IF YOU USED DR FOOTE DID WERE YOU CATH

If you had Dr Foote were you cath for your surgery and if so how long was it before they took it out..also did you have a tube in your nose??

Yeah..I was cathed--I think it's noraml operating procedure. They put it in in the OR (I was unconscious) I got it out the next day. Didn't hurt at all...and I was nervous becuase I've been cathed before and felt pain--especially when I peed but I didn't feel a thing with this one.  By tube do you mean a breathing tube or oxygen? But actually I got both.... when you have your pre-op app't you will meet with the dietician, exercise physiologist and a PA. The PA will go over everything that will happen to you pre/post surgery as well as what happens during surgery...he will answer these type of questions and give you more information than you ever wanted to know!! 

YES I WAS CATHED WHILE I WAS OUT BEFORE SURGERY. IT WAS TAKEN OUT WHEN I WAS ABLE TO GET UP AND WALK ON MY OWN. NO NOSE TUBE...BUT I WAS ON OXYGEN FOR OVER NIGHT AND PART OF THE NEXT DAY. NO BIG DEAL AT ALL.

HUGS

 

Yes Ma'am.. like they said, youare already out when it is done.  I was extremely nervous because I was on my period, and I had nothing worry about.  It was taken out the next morning and no pain at all.  Too me it felt like I went on a rollercoster and I lost my stomach if you know what I mean.  You do have a breating tube in your throat, but they take that out in recovery before you are even awake.  I only knew I had one, becuase I had a slight scratchy throat.  Yes we had oxygen, but I was not on that very long.  I wanted my c-pap on me instead.  You have nothing to worry about.  Dr Foote is wonderful after surgery visiting everyday you are there asking you how you are doing.  I love that man!!!

I just came home from my sleeve procedure and did not have a catheter in when I was in surgery or after.

And no tube in my nose.  Dr Foote is awesome.

Yes, I had a catheter. Please don't worry about that. I don't remember  a tube in my throat but I am sure I did. I actually had surgery on Tuesday at 4:30 and was heading home to Traverse City on Wednesday at 2:30. I wasn't there very long at all.

 

Lynn

Yes that is all standard procedures with surgery is having a cathather placed in your bladder you are asleep when they put it in and it was removed the next day. It was not bad at all I would rather have the cath in then having to get up and go to the bathroom with addominal surgery.   Good luck with your procedure Tricia

The tube in your nose (nasalgastric tube) and the Foley Catheter are both standard from all surgeries from what I understand.  I also have heard that the Jackson Pratt or JP drain  tube was not just unique to me, that everyone has one.  For me they were all placed in me while I was knocked out I don't remember any going in.  Coming out they were all a piece of cake.  Well not literally haha Oh and it might differ from doctor to doctor but my Nasalgastric tube was taken out 24 hours after surgery the Foley Catheter was taken out later on that evening.  My JP drain tube was taken out just before I left for the hospital (even though I know some people have gone home with them in) EDIT:  There are pictures of me from the hospital in my profile and you can see my sexy nassalgastric tube haha

My catheter was taken out soon after I was done with surgery.  The tube down the throat was taken out before I was fully awake and I was put on oxygen coming through the nasal tube (fit just inside the nose) for a while until my room air was normal on the machine.  I did not have a JP tube because my surgery was laproscopic.  It's my understanding that Dr. Foote will do it lap unless he absolutely has to do the open.