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Question about catheter leakage, wonder if anyone ever heard of. I know this is gross. Had this catheter in now 10 full days and there has been some leakage around tube that goes in penis. This only started last couple days. But the leakage had been minor and I just fold up a couple pieces of toilet paper and it doesn’t get very wet, just small spot, I thought no big deal. Then today I got some more leakage where I could actually see urine running out, small little stream. But it only happen when sitting on stool and penis is down lower than normal. Doesn’t happen when everything pulled up with shorts on. Showed wife tonight sit on toilet seat and nothing happen, she thought I was crazy and I thought I guess it stopped. But then all of a sudden a little stream came out around the tube from penis. I guess it was time for some draining and it took path of lease resident? Wasn’t straining or pushing. No kinks in drain or anything . Anyway, pull up shorts and then got everything higher and no little streams. Didn’t start until today. The only difference is tube more of uphill when it’s hanging down and only small uphill when pulled up with shorts. But still that didn’t matter until today and a little yesterday. I sure seem to be having a difficult, but then I don’t know anyone who went through this. Maybe this normal?

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@diverjer
I have heard other people complain about this problem. They have different size tubes they can put in for the catheter and I guess the one you have is a little bit too small.

I had a catheter for 14 days and had no problems at all with leakage.

@diverjer
My husband had this problem after about a week with catheter. We went to the ER late evening and waited till 3 am to be seen. The duty doctor told us the catheter had somewhat dislodged but pulling it out and fixing it in would be painful. Since we had just 2 more days to go with the catheter, he told us to just watch for infection or puss, but otherwise should be ok. However he did try to put it in place by gentle manoeuvre and that helped somewhat.