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Pelvic Floor muscle training post-prostatectomy

Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Apr 5 8:35am | Replies (19)
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No, you shouldn't because right is right and wrong is wrong, but many people just do partial Kegels for sexual endurance (not orgasming as fast). But for ED in general, I would say both need to be equal as there are two primary pelvic floor muscles, four in total and they are connected to all your core muscles. On men they are the most underworked muscles, typically.

I'm not a doctor, consult a pelvic floor therapist for definitive answers, but I hammered my floor repeatedly and properly and came out unscathed. I had nerve sparing surgery, and I was on tadalafil 5mg for a month ahead of time and even took L-Citriline supplements on the advice of the penile therapist (another urologist) because "it might help but absolutely won't hurt".

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edinmaryland | @edinmaryland | Mar 13 5:15pm

Thanks so much
I am mainly focusing on incontinence.
I am seeing my pelvic floor therapist tomorrow. My big deal is that for pretty much 6 weeks I have the constant urge/feeling that I need to urinate even after just emptying. This is very difficult as I am thinking about it all the time. I also have stress incontinence so getting up sometimes just walking causes leakage. So I have to think about leaking and I have to try not to think about emptying my bladder. The stress incontinence many times compromises my bladder training. I am supposed to shoot for every two hours, however if I am moving around some days, my bladder is not even getting partially full
My urologist prescribed gemtesa to help and I sure hope it does. Meanwhile, I will stay with the program and hope I can turn a corner in the weeks ahead.
I had the robotic assisted prostratectomy so hopefully I am one of the ones that gains continence but it just takes time. Being over 70 means things take a bit longer to heal I would rather have a broken leg but the good news is that this is better than cancer spreading

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