Prostate surgery scheduled for December 7th
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Good morning everyone my schedule surgery is for December 7th I am having my prostate removed any advice would be really helpful like when should I start with pads and exercise the pelvic area
The closer the date comes the more nervous I get I was pretty good the last couple of weeks went to work like nothing was going on but now I'm starting to realize close to that this is reality any advice would be helpful I'm ready to tackle this monster and beat it down
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rick75354 greg43014
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You will be sent home with a cathater in place for probably close to 2 weeks.
You won't need pads until that comes out but then you will need a lot of them for the first while. I didn't do any exercises after because up until recently, any kind of activity would cause me to leak like a sieve. Things have gotten better in the last couple of weeks so I might start doing them to speed things along.
greg43014 rick75354
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barney34567 greg43014
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To summarise what others have said, speaking as someone who went through a robot assisted radical prostatectomy:
* before surgery you may choose to learn some pelvic floor exercises;
* after surgery a catheter will be in place for 7-14 days and you'll be peeing into either a large bag or a smaller leg bag;
* after the bag is removed you can drive a car;
* you will notice you will be urinating without having much control over it;
* you will wear pads, high absorption ones, for the first month or so and less of them as time marches on;
* three months on I am on one light pad per day. On days I chose not to wear a pad, I find I leak involuntarily and assume that it's going to be some more weeks before I am comfortable giving up the one pad.
Good luck.
rick75354 barney34567
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This might seem like a strange question, but do you have a strong stream when you urinate now? It's been about 2 1/2 months since I had my surgery and I am just now getting a somewhat steady flow, but it is more of a trickle than a stream. If I try to force it, it makes little difference.
barney34567 rick75354
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I can attest to the fact that the stream post op is stronger than pre op. I suppose it has something to do with having a shorter urethra, which was cut and is always cut in a radical prostatectomy.
My improved stream was evident two months post surgery.
May I ask if you drink a good amount of liquids daily? Or are you like many who are uncomfortable with their urinary habits and minimise the volume of liquids drunk. I was like that before riding the more you flush the bladder and kidneys, ie the more you drink, the better. If this makes you visit the toilet very often, so be it.
rick75354 barney34567
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I'll admit that I have been limiting my liquid intake. I'm going to try to drink more now that I'm gaining some control, but at first the fluids were just going right through.
barney34567 rick75354
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it took weeks for me to feel comfortable enough to drink post op what I drank daily before the operation.
Of course I was worried I would leak or not get to the toilet in time. So it took me a while to ratchet up my drinking from almost nothing to what i now have, which is a normal intake of fluids.
This is an adjustment every guy makes, some quicker than others.
Deeks33656 greg43014
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Hi Greg
I hope you're well. And getting over you're OP. Here's my status 18 months on. I'm 55 years old and pretty fit. Never been in hospital my whole life until my surgery last year. My 4 month check up on the 8th december still shows no trace of the evil yet somehow natural cancer. So all good. Here's my truth: Although I'm so called healthy I don't have a normal (sex) life. I have to use 'machinery' to achieve an erection. As my polite GP says, "our sex life defines us". As I was a often a 'lover of sex' purely for the act itself this is therefore a crushing and perpetually cruel state of affairs. No pills have given me anything near the sex life i used to have and which I definately took for granted. They plain don't work. The severing of nerves "on one side" by my surgeon has laid me neutered. Sex less. Should I be grateful? I suppose so. Will cancer come back? I don't know. I now re calibrate my life and purpose and focus on watching my ten year old daughter grow up and willingly forego a fantastic acrobatic sexlife with my beautiful and silently tolerant partner and instead seek the joy of fatherhood - tough as that will be, if I'm lucky. If someone out there has reached the 2 year mark or longer and has had the return of some normal sex life then i'd love to hear from you. Otherwise I'll keep buying "magic Herbal" viagra substitutes from the US and buy the BS marketing sensational splurge in the hope that "horny goat weed" actually might work if I swallow enough pills.
greg43014 Deeks33656
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greg43014 Deeks33656
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barney34567 Deeks33656
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Deeks33656 greg43014
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Water works mostlty normal. Initailly a trial. 8 weeks on then no more pads required. These days I have to ensure before sex that my bladder is empty as can be.
apologies for late response.
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Deeks33656 barney34567
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