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Aquablation: Post-surgery expectations

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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.

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It was interesting to hear you picked up a Serratia M. Uti while you were catheterized. I had an aquablation and a few months later they did a minor turp followup to fix some significant retention I was still having. I had a catheter for a week and the day after the catheter came out i had a fever so we did a culture and i too had a uti with that bug which most likely was acquired in the hospital. How soon after your catheter was placed did you get the Serratia Infection? That bug is a bit worrisome since as you mention it is resistent to many antibiotics.