@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.