Which is more painful ----- penile catheterisation or stomach endoscopy?

Question

Why do they say penile catheterisation is not painful when I have seen patients shouting like its hell upon being cathetered?

Perhaps, the doctors were not doing it right?

Answer 1

You meant gastroscopy? It would be more uncomfotable then painful. We insert the tube extremely slowly, according to the gagging reflex of the patient. There is absolutely no point in forcing the tube down.

While in penile catheterisation, although we use gell (which contain some portion of Anasthesia) as lubricant, the fact remains that forcing a cathether into a tube with a diameter less than 5cm will inflict pain either way.

Be thankful that everywhere else in the world, you have rubber or elastic cathethers, because here in Russia, I have seen doctors forcing a metal cathether down on one patient, who was groaning in pain throughout the whole process. And you have to know that physiologically, the penis has a few curvatures (according to the shape of the pubic bone, according to the bladder, etc), so the worst part wasn't inserting the metal catheter, it was the twisting towards a different plane that made the poor guy yell the most...

Answer 2

Pre-endoscopy, we are given a local anesthetic. Its fiberoptic tube is inserted through the mouth, esophagus and down on the digestive organs. So I'd say foley catheterization must be painful, no anesthesia is involved, and most male patients do shout or grimace in pain upon insertion (depends on your pain tolerance too).

Answer 3

penile catheterisation was painful for me. I had to be catheterized for three weeks after prostate cancer surgery and I did not enjoy it.

Answer 4

the catheterizing is more painful

Answer 5

stomach