Who Removed Catheter

[KMeister]

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 go back to the doctor's office the next day to have the catheter removed--and not a minute too soon, either That thing hurt like hell. My wife sat next to me and read the 23rd Psalm to me aloud while it was being removed.

KMeister

[roninhouston]

I was operated on Friday, spent the night in the hospital. The night with the catheter was not a good night, when I felt pain I did Kegels to help. Plus they also had to change my meds two or three times before I felt comfortable. Saturday morning Dr. Cornell inspected my IPP, deflated and inflated it. Then he told me to take a deep breath and removed the catheter. No problems.

IMHO I would spend the night in the hospital. I had to have my meds changed several times to relieve the pain. All I had to do was push the button and the nurse would get me the meds I needed. Since I had an IV in they could inject the meds so they would get immediately in my system. I cannot imagine from a hotel having to get the doctor on the phone to call in meds to a pharmacy for me to pickup them up in the middle of the night, multiple times.

[ShopMan]

Mine was removed the day of surgery just before I went home by a gorgeous young nurse. If there was any pain I didn't notice. lol
Seriously, no problem. They slide right out as others have said.