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Best wishes that all goes better from here forward.
Regarding incontinence: My RARP was in 2015. After initial recovery, I had persistent stress incontinence, going through 1-2 pads per day. Finally, in 2023, my urologist performed a urethral sling surgery (outpatient). I immediately regained 100% continence. Even after salvage radiation last fall, I am fully continent, except for a drip here and there (I’m 73, so no complaints). Still no need for pads or diapers. The sling surgery was a life changer.
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It’s good to hear the sling worked for you, even after radiation. That is unusual, I wonder if it’s because you had it done before the radiation.
At a recent Mayo Clinic monthly meeting. The urologist talked about the three different treatments that were available for incontinence. The sling and ProACT worked quite well as long as you did not have radiation treatment,. He recommended against doing either one of them if you had radiation.
The AUS was the only device recommended if someone had radiation.