Beanie - your doctor uses catheters on lap band patients? Thankfully, I didn't have one. My doc only uses them on his bypass patients (not sure about the sleeve patients).

mrsinto, most docs at least do an in and out cath during surgery. The anesthesiologist needs to know your output during the surgery and make sure your kidneys are continuing to make urine. So even if you didn't wake up with a foley catheter still attached, they probably in and out cathed you during the procedure....

Lovely..... I had no idea. I'll ask him when I have my next appointment.....just out of curiosity. I had kidney surgery years ago, and know catheters all too well. Never occurred to me that they would use one during surgery. Then again, other then what they tell me going in, I have know idea what happens when "the lights go out" :-)

Let me know what he says! I would love to be wrong about it......the office PA said she would place mine since I work in the hospital and know a lot of the nurses who work in the OR. would hate to have a male co-worker place my foley. yuck

I will.... I have to schedule a follow up appointment with him soon. I was supposed to go on 6/28, but they cancelled the appt.....he's going out of town.

What do you do at the hospital?