I was asymptomatic until June. Acute Retention shut me down completely and I lived on a catheter for four months. Lots of bad things happened on the way to aquablation, which I knew I wanted versus Holep. Surgery was the end of September. My prostate was 110 grams and I had a trans perineal biopsy to ensure there was no cancer.

Surgery lasted about 75 minutes. I needed to stay in the surgical ward under quarantine, as the long term catheter use infected me with Seratia bacteria. I bled a lot and stayed an extra night in the hospital. Surgery on Friday, discharged on Sunday. I was supposed to have the drain catheter out on Monday...but I was still bleeding too heavily. The spasm from the drain catheter were the worst part. The catheter came out on Friday...a week after the procedure.

I drank 3 quarts of water every day. At around day 17 the bleeding completely stopped with no more clots being passed. I only had two or three days of passing clots. From the very first moment the catheter came out, I was peeing like a racehorse. For the first two weeks it was every ninety minutes...both day and night. By the start of the third week, I was back to 4-5 times during the day...once per night. Volume is much greater than I was passing before the procedure. I haven't peed like this in years...maybe decades.

Semen is being ejaculated forward and out. I do not think my penis is any shorter, which is good. I've never been the biggest tool in the shed. I am on a steady diet of pumpkin seeds, salmon, tomato sauce and green tea. I do not want to go through this again in ten years...but I highly recommend aquablation. Just be prepared to bleed for a while if you have a larger prostate.