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72 hours out from robotic prostate surgery ..
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I have decided to have RP, surgery is set for August 13. 2 days before my birthday. The doctor will be using a single port so I hope I won’t have abdominal pain as much. I have read the literature but I’m still not looking forward to the day I have the RP. My Gleason is 4+3, the biopsy showed 15 out of 30 cores were positive. Will be doing nerve sparing. The cancer is very close to the nerves on the left side but the Petscan indicates it’s still local and hasn’t spread yet. As far as work goes, he said I could return to work in a few days with restrictions but I don’t want to deal with a catheter at work. I had a catheter in 2021 after a bout with 8 and 9 mm kidney stones so I’m somewhat familiar with that. Just didn’t have the bag to deal with. Hoping for the best.
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It was also a 4+3, but they found that after surgery. Were they talking about you going on ADT for six months? Did you get a decipher score? With you having 50% of 30 cores positive means you have a lot of cancer in your prostate, ADT really may make a big difference in your future. I can’t tell you how many times people have surgery and it comes back quickly because they didn’t have ADT. The NCCN recommends six months of ADT if you are a 4+3. Not sure where your doctors are going on this, Just wanted to make you aware of it.
I worked for two weeks with a catheter and a bag strapped on my leg, starting four days after surgery. I was going from one office to another working on computer issues, ran a computer consulting business. I never had a problem with the catheter or the bag while I was working, It was actually sort of convenient. None of my clients even knew I had surgery.
Wish you the best of luck with surgery.