@surftohealth88

Yep, that’s been my experience so far (very limited, admittedly).

I’ve been posting on a non-PCa forum about everything I’m going through, because there are several men on it in various stages of BHP & PCa, so there’s a lot of interest.

I gave an accounting of my catheter removal, which was so painless I could have easily fallen asleep…had it lasted more than 30 seconds, and I immediately had several people disagree with me, saying theirs was excruciating.

With the soreness and swelling - I was very sore the first day home (I was in the hospital overnight), but it wasn’t my incisions, it was more of an internal soreness, sort of like I’d gone crazy with a gym workout after being a couch potato my whole life…just a very sore abdomen and just up above my groin.

It subsided pretty quickly, no oxy necessary, but it took a few weeks before my tummy went from swelled and distended to its usual middle-aged slight paunch.

Everyone’s different. I barely felt capable walking at the hospital, and the next day wasn’t much better, but by the second day home, I was slow, but I could manage quite easily. Every day was a little bit better. By the time I went back up for my catheter removal eight days later, I was moving fairly easily, but still had some tenderness, especially in my perineum. I think I sat on a cushion in the car for a solid two months (those VW seats are stiff!).