Painful urination and low urine output
in Women's Health ·
Laura Jackson56 said:but honestly, that whole stinging sensation near my urethra was driving me absolutely crazy for months.
did they end up putting a catheter in you?
they did mine.
it seems like pretty much everyone getting an epidural gets one, so I figured that was probably why I was dealing with all that.
ugh, yeah. just eat some cranberries and drink cranberry juice.
it’s totally possible that it’s actually some kind of infection caused by the catheter.
Those catheters are seriously the worst. After I gave birth, it burned like crazy whenever I went to the bathroom. Now, like 4 or 5 months later, the burning is gone, but the opening of my urethra looks red (whenever I check with a mirror). I lowkey freaked out when I first saw it, but my OBGYN didn't say anything, and then I totally forgot to ask. I’m guessing it’s from the catheter since they had to pop one in at least five different times while I was in labor for 18 hours.
Did you deal with stuff like that too?