[ddunkle8]

I am considering TURP, PVP Green Light laser surgery, and perhaps TUNA or TUMT. In any of the cases, if you end up with a foley catheter, don't they make you pee to prove that you can before they let you keep the catheter out? How exactly does that work? If the catheter is in, there is nothing accumulating in your bladder, right? So, then they take it out. What happens then? I can imaging them telling you to drink water and wait an hour, and I can also imagine them somehow using the catheter to fill your bladder and see if you can go, and how measure how much. Or maybe a flow test?

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[mrcoyote]

After a TURP surgery, and while you are still asleep, they put a fairly large catheter in. This is done
to let the surgery heal and also allow any "debris" to be flushed out in the next week or so. After about a week (it was exactly one week for me) they call you into the office and do a follow-up check on things to be sure everything is going well. A "voiding trial", as it is called, will help them determine how you are doing. If everything is good, they take the catheter out and you are free to go home. It's NOT painful and not scary at all. Believe me, you will be so happy you can pee freely, you won't care! At least I was.
You may encounter some "soreness" for a while when you pee from having the catheter in for a while. It's normal. It goes away.

[ddunkle8]

How does the voiding trial work exactly? I can't understand how, in the doctor's office with the catheter still in, they could ask you to go. Those catheters are too big to let you with them in. And are the nurses and doctors just waiting outside while you go? How would your bladder get full if the catheter is in.

[mrcoyote]

As I remember it, after a week of having the catheter in, they call you in for the trial and in a room, with a nurse doing it all, they use one of the tubes on the catheter to "inject" a measured amount of liquid down through the catheter and into your bladder (so they know how much exactly they put in).
Then they remove the catheter and see if you need to urinate right away. I think that's part of the test.
I did, and they let me leave without the catheter anymore. They can also "ultrasound" your bladder AFTER you urinate to see if you are voiding completely or what's left in the bladder. I think that's pretty close to how it went. Nothing scary or painful. A bit weird when they take the catheter out for the first time, but no "painful". Just weird. Believe me, at that point, you don't even care. :-)