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That's encouraging, and happy for you. As I said, I'm still peeing like an eye dropper. Every time I go I'm afraid that "this time I'm going to be obstructed" but then with pain it dribbles out. I'm taking the shot gun approach now with meds. Flowmax, Terazosin, AZO, ibuprofen. I think part of my problem stems from the catheter where the anchor point was too high, injuring the exit point. If I knew for sure that this temporary, it'd be no big deal, I can take a few more days or even weeks, but I wouldn't want to live the rest of my life like this. You guys that had trouble at first, how bad was it? Hearing you stories of improvement are encouraging.
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They kept my catheter in for 16 days after the TULSA procedure, so my experience might be different, but I would describe my peeing as a slow flow, not a dribble, and there was never any pain with urination. I'm assuming that, like me, after they removed your catheter they performed an ultrasound to confirm that your bladder was emptying sufficiently.
We made a five day road trip one week after the catheter came out, and the Tesla required more stops than my bladder.
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I was pretty much like you, but I had to drive home after catheter out, and home was 22 hour drive. I think that was the hard part, but I learned to stand in a stall and that helped to pee, that rather than sit which seemed to restrict a bit. Maybe it was odd 22 hour drive so use gas station bathroom or fast food bathroom with stalls, go in a stall and then stand and lean forward a bit, perhaps others in these bathrooms were wondering, but it was what I needed and basically no way standing at a urinal would do it for me as you mention it was slow. So just do what you need to do.... I think your catheter was out earlier than mine so you might need another week here, but after I got back from my drive it was not so bad and things improved fairly easily with all the flomax and so on. Not sure on AZO if that would help, I had some in my bag but I never used it. I think Boswellia did help as I got home I had some for when my wife gets joint pain so that and flomax did the job, but again I was further out.