My Urolift Recovery Experience

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Hi Dave,

How are you doing?

Continuation – 12/12/18 – It’s now just over 5 weeks, and happy to report my condition has improved, though perhaps not as much as I would have wished for. The burning while peeing disappeared at about week three. Coming up to five weeks now, and still getting up 4 to 5 times per night; but my doc had said it could take up to six months for that to improve. I’m peeing mostly about 100 ml per, but occasionally 200 ml, which is an improvement. Also, most welcome, I no longer stop/start, and pee in a very thin stream/dribble. I now pee right away, instead of standing there wanting to pee for about 15 seconds, like I used to. Now its a small stream, but certainly not a gusher (as I had hoped for). The urgency problem hasn’t gone away, so I’ve got to be ready when the call comes. I probably pee every hour (at least) during the day. Hopefully this will improve in coming months. Disappointed that the doc’s office hasn’t bothered to call me to inquire about my progress; seems like that should be standard procedure; and especially since I had lots of difficulties.

Wanted to add my experience so far from day zero to day 10 after having 6 clips installed.

I read a lot of people saying the procedure was almost painless or slightly painful. My co-worker had four clips installed and he said it hurt, but was "not that bad". Everyone IS DIFFERENT. I knew that, so I decided to go for it.

The BAD:

I had the Urethra numbing lidocaine, the up the butt shots directly to my prostate and nitrous. Even with all that this was the worst pain I've ever had. I was groaning in extreme pain...at least a 9 out of 10 on the scale...10 wanting to die. It felt like he was sticking a stiff metal rod down my urethra and going side to side scraping my pelvic bone (which isn't far from the truth). I was in so much pain I'm not certain how long the procedure, from insertion to being done, was. I think about 20 minutes. My prostate was only 54 (I think they don't do urolift after 80?). But I was very closed off inside and the doc said he had to push harder to get through than my prostate size would indicate. THAT might have been why it hurt so bad. I could barely pee...it took me about two minutes to just get started so I think he was telling the truth about the inside of the prostate being a lot worse than it appeared from the outside.

After that nightmare was over the doc said that due to the difficulty of insertion I might have more swelling than usual so he recommended a catheter...which I had never had before. From the moment the catheter went in I felt horrible. I'm not sure if it was psychological or physical or both, but I felt horrible. I went home about an hour after the cath was put in. After trying to move about for a couple of hours I got very light headed and nauseous. I laid on the floor with a trash can in case I puked. This lasted about 5 minutes, then it got better and went away. I called the doc. He said I was probably having a delayed "shock" from the procedure. He was probably right as it didn't come back over the next couple of hours. But I felt I had to constantly pee, like others said here, even though almost nothing came out. Again, I just felt horrible. It's hard to describe. It might have just been the combo of having the procedure and the cath, both firsts for me. But I was miserable. I finally went back to the doc about 6 hrs after the procedure as I didn't think I was passing enough urine. After he spoke to me he decided to see if I could get by without the cath. He said if I could pass urine we could probably risk leaving it out. He pumped 250 cc's of saline, or whatever, into my bladder then removed it. He then asked me to try to pee it out and left for about 10 minutes. I peed out 235 cc within 3 minutes. He came back in and said he thought we should be good to go.

At this point I got some kind of euphoric rush. Was it physical? Psychological?--from having the cath out? I don't know, but I felt almost high I was so releived. That feeling lasted like three hours, lol. I went home.

The Not So BAD to Good:

For the rest of the day I was peeing like every 15-20 min...or feeling like I needed to pee. Very little came out, but like others here said, it felt like I had 10 gallons in there. When I peed it felt like a horrible UTI (felt like p*****g razor blades) and I had severe bladder spasms. They hurt so bad that I had to grip the walls and groaned to keep from crying/yelling. Very bad pain, maybe 7.5/10, so not as bad as the procedure so I could deal with it. My pee was pretty bright red (expected) so I wasn't freaked out about it. This continued throughout the day. That night I knew I could not sleep so I didn't try. I would fall asleep involuntarily for 15-20 minutes at a time every 2 hours or so. I kept waking up having to "pee", which I didn't get much out of me. But I was trying to drink as much water as I reasonably could so that I could get things working again. But after while I eased off some, as some said here, because it hurt so bad to pee...mostly the bladder spasms...the urethra burning was bad, but not nearly as bad as the spasms.

Day 2:

The blood eased up quite a bit. The urethra burning started getting better throughout the day. My peeing was still about every 20 minutes. Waking up about every two hours to pee.

Day 3:

Blood almost gone. Some tiny clots here and there. The urethra pain was almost totally gone, but the spasms were still there. They had improved a little, maybe about 75% as bad as day 1. Got up twice to pee during the night.

Day 4:

Peeing during the day about every hour, so a good improvement. I have to get up once a night to pee. No blood, just a tiny random clot. Spasms down to about 50% of original pain.

Days 5-9

Continual improvement. By day 7 bladder spasms had stopped completely. Some small pain between my scrotum and anus...like at the base of my penis. Probably residual soreness from the procedure. I didn't notice it before as the bladder spasms overwhelmed that small pain probably.

Day 10:

Peeing one time at night. Probably because I drink water quite a bit and should stop a couple of hours before bed. Still minor pain between my legs. Very minor. I was concerned it might be a clip that came loose but the doc said the clips were a few inches inside me and I would not be in pain down that far. He said it was probably residual pain from the uro tool and catheter. He said it should be gone totally in a few days and if it wasn't to call him and he could check me out.

Overall condition at this time, day 10:

I don't have to get my bladder full to pee. Urgency has gone down. During the day I pee about every 2-3 hours, but again I drink a lot of water. I forgot to mention before the procedure I had leakage problems sometimes...like when I sneezed or strained lifting something. That seems to be gone. I have had no leakage problems so far. I still don't pee a lot at a time. It seems I fill up about 20-30% of capacity (my estimate from the amount that comes out), then I get the urge. The flow is not a "fire hose"----yet. Maybe it will be after another week or three. I don't know. But honestly if I had no further improvement I would still be pretty happy.

So bottom line-------if you have the procedure will it be horribly painful like mine was? We don't know. It seems everyone is different and I didn't know how I would feel until I was going through it. BUT for ME...If I ever need more clips put in I WILL get some harder core anesthesia. But besides the very painful procedure I'm VERY happy with the results. Even at day 10!