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I guess everyone recovers from the surgery differently. I now get up only 1 time a night (around 1:30 - 2:00am) and then I sleep through the rest of the night until about 6am. This is a good thing, but daytime is another matter. Once I am up and walking around I constantly leak. I assume this is because when I am lying down my bladder is in a position in which urine does not leak out as easily as when standing or walking. I'll just have to wait longer and see how it goes.
Thanks for sharing your experience with Dr. Slade. I am not going to mention my surgeon's name but when I first spoke to him he told me he had done this procedure more than 1000 times over the past few years with a success rate of over 99%. I guess I should have asked him to clearly define success rate. That sounded like plenty of experience to me.
Oh well. I'll just try to stay calm and carry on the best I can. Thanks.

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@leo3 I had Green Light laser surgery 11 yrs ago for my BPH. It wouldn’t have changed my mind, but no one said it would last only 10 yrs, the symptoms returned and I’m in need of another surgery . This time it was recommended and I opted for Holep as I’ll never need to go through another BPH surgery. The surgeon is at Yale New Haven Hospital Urology and he’s the gold standard there, as well as the entire east coast. I’m planning the surgery during the summer and hope it’s a better experience than I had with Green Light. It took me 2 months to pee without a catheter. 🙏