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One week post LTHR advice needed

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Ser55
Ser55

hi all, my husband joined the hippy club last Monday 18 April. He's doing ok I think. Just walking indoors with crutches at the moment. His real problem is that when he goes to bed he has to get up every hour to hour and a half to pee. He was getting up a couple of times a night before the op, but it's much worse now. He doesn't have a uti and is fine during the day. Anyone else on here had anything similar?

 

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  • steve86482
    steve86482 Ser55

    Posted

    It was a way of life for me the first few weeks. I hated to get out of the bed to head to bathroom. I asked my wife if I could just put a bucket by the bed. She laughed, said no, said walk, and went back to sleep. It will get better It's nice to sleep through the night again
  • lynn66084
    lynn66084 Ser55

    Posted

    One of the things they don't tell you about, but yes it's normal, probably with all the pulling about.  I used a commode, two steps from my bed to start with and only just made it, pads for me I'm afraid for a while. Got past that now.
    • lynn66084
      lynn66084 annie.conway

      Posted

      No lol it wasn't the pain, it was my waterworks, I couldn't hold it at all, I already had problems with incontinence but was made much worse with the op. That's my next mission, get the incontinence sorted I bought a pelvic toner biggrin
    • annie.conway
      annie.conway lynn66084

      Posted

      I know!! Suddenly my bladder was half the size and I had water sprouting out of me that I cannot tell you where it came from! I still have nights like that, last night being a good example where I became quite grumpy at all the disrupted sleep. 😡
    • lynn66084
      lynn66084 annie.conway

      Posted

      Ahh, the joys lol I usually go once a night now though, occaisionally twice, and I can make it to the loo.
    • Rocketman_SG6UK
      Rocketman_SG6UK lynn66084

      Posted

      It took ages for mine to settle down after the second operation - sometimes I'd get a good night (just 2 or 3 trips to the loo), and other nights it would be back to the hourly trips cry.  When I mentioned it to my GP, he was very surprised, and obviously did not know it was so common.

      Graham - 🚀💃

    • lynn66084
      lynn66084 Rocketman_SG6UK

      Posted

      That's where this site comes in handy, learn all sorts and helps us to have peace of mind, see docs don't know everything lol

      Took me a while to settle too, didn't know anyone could hold so much. I did notice, when I went to the hospital at 3 weeks on my x-ray, there was a big ball there, it must of been my bladder. I so want my x-rays, find things like that fascinating.lol

    • Rocketman_SG6UK
      Rocketman_SG6UK lynn66084

      Posted

      Me to Lynn, that's why I started my THR website, with input from everyone on this forum.
    • lynn66084
      lynn66084 Rocketman_SG6UK

      Posted

      I'm going to tell the consultant about this forum and your site Graham, maybe see if he will pass it on to patients.
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