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Does any other disease apart from the common cold have so many treatments that give so many men little hope of a cure that is guaranteed ? No wonder this Forum cannot point anyone in the right direction and just confuses them.
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jimjames derek76
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Does any other disease apart from the common cold have so many treatments that give so many men little hope of a cure that is guaranteed ? No wonder this Forum cannot point anyone in the right direction and just confuses them.
You express my current sentiments exactly. That's why I chose self catherization (CIC) until which time the current "cures" make more sense. Sometimes less is more.
Jim
derek76 jimjames
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keith42667 derek76
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I credit this forum for telling me that it was OK to do cic indefinitely, because that is really what I wanted to do. My Urologist did not encourage me and I did not even know it was an option. My wife first read to me off the internet what a long and painful recovery there was from TURP and Green Light laser wasn't a whole lot better. At that time I was getting along well doing cic while waiting for surgery because I could not come even close to draining my bladder naturally; and the experience and advise on this board felt like nothing less than a God-send. Without that encouragement I probably would have gone ahead and done what the doctor had me scheduled for.
derek76 keith42667
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I can only repeat that with GL my life was back to normal activities by day three and able to go out and about without always wondering where the nearest toilet was. People were saying that they had not expected to see me at the races that day, had my operation been cancelled ?.
As friend who went to London for his had his catheter out the same afternoon and was out shopping the next day in Kings Road with his wife before going back to see his Uro and catching his plane home. That's the way it was for most of us. Another who travelled home by train the same day played Pool the next night.
oldbuzzard derek76
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I think this forum helps a lot of men. The two big takeaways that are pretty clear are:
1) You can self cath indefinitely, not do any procedure and be perfectly healthy and possibly rehab your bladder.
2) There are things that can be done now that are very unlikely to cause permanent devastating side effects. The biggest risk is that that you go through it for no benefit. But if you find a good doc who has done a lot of them and match the procedure to your physiology, your odds of permanent problems are exceedingly low and your odds of getting significant relief are quite good. And #2 wasn't true as recently as 3 years ago.
derek76 oldbuzzard
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Evidently Victorian gentlemen carried their rubber catheters rolled up inside their top hats and died within a few months from an infection.