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Tulsa Pro Experience, Mayo Clinic MN – July 2024
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Strange that you had sensations of a need to urinate when you have a catheter in. With a catheter, you don’t need to urinate. It’s constantly emptying your bladder, I sure don’t remember feeling any urge to pee with a catheter in.
Can you do this after the catheter was removed?
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Lucky you! 🙂 The differences I suppose between our bodies. From what I have read, this is a common event with Foley placement and some will have it and some will not. I had a full gland ablation, so I expect there is the possibility the bladder neck/urinary sphincter region is irritated, if not possibly injured a bit from the procedure.
The urethra of course is slightly injured from the 'sunburn' it gets from the ultrasound waves, if there are two sweeps performed the injury is greater as well as a greater potential for strictures. Most of my ablation was done in one sweep, there were two small sections were the doctor decided to do a second sweep. Approximately 2 percent of TULSA patients have some level of stricture and I am hoping I am in the 98 percent group of those who do not. 🙂
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I had the same urge during the first 24 hours. That was the most uncomfortable time with the catheter for me.