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Aquablation: Post-surgery expectations

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@icorus1959
Thank you for the reply. I went into retention the day after I wrote this and have a bag attached. How was it wearing a bag for 4 months as that is about what I would need if I had to reschedule. Did you get any utis or infections while on the bag? How often did you have to change it. None of this was explained to me when they put it on. I’m going to see my uro on Tuesday . Thank you for you continued help.

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@albiet I went to a bigger bag nightly. Going from one to the other took about 15 minutes. I completely changed my leg bag weekly. I'm pretty small...5'5"...so I wore a 1 liter bag. There are good one's on Amazon. I can recommend the brand I like best, if needed. During the four months I picked up two infections...probably from showering. The second, I was infected with Seratia...which is common in shower stalls and antibiotic resistant. There are a couple of antibiotics that will treat it, and my urologist recommended I eat yogurt daily. Stonyfield Farms probiotic strawberry mixed with healthy oats became breakfast every day. I went to work every day...which included 1 hour drives both ways.

My surgeon operates two days per month...5 aquablations per day. The other 4 were transferred quickly from PostOp to the orthopedic ward. I was in PostOp for hours until a bed opened in the surgical ward...where I was in quarantine. It was a blessing in disguise...I received awesome care. I stayed in the hospital an extra day because of bleeding and received probably 40-50 bags of saline per day. I had to wear a bigger drain catheter for almost a week because of the bleeding. The was the hardest part...as the bladder spasms were vicious...and the spasm meds did nothing to control them.

On Day 3 after surgery I passed a large clot that fouled the line. I was worried I was going to need to go to the ER to have it cleared...but a spasm cleared it.

Hope that helps. If you want to talk I will send you my number. Had I know anything about any enlarged prostate before I got shut down...I would have completely skipped the Tamalosin and Finesteride and gone straight for aquablation. That would have cut things down 5-7 weeks. If my prostate grows back and again becomes a problem (God forbid)...I will go straight in for another aquablation.