Recent GL surgery

I'm a 66 year old male who except for BPH in reasonably good health (could stand to lose about 10 pounds though). My BPH symptoms started to get noticeable about 6 years ago. Over the course of about 4 years the frequent urination was for the most part taken care of by taking a 5mg dose of Daily Cialis. Then the symptoms started to get worse...dripping. a couple of small accidents here and there. My PCP got me on Tamsulosin .4mg once a day (along with the daily Cialis. Things got better again for about a year or so. But then after a brief period of worsening symptoms I noticed that I was not getting up as much overnight...maybe once a night and during the day it seemed like the urges were less frequent. But after a couple of months something didn't seem right and I always seem a little bloated. So back in June I went to see a new Urologist. He did a bladder scan, etc and told me that in addition to BPH I also had a weakened bladder and that I was retaining about 350 or so ml of liquid. At my age he said 125-150 ml would be acceptable. He kinda scared the crap out of me about what might happen if I ignored this...but in a good way as it turns out. He put me on a double dose of Tamsulosin (along with staying on Daily Cialis). He had me come back later in the month (about 4 weeks) to see if there was any improvement which there wasn't. He then placed an indwelling catheter in me and scheduled me for GL surgery. I had to wait almost four weeks for that (due to back ups in day surgery due to Covid). At the end of July I had the surgery and was in and out of the hospital in about 5 hours. I went home with another catheter (this was on a Friday) and was given my post op instructions along with instructions to remove the catheter on the Monday after the surgery. Removing the catheter was easy with just a little discomfort. I had no problems with voiding and my stream was moderate to strong with some bleeding at the start of the voiding. Later that day I went back for a followup appointment. A bladder scan indicated that I only had 80ml in the bladder...very happy! I was told to continue with the Tamsulosin till my refilll ran out (this week). For the time after my followup my stream has gotten even stronger and I seem to voiding most of the fluid I take in during a 24 hour period. I'm drinking about 2-3 liters a day. The bleeding (which only lasted for a second or two at the start of voiding stopped earlier this week. At times there is a little discomfort during the middle or end of voiding but I certainly couldn't call it pain (knock on wood). I've been getting up about once a night for the past two weeks to void and then again first thing in the morning. Generally the overnight void is about 400-450 ml. The voids in the first part of the day are less but then build as I drink more fluid. Some days I still feel an urge to pee in between voids but I believe that is more due to inactivity and force of habit. Right now I pee about every 2-2.5 hours (sometimes a little less sometime a little longer in between). I will probably cut down on my fluid intake to about 1.5 ml after I visit my Urologist again in about 10 days. Keeping my fingers crossed but everything seems to be going well.

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