Upcoming radical prostatectomy

Everyone has their favourite.
Buy one packet of a couple of brands of pads & try them out now.
That way, you won't be buying 10 packs of ones you don't like.
I like Tena.

And one small tip... don't buy any white pants. Get blue if you can.

You may be able to get free samples here: https://try.tena.us/pages/welcome

@peterj116 Thank you for your response. I appreciate it very much.

I went with the regular Depends for the week I had a cath and wore only the diaper and a loose fitting tee shirt. I draped a pad over the chair I sat in and those two worked fine.

You will need to get some shields that slip into your underwear for after your cath come out. They have thicker and thinner ones you will likely need both.

IMO Depends are the top brand, Tena is good too. At first I was leaking a lot, so wore a depends with an extra pad in it at night. I could pull the pad out if it was wet and not need to change the depends. A mattress protecting pad is a good idea too, You might get lucky and not have much incontinence. Good luck.

Hope and pray your experience is like mine! Only used one or two “diapers”. Continence returned quickly.

@jayhall Thank you very much.

I had no incontinence problems immediately after surgery. Yes, they put in a catheter. I had it for two weeks since my surgery was 16 years ago, today they leave it in for around seven days. . Never had any leaking around it, Some people do report that but all you need is a pad.

After I had the catheter removed, I did not have incontinence, About 10% of people report that.

I did start having incontinence about 10 after surger. I found the Tena Pads worked really well. Amazon sells them. After having problems with Incontinencefor 6 years, I had an AUS put in and now I don’t have any problems . I just mentioned that so you know there is no reason you have to live with it.

Don’t buy too many pads right away. You never know what your level of incontinence will be and what you need until you actually have that catheter out.