UroLift day by day recovery and complications experience
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I am a 63 year old man in better than average shape. I had my UroLift procedure on Thursday, March 10, 2022. I was put under for the procedure at 9:15am and was told I would be released by around noon the same day. I woke up and the clock read 11:55 so I thought we were on schedule. I had a catheter with one tube flushing out my bladder while the second drain tube ran into a bucket. that went on for another three and a half hours due to the amount of blood and blood clots still draining. At 4pm the nurse removed my catheter. Although my stream was strong, many clots were still coming out. At 5pm the doctor said they may have to recatheter me which I strongly resisted. By 5pm my clots were small enough that the doctor released me to go home. Taking antibiotics, an analgesic and Tylenol, I was in a lot of pain and got up to pee every 15-minutes the first night. I was very constipated from the anesthesia, which didn't help. Day-2-Friday: reduced blood in my urine and smaller clotting. drinking lots of water and Gatorade. Eating fruit and prunes to help constipation with no luck. By evening I took a suppository. Very little relief from constipation. was so tired I passed out around 8pm and slept most of the night getting up only three times to pee. Urine was clear with only very small clots occasionally. Day-3-Saturday: drinking lots of water and eating fruit. Finally had a few bowel movements which started with heavy straining even though doctor warned me not to. Very tired most of the day and fell asleep around 10:30pm.
Day 4-Sunday: Slept until 4:30am and when I urinated, a lot of blood and passed some large clots. Again at 6:30am urinated with blood and large clots. At 8am I told my wife about the clots and she wanted to take me to the hospital. I resisted thank God as after those two incidents, no more blood or clots in my urine. Still have a strong urge to urinate and my penis hurts when I urinate and the pain lasts another 3-5 minutes after I stop from bladder spasms. Based on how my Urologist said the pain would be minimal and I can resume normal activities within two weeks, I am doubtful but hopeful at the same time. My wife and I depart for Barcelona the end of April. Hopefully I will be close to normal by then? I will update in a few days.
Day 7: woke up at 3:30am to pee. Small amount of blood but couldn't urinate. Drank more water to hopefully flush out clot that was blocking me from urinating and by 4am my wife took me to the ER. They gave me a Foley catheter and I evacuated 1700ml. Bladder spasms are excruciating. Called my POS urologist office at 9am. they finally returned my call at 12-noon. the nurse was supposed to call in meds for my spasms but two hours later the pharmacy has receive no prescriptions. My catheter bag continues to fill with dark red urine. I called the urologist office again with no help at all. I'm about to become the urologist's office staff's worst nightmare. What ever happened to the medical staff that gives great patient care? At this point, 6-days after surgery, I would not recommend the UroLift.
Day 9: spent last two days in the hospital after going to the ER twice in one day. Blood clots were clogging up the Foley catheter so hospital hooked up gallon bags of sterile water to catheter to flush out my bladder. Two days and 15 water bags later, was flushing clear fluid out of my bladder. Hospital performed CT scan and then MRI to ensure no problems with a tumor in kidneys or bladder. All good with all my organs. Finally saw my urologist. He stated that when he performed my Urolift, my prostate was very vascular and looked "angry" so he wasn't too surprised at the amount of bleeding. Returned home last night with no catheter thank God. Slept good last night. Bladder spasms have subsided and passing only a few clots today. Praying I don't get clogged up again. Drinking lots of water and Gatorade to keep my bladder flushed out. Urologist said if i get clogged up again they will cauterize the bleeding areas with a cystoscope. Praying I'm over the hump and the healing begins.
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