Hi. I am a 20 year old male that had surgery completed about 12 hours ago under general anesthesia. Ever since I have been home it has been difficult, but not painful for me to urinate. I have to sit down and it can take 5 minutes before anything comes out. Is that a cause for concern?
Difficulty Urinating After Surgery?
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It is not uncommon to have some difficulty urinating after surgery, especially if the surgery was more than a couple of hours and even more common when a catheter had been placed in your bladder during the time of the surgery.
Greetings, thanks for your questions, usually when general anesthesia is used and in any surgery of more than 3 hours in length, a tube or urinary catheter is placed in the urinary meatus to collect and measure the urine output during surgery ( I do not know if this is your case), the mere fact of placing the catheter can irritate the urethra produce some urinating difficulty , this feeling usually disappears with the passage of days, antibiotics are useful in the case of urethritis
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