Prostate

[dennisb66]

Any Abers (male of course) had there Prostate removed and would like to share their experience.I'm off to Thornbury hospital next week for a consultation and hopefully op shortly afterwards.I have to decide which i prefer a spinal injection or anaesthetic.

[dennisb66]

Re my earlier Prostate thread. Had my Cystoscopy and TURP operation on Wednesday 12th,all went well and discharged after 2 days ie.Friday afternoon.
At 3.30am next morning woke up in extreme pain and could not pass water,wife called ambulance and admitted to local hospital.I was fitted with a catheter and they removed over a litre of urine.Discharged following day Sunday with catheter in situ,very uncomfortable to wear and had 2-3 painful surges a day.Returned to Urology outpatients on Friday 28th to have catheter removed(such relief),drank 4 glasses of diluted orange and informed nurse when I was ready to urinate,My bladder was then scanned to make sure it was empty,it was ,I then had to repeat the process of 4 glasses etc. All was fine and sent home. At first I was urinating very frequently but nurse told me to expect this untill my bladder which had been rested for 2 weeks had retrained itself, feeling good now and things are now getting back to normal so my forthcoming holiday onthe 9th Oct.is all systems go.

[fbg40]

Hi Dennis
Thanks for the update. I hate catheters !! When I had my biopsy I had three TWOCs (Trial without catheter) and failed all of them (I went into "Retention" as they call it.)Consequently I still had a catheter when I went in for the Prostatectomy and had it in for a further 10 days after the op. When it was finally removed it was such a relief !! I ended up being "catheterised" for about 10 weeks in all - horrible. Anyway, glad to hear you're on the mend - best of luck for the future - keep us posted !!
FBG40