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Had Holep completed 1 year + 8 months ago with Dr Dora at Mayo Jax. Surgery included a Botox injection (ask about it). Was 69 athletic, very active. Managing BPH with meds but urinary urgency, frequency was increasing and becoming problematic impacting my life. Also had 2 instances of Acute Urinary Retention over a few year period both requiring ER trips. Afternoon surgery. Spent night in an on site medical hotel. If you can it’s good to have someone with you post op as you will be a bit loopy and have a catheter in. Next afternoon catheter removed. Wore adult diaper for 2 days then a thick pad for a few days and then a thin pad for a few weeks to absorb a bit of incontinance which resolved over time. Work on your entire course b4 and after surgery. I was healing great but suffered an unexpected setback at 30 days. Pain, urgency returned. Drs said stay the course as this sometimes occurs. It resolved after a week or so. Everyone heals differently and with varying time frames. Make sure you follow the post op instructions. Having the surgery gave me my normal life back. Extremely glad I had it done. Mayo was fantastic.

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@medinfo1 thank you very much for the suggestion "Had Holep completed 1 year + 8 months ago with Dr Dora at Mayo Jax. Surgery included a Botox injection (ask about it). ". Dir.Dora is my urologist a well. SO I will ask him .I do not have any issue of incontinence or urgeny . Just weak flow . (about 48 fows with avg max 11:81, average 5.6 and average volume 199 mil)