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After HoLEP: what happens on day one?
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On the day of the surgery, you leave the operating theatre with a urinary catheter. It's uncomfortable, uhm, at first, but it is necessary. You'll get out of bed after a few hours or the following morning.
We operate in the afternoon and our patients have the catheter in overnight. At first, they don't have any pain because the spinal anaesthesia has an effect that removes the pain. Then the anaesthesia wears off from the feet up to the pelvis, so for the first four, five, or six hours, there's practically no pain.
The night passes and the catheter is removed in the morning. The moment the catheter is removed can be a bit uncomfortable, mainly because we always flush the, the bladder a little with a syringe to remove any clots that might remain and prevent them from making it difficult for you to urinate properly later.