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Aquablation: Post-surgery expectations

Men's Health | Last Active: Jan 9 11:27am | Replies (135)
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@uniform8

Thanks for your posting; I am 70 and had an aquablation procedure in Arlington VA Mid January 2024. I was one night in the hospital and then had a Foley Catheter for 4 days. I am now in the 6th week of recovery. I had blood in the urine for the first 4 weeks and urination burned toward the end of voiding. The hematuria is gone, but I still have pain (bladder spasms) that result in an urgent need to urinate. I also now have retrograde ejaculation which after reading the surgery report realize it was due to the area of the prostate, the only issue I have with RE is it is also painful again I assume due to spasms. In the literature I received I thought the expectation was that after 4 weeks all would be great... but I seem worse off than before I had the procedure. I assume that the spasms will eventually go away - does anyone have similar experiences?

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Phil, Alumni Mentor | @upstatephil | Feb 29, 2024

One challenge in reading patient experiences online in hopes of gaining persepctive on what YOU will experience...is that everyone is different and Patient X's experience may/will be different from Patient Y and so on. People are different. Doctors are different. Procedures vary a bit. Aquablation is even harder to predict due to its newness as a procedure.

Have you returned to the urologist for a follow-up opinion?

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hiker35 | @hiker35 | Dec 2, 2024

I wish mine was going as well. Also had aquablation surgery at Arlington Hospital 6 weeks ago. Frankly, I'm not sure that going through with surgery was a good idea. I'm in a much worse place than I was pre-surgery on practically every metric. I have intense pain when urinating. The need to urinate is more frequent and I'm also having problems with incontinence which is entirely new. I just feel ground down by this whole experience. I've had to cut back on my travel and sleep is intermittent.

Tell me it will get better...someday..??

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