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steven43881
steven43881

To have a Turp is to commit suicide !!

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  • zdzislaw
    zdzislaw steven43881

    Posted

    Steven, this is not very helpful... Tell us more about your (bad?) experience. I signed for greenlight, but I also signed a disclaimer (if sth goes wrong, the technique may be changed). I have had half greenlight half TURP. I am not happy, but who is??? In my case it is the prostate cancer that made full greenlight difficult.

    Six weeks after the procedure I am incontinent . Not very much, but...The point is I was incontinent before the procedure, then improved 10 days after the procedure, then , for no reason, I started having terrible urges. It takes 3 months, they say, before you can judge the results...To hope or not to hope, that is the question...

    • steven43881
      steven43881 zdzislaw

      Posted

      I am hear zdzislaw. I will answer you in bits and peices, because it is a long story. I just hope I didn't do anything to hurt myself because I never meant to. I had an inflamed prostate and my urinary flow was a dismall 3.2 cc/ sec. BUT I also had proatatitis. This caused me a lot of grief with sitting down, ect, ect. I went to one dr. and he extracted a couple of bladder stones, but there were still several bladder stones left in the bladder as well as 250 cc of stail infected urine left in the bladder. It was Cristmas time and the urologist was going on vacation so he gave me a window to use and offere the procedure on the next day. Mind you I was in terrible discomfort because the prostatiis was causing me much grief. The kidney stones came down and might have turned into bladder stones because I had been full of stail urine for a matter of 8 years. I just was not completely emptying my bladder. I was put on Flomax, but it just didn't work. I was offered it in 2001, but it didn't work. When I was offered it again in 2009 my stream remained like that of an 85 year old man. So the only alternative I was given was Turp. He didn't offer me Avadart, which at the time I didn't even know if it existed.I told him about the "golf ball" like feeling I was having in my prostate, but the Turp Dr. didn't seem to know what that was. There's a possibility, my current Dr. is telling me. that  the stagnant urine could have moved down into the Prostate and caused the infection, But was turp necessary. So that is where I am today, just trying to find out answers. There are methods today that just weren't around in late 2009, so these people are lucky. I was warned by the Turp dr. that my prostate was bad in 2001, but I didn't heed his advise. I said to myself that maybe i will get it looked at someday and when 2009 rolled around, I was in rough shape. The question is is did the Dr. move to fast because of the holiday season or should I have waited. I was given no choice. If I hadn't had the procedure done and just had the kidney stones taken out would my condition have gotten worse? I am still in discomfort down in that area and am desparately trying to find balance again once in my life. I don't like the retro grade, but would gladly accept that if I could just feel good down in my public area again. 

         Steve 

  • zdzislaw
    zdzislaw steven43881

    Posted

    I am sorry for you, Steve. It seems to me that your condition was particularly serious and complicated. I have no kidney problems or stones and no prostatitis, although I had it once before. It is not sure  your decision was bad. It may have been quite appropriate, the problem is your bad health now. I don't quite know what to do right now either....
    • steven43881
      steven43881 zdzislaw

      Posted

      I wish there was no such procedure as Turp. Who wants to live like this? I used to have such a great life. I was happy. I didn't know that this was coming my way. 
    • grant66038
      grant66038 steven43881

      Posted

      Hi Steve:

      I dont think it is helpful to blame the TURP procedure and lots of people have had this procedure without issues. It is very safe.

      You were sick for years before the TURP and still have issues now.

      I do feel for you but you just keep posting but you really need to do something about the problems you have as you have put up with these issues for close to 15 years and it is making your life hell.

    • steven43881
      steven43881 grant66038

      Posted

      I know, Grant, but there are also Bad Turps. Between 2001 and 2009, I know I had bad urinary symptoms, but I wasn't feeling bad. Then in 2009 my prostate felt swollen ( I was unable to sit down), my urologist thinks this was infected residual urine causing this. The Turp was then done and I remember a feeling of something not feeling right in the general area where the operation took place. I have been having this feeling ever since. 

         I am a little tired tonight, Grant. I will write more tomorrow. 

  • grant66038
    grant66038 steven43881

    Posted

    Hi Steve:

    I am wondering too if depression is an issue here as well.

    Depression shouldn't be underestimated. It is often a comorbid condition when people have been unwell for a long time. It can also affect perceptions of pain. Some types of pain can be treated with antidepressants, for instance.

    I was just reading an article on pain management this morning. It is a complex issue and there are specialists in this area too.

    • steven43881
      steven43881 grant66038

      Posted

      Hi Grant,

        I am reading a book called " Switch on Your brain ", which I hope will help me with my negative thoughts. I just wish everyone would know how much I was Hurt by that Dr. up North. I can't get him off my thoughts night and day as I feel he pushed me through this awful surgery before I had a chance to think things through. The discomfort I was having from my swollen prostate made me make a quick decision, which I now regret. The question is now how do I try to get my mind back to a good place so I can try to reclaim my life once again. There is no question that I am in discomfort in the area between my testacles and anus. I just want to please find anwers as to why I am feeling this way. As I said, I feel that one day I was feeling healthy and the next day I am a different person. Has anyone else had these feelings?  I was 59 at the time of my procedure, that's why I can relate to people like Grant and MK51151.

          

       

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