Urinating/Peeing after the operation

Post-operation peeing is something which has certainly ended up different for me. It may also be different for you.

I don’t know about you, but my phimosis used to cause some problem for me when urinating. It was almost like the foreskin was ‘in the way’, which sometimes meant that I sprayed a little too much when peeing.

Like I have explained earlier in the blog, your first few pees are very strange indeed. At first you will have next to no control over your stream. I really can not stress this enough. It is kind of like peeing our of a watering can! I would recommend that, until this passes, you sit down to pee where possible. I actually made sure that I didn’t go anywhere public until this had passed. It would be pretty much impossible to use public toilets whilst you are like this. This stopped after only around 2 days, so do not panic. As the swelling goes down, your stream will get more and more regular.

The feeling of ‘having a wee’ has changed for me. I am now totally used to it, but it is certainly different. The way I see it, it was as if my tight foreskin was preventing my urine from coming out the way it should. When I used to pee, my foreskin would sometimes ‘balloon’ a little, as if there was too much built up pressure.

For the first few days, you may not be able to feel yourself passing water AT ALL. This is due to the anaesthetic. It is a weird feeling (or lack of feeling) but it doesn’t last long. However, even when you get the feeling back, it is as if you can’t feel as much as you did before. I think this is simply because you will no longer have that build up of pressure that you are used to. Everything just happens a lot easier.

Lastly, you will have a few stitches under the bass of your penis which actually finish pretty close to the opening of your penis. Because of this, it is not difficult for a tiny amount of urine to come into contact with one of your stitch wounds. This stings – but it is not dangerous. Just be warned. It is like putting on aftershave after you have cut your face!