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Hi everyone! i'm new here. I started my sleeve journey in January though Balboa San Diego. June I will have finished my 6 month diet plan and I've already finished all of the required "phase 1" things. I'm so excited! I should meet with my surgeon the first part of May and get scheduled from there.

I do have a silly question, do they put in a catheter before you are sedated? I just know that was a HORRIBLE experience for me when I was having my C-section. That an anesthesia make me a bit nervous. But mostly I'm super excited.

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Not everyone gets a catheter. I did not. Did they say you would have one?

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Doctors are all different. His office will know. Good luck on your surgery.

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My Dr did not do a catheter either. He said the surgery was so short it was not needed. I was all prepared to argue against having one and was nicely surprised by his answer.

Like everyone likes to point out though- Every Dr is different. Best of luck to you :D

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Hi my doctor puts it in after they have sedated you in the operating room, congrats on making the choice to be healthy.

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I had a catheder, but it was put in after I was sedated and taken out the next morning before i was discharged. I sooooooo did not want one, but it did not bother me at all and saved me from having to get up in the middle of the night.

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I was asking my doc a bunch of questions I had written down and he jumped in the middle of it and said "And I won't do a catheter"... that wasn't even on my list! :)

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I didn't have one either. My doctor said there was no need.

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