4 days ago, I gave birth to my son via c-section. I had my foley catheter placed on Thursday evening and it was removed on Saturday morning, so it was in place for approximately 36 hours. After removing the catheter, I have had severe pain when urinating. It's not a burning pain or anything, but more like a severe, sharp pain when emptying my bladder. It begins to hurt as I feel my bladder filling up and make me feel like I have to urinate immediately. If I don't empty my bladder, the pain will continue to increase. Then when I do empty my bladder, it does okay during urination, but seizes up at the end of the urine flow and is extremely painful. It's a horrible pain, like a bladder spasm I suppose, but even what the doctor gave me to control bladder spasms has not worked. It's still excruciating when I have to urinate and I dread it every time. Any ideas what this might be? I just got discharged from the hospital today so I haven't had a chance to talk to my doctor about it all yet. I'm hoping it gets better! I can handle the pain of the c-section...it's the pain of the bladder that I can't stand! Ugh. Any ideas what might be going on with me? Could it be a temporary complication of the catheter?
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