Do you get a catheter during surgery?

[LundyLane 0]

I've had surgery before that doesn't scare me - BUT - I hate catheters :wub: and know that sometimes with short surgeries you don't get them.

Do you have to have one with lap band surgery?????

[Angie4b1g 1]

Not that I know of - unless they put it in and out while I was knocked out.

[Wheetsin 714]

I did not.

[bullpen87 2]

My doc normally uses catheter on his patients but I requested if I could not have one. I have interstitial cystitis (painful urinary and bladder disorder) and he said that we could do it without it. I was so thankful! It would have caused me alot of pain. Good luck to you!

[suecasb 0]

I did but would not have known it if I had not been told. It was put in after I was asleep and taken out before I woke up.

[jnbwilds 0]

My doc didn't - since the surgery was so short - but they did make me pee before I went into the OR! I'd ask to have them leave out that step.