever, as it will have saline in it. That is what fills the balloon that keeps the catheter in place. Whack that angled hose off with a scissors. That lets the fluid in the bulb deflate. You can also suck it out with a syringe if they give you one. Fluid comes out of it so that is why you can make a mess and likely a little pee. It is not much. Maybe 20 cc's saline at most, then you pull the catheter out. Not hard, doesn't hurt, often barely feel it though mine after the implant must have been made of ground glass and barbed wire. It hurt like a bitch coming out. If they lubed it properly and did not scratch your urethra putting it in, it most likely will not hurt. Sometimes the doc scopes your bladder and such before surgery and they can scratch you urethra when they do that. Any rate it is over in a minute. Then you sing hallelujah and thank baby jesus it's over. Before long you will be doing your own surgery it seems so simple.

This might help. The catheter in the bottom of the first picture is likely what yours will look like. The bulb on the end is what you deflate when you cut off the angled hose on the other end.
https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=h ... mp=yhs-001