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

Hi john my resume surgery was waste of time to. It was a failure. It actually made me pee more

@john98818: I am now 34 days post rezum with no improvement.

John,

Before you try any more surgery, what sort of tests (urodynamics, urinalysis, cystoscopy, TRUS, other) were done and what were the conclusions of those tests? Basically what did the tests say was broken? You don't have to post the exact conclusions of the tests here.

Steve

First of all John

Before you do anything you should wait until your at the 3 month mark. They do say it can take up to 3 months

Now did they check to see if it was your prostate was the problem not your bladder. It seams like you should not have a problem with that small of a prostate

If I would you I would have the Urolift done first before I would have anything cut out. That may just cause you more problem. They can damage the nerve bundle and there will go your sex life and ejaculation.

I had the Urolift done 3 1/2 years ago and still wide open and do side effects

Take care & Good Luck Ken

thanks Ken and Steve, i think urolift may be a good option. my prostate US showed a size of 24. my Qmax was about 8 or 9.

my pvr is usually around 100 cc. what else should i get? my psa is low

oh and cysto was unremarkable with "mild" trabeculation. of bladder.

@john98818 : oh and cysto was unremarkable with "mild" trabeculation. of bladder

John,

Thanks for ALL of the info. As Ken said, wait the full 3 months. So the cystoscopy found nothing unusual about your bladder other than some mild thickening and a loss of elasticity of the bladder muscle walls which happens with BPH obsctruction.

If the trabeculation is really bad, that could impact the ability to pee even after surgery as the bladder does not have the muscle tone to push the pee out. A few of us on this forum have compromised bladders due to periods of AUR.

I will have to do a little Internet research to see if a Qmax of 8 to 9 is OK or not. So far, of all of the procedures that I have researched, the information on the urodynamics test has been the most difficult to find any good material on.

If you have any good links on urodynamics testing, I would love to see them, but you may need to PM me as in the past, this forum has blocked posts with links, or you can just post the citation to the articles.

Steve

thank you. this is complicated stuff!

Tom

Sorry to hear about the that. What are you going to do now

Ken

John

Get more information on your bladder Before I would do anything major I would try the Urolift. It would take the presser of the bladder neck. Most of the time your good to go in 2 to 4 weeks

Good Luck Ken

thank you

John

It's no problem. We are re all on here anyway we can. If you have any questions please let me know. If you need me to look up something for you. I am here Most of the time I don't go to bed till 2 or 3 am

Take it easy.......Ken

John

Sorry I have to stop typing so fast and read before I hit the button. What I ment was We are all on here to help anyway we can

Ken

Ken, So you are a night owl too? Steve

Hey Steven

Yes that me. Sometimes I can't sleep and I will be up on the computer looking up things or watching a movie till 5 or 6 am

If you need me to so research on something for you let me know.

Have a great evening...........................Ken

Ken,

Same here. I have been trying to get to bed between 1 and 2 AM but I should aim for earlier, like before midnight. That way, I am up at about 7 or 8 AM for my next 6 hour self-cath so my volumes stay below 400 ml.

One of the 2 things that I don't like about this whole BPH-AUR situation is the overnight self cath. I need about 15 to 20 minutes to be coherent enough to self cath and after that, I am too awake to go back to sleep so I might as well make breakfast and watch the news. After I eat and I am digesting, I get sleepy again so I go back to bed. Once I get up for lunch, I am up for the day.

The other thing that I don't like is the blurry vision from the Flomax which never worked. I wonder who else on this forum has their sleep messed up by self-cathing (not that our sleep was good with BPH ).

Steve

Steven

It's bad that we can't sleep. I have a lot on my mind and I try not to think about things but I do what I can

The other day I went to bed at about 1 am Watching a movie and I started to look at the selves on the side of my bed. Ended up getting up and cleaned them and move everything around. Did that the other day with my other selves. I have about 500 DVD's I went through them and put them in alphabetical order and typed them up on a list on my computer.

Have you try anything else to relax the bladder and get off Flomax. They are some that will not mess you up as bad. When I feel I am not peeing enough have you ever tried taking a hot path or shower and see if you can pee before you lay down.

Ken

thanks again!