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Quality of life, 2 years post RALP ?

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I sure hope I don't have to stay the way I am now on this incontinence issue, it irritating, annoying and frustrating. I do all the kegels exercises, about 360 a day. Hopefully can start pelvic PT in couple weeks. Doctor said he wouldn't send in a referral for PT until 3 months and that is needed for Medicare payments. Medicare won't pay for PT on self referral. I stopped caffeine and alcohol drinking. Didn't drink much alcohol anyway, so that doesn't bother me much. Was eating lasagna the other night and wanted a glass of wine, but drank a Sprite instead.
I believe it all stress incontinence. When I lay around on couch, sit and visit or sleeping there is no problem leaking. I get the urge to pee and make it to bathroom with few drips when getting up and first few steps. But through the day when I am moving around it's a different story. In morning I weigh pad and it's usually .1 to .4 oz. Once last week .7oz. I believe that all happens when I get up out of bed and a little stress drips. For whatever reason I am getting up 4 times a night and have a full strong stream! I stop drinking around 7PM - 8PM and go to bed at around 12AM. Don't understand how I pee so much at night, yet during the day it's all drips unless I been sitting and visiting. They say they have a mesh thing to put in and can do in an office visit, but doctor saying they like to wait a year. Suppose to really work, but have to wait a year. Oh well, I know people in worse shape and should complain so much. Just a real change if life style in short period of time.
Also in this heat high 90, feel like temp 110 I am starting to get a rash or itch.

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@diverjer -- I'm not a medical professional, so take my laymans comment with a grain of salt. When I asked my doctor about incontinence and ED before surgery, he explicitly stated my odds at 1 year. I assumed from his response that it's pretty common to take a year to recover. So I suspect your doctor doesn't want to do a procedure to address your incontinence until a year has passed as you may well recover without the procedure. I certainly don't know, but I thought I'd share that thought. Best wishes.