@charlesprestridge - good luck with your surgery and start those kegels now, please.

I’ll say that you’re in for a new lifestyle, but it’s not all doom and gloom. The first two months were the hardest with respect to incontinence, but the time passes regardless, so you just have to put your head down and it get through it. It does get better.

I’m still leaking quite a bit at just under five months from having my catheter removed, but I’m completely dry overnights and do have a good bit of control during the day. It’s just the stress incontinence and a sort of slow leak/oozing during the day that presents problems for me, but I’m working on it.

Good luck!