I'm 55 years old. Back in August of this year, I ended up in the hospital for four days. Results, 104 temp, E.coli, sepsis, UTI, and enlarged prostate. Since there is so much free time in the hospital, I made an appointment with an urologist. I had my "after hospital stay" appointment with my PCP. My PSA was 25.2. I have always been under 4. Called the urologist and was able to get in sooner. They assured me it was from the UTI. Five weeks of antibiotics and PSA dropped to 5.2.
On Monday, Nov 3, I had a cystoscopy and ultrasound. Result, 72 cc prostate. I met with my urologist on Nov 5 and am scheduled for Aquablation on Nov 20. I'm told that I will have a catheter for 5 days, have it removed, with no straining, lifting, exercising, all of that jazz, for 4 weeks. I'm going to take it to the end of the year just to be on the safe side.
I don't have a lot of massive urgency to urinate, sometimes some dribble or if I don't make it to the bathroom in time have peed just a bit in my clothes. I hate using the urinal as I don't seem to empty everything out and inevitably will leak into my clothes. I wear dark color clothes for that reason. 99% of the time I sit to urinate and it feels like I'm going for a month. It's a bit painful and very slow. I urinate all under the bottom of me and end up having to wipe myself off. No issues with being woken up at night to pee, thankfully. I do have the feeling like I need to go but I really don't.
I read up on the Aquablation way before even having the cystoscopy. I always like to review my options. No way was I going to have a TURP. My testosterone level is already on the low end of things (had a benign cyst in my left breast a couple of years ago and had a painful drain line for two weeks). Not looking forward to a cath but I figure if I can deal with an infected drain line I should be ok (fingers crossed). I have been on Flowmax and Tamsulosin since my hospital stay in Aug.