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because you have to retrain your bladder and the neurological connection from the brain to the bladder. when you have a catheter in the urine just flows right down the tubing and no effort is needed. but after using it effort is needed to urinate.

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Having been through two major surgeries with catheters, I understand what you are talking about. It is frustrating.

I believe the pressure of the relatively firm catheter tube and the inflated balloon holding it in place, in an area that normally has no physical contact, disrupts and irritates the sensitive nerves that control bladder flow and sensation of "urgency" temporarily.

Once the catheter is removed it takes a little while for the sensitive areas to calm down and return to the normal feelings that signal time to go or time to hold.

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