Does catheter insertion hurt?

Urethral mucosa is very sensitive, due to various reasons and indwelling catheter, catheter insertion, will show varying degrees of pain discomfort, most patients generally do not feel excessive pain. But if it is due to long-term indwelling catheter, such as urethral injury, urethral stricture. Catheter insertion, due to obvious edema, inflammation, congestion, showing the degree of pain is more obvious. Therefore, it is necessary to pay attention to whether it can restore smooth spontaneous urination after removing the catheter, rather than whether it is painful when inserting the catheter, and these pains are completely tolerable.