Thanks Peterj and SMC for your replies. They are very helpful. In terms of pressure from the bladder if full can cause some squirts for example when bending over, the urodynamics test on Monday indicated that after nearly a year of either catheterization of stress incontinence into Depends, the bladder seems to be very small. I guess I'll need to go frequently. From what I've read it won't really be possible to use urinals going forward because it will take two hands to handle the device (one hand above on the tubes and one hand to push the pump) and that would involve dropping your shorts. I'm happy to hear they use surgical glue for the incision since changing dressings/bandages strikes me as being very difficult. SMC, do they shave the pubic hair off prior to the procedure. It wasn't addressed in the handouts they gave me Monday.

Thanks,

Brian

Hi Peter and SMC,

I had the AUS surgery on Monday 2/10 and everything went pretty well. The incision that I thought would be the most painful, the perineal incision, was only 4 cm long according to the operative report but it has not been at all painful. They didn't use surgical glue, but that doesn't seem to be a problem. The incision for the balloon resevoir was higher on the abdomen than I expected, no shaving, but getting up from lying down or sitting is the only thing that causes some soreness in the abdominal muscles. The scrotum has not been painful, maybe because of how sedentary I have been. The scrotum is quite swollen so my penis looks uncircumcised and at times the penis goes turtle altogether in the swelling. I have heavy duty antibiotics 2x per day for 7 days, phone appointment in 2 weeks, and activation is set for 6 weeks. As one of you noted, and as my surgeon also noted, the urethra gets inflamed temporarily even though the device is not yet activated so I am soaking maybe one pad a day and have to really push to urinate. That is supposed to end when the inflammation goes down.

Thanks again for your responses.

BWJB