REZUM--HAVE YOU HAD THIS DONE???????

hang in there kevin, I had a similar result after standard biopsy. on the 5th biopsy i felt a release of fluids out of the penis. it was when i got dressed I noticed it was blood. the biopsy sample punctured the urethra. the next 2 weeks were passing ribbons of blood, clots etc. it was a bloody mess. once the urethra started to heal, the blood became less and less. As for your rezum, sound like the steam didnt cauterize one or more of the injections. Having to catherize is also irritating and compounding your problem. My other guess is possible infection in the urethra. some have mentioned clots in the bladder that block urination, hope the area heals, the blood dissapates and the normal rezum healing takes place. My urologist had a patient who bled a lot during the procedure, she adopted a protocol of finesteride 14 days prior to rezum. I had 15 injections for an XL prostate. 2 lydocaine shots via the rectum, lydocaine gel to numb the urehtra. foley 3.5 days. passed a little pink around the catheter day 2, other than that no bleeding, no pain. was able to urninate slowly on my own. stream picked up around 2 weeks, went off flomax and have been healing for the past 9 months. Hope your better days are ahead. ipss 22 to 8. no leaking, in total control again. good luck

My prostate was 35mm, not too large, but I was significantly blocked... IDK my LUTS score but 2-3 times peeing each night was standard pre-Rezum.

I should say this: my doctor is very caring and appears to be genuinely empathetic and is attentive, hes definitely not apathetic or cold about this. I chose him for this reason... hes a good person. ill be having the cystoscope in just over an hour and update you guys.

Thanks for the support.

My experiences so far have been similar to what Kevin and Michael are reporting. We all seemed to buy into the 2 weeks recovery time, and when that didn't happen, it impacts us more severely than we could have anticipated. At 4+ weeks post procedure now I have realized that the healing seems a bit intermittent. I had one day about 2 weeks post treatment where my steam improved and I thought I was getting better. That lasted about half a day and then I went back into intense burning when peeing and having my stream constricted again. About a week later I had another short stint of hope. I started antibiotics last week in case I had a UTI and after about 3-4 days I felt like things were improving. I didn't get a check at the docs to see if I had one, but had some Amoxicillin and started that anyway just in case. I guess symptoms for a UTI and post-Rezum effects are similar.Now, I'm not sure as it seems like a bit of pain and limited flow are returning, all though not as bad.Just when I start to get some hope of improvement, things seem to go backwards for a while.

I resumed (no pun) sex at about 2 weeks post treatment even though I was still peeing blood and still had pain. Orgasms were weak at first but began to return to normal pretty quickly even though there has always been blood in the semen. I'm curious if anyone knows if orgasm is good for the healing or impedes it?? I've wondered if I have prolonged the healing due to having regular sex, or if perhaps it is actually good for the prostate and in getting rid of the tissue that is being expunged. My experience here is also that things improve and then I've had a few setbacks. Today I felt a distinct new pain in my groin (sharper than normal) and it tends to initially show up as pain in the tip of the penis. I've found the pain is actually in the prostate (I think). I had this happen once before and it went away quickly both times, but I noticed my orgasm this morning was considerably weaker, almost didn't happen. This has happened a few times, and so I'm deducing this is my prostate healing and at least for me, things improve and then go backwards for a while.

Here's wishing you all the best as we continue to heal! Bill

hey Bill. sounds like you had your procedure done in late September? i wonder the same thing about ejaculation- i just got permission from my doc today and a LOT of whole blood came out. frightening actually... but symptoms feel a bit better now... or maybe im imagining it...

Recovery varies a lot and there doesn't seem to be any way to predetermine how you'll react. But that's true for all prostate procedures. You'll find threads on this site from people who were pretty much good as new a day or two after TURP/Holep/Greenlight and others who still had problems months later. Most are somewhere in between. It would seem that everyone reacts differently to prostate trauma.

Docs should explain the most likely scenario along with what the bottom 10-20% is like so patients can plan accordingly. It took me 3-4 weeks to get a weak stream back but orgasms were fine from day 3 on. Others can pee much sooner but have orgasm issues for a few weeks. Everyone is different and many docs don't prepare people for the range of recovery possibilities.

So today was noticeably better in that I didnt feel any urgency at all, and did not have to self cath at all. My stream is weak and it burns like a MF... I was told by the Urologist that the burn is actually the urine passing through the inflamed prostate but you "feel" it at the tip of your urethra. Anyhow, I did decide to cath tonight to be sure I was voided and I had only 50ml left after peeing, so thats pretty good.

I wanted to thank everyone here who has chimed in. Before I got all the responses that I did, I was super worried something went wrong during the procedure and that my recovery was shaping up to be abnormally long. This all is of course thanks to absolutely, horribly misleading advertising by Boston Scientific, Resume owners.

Now that I know my recovery is looking much more similar to the majority of yours, Im much more relaxed and able to put my concerns aside for now.

Hopefully I wont wake up totally blocked tonight, we will see.

Badbolr- so sorry you're having a rough time of it

Please keep up the updates every few days or so as you are able

I am 7 days post procedure, had the catheter in for 3 days, then 2 days of really hard to pee and almost went to the emergency place. now I am peeing better but still get up about every hour to pee. I had a first post procedure orgasm last night and there was blood everywhere, no semen-- is this normal? does it happen multiple times? Glad the catheter is out, but i was surprised at how hard it was too pee. I had 6 shots of the vapor thing and was told the procedure went well. I did the Urolift 2 months ago-- totally worthless, will never see that Dr again. When the catheter came out, I leaked urine for 2 days/nights, had to change underwear multiples times. So far it was $ well spent. I am 67 and a runner, so don't have stress now when I go for a run.