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@freed58 - glad to share. One thing I wanted to add, for comparison…I had my surgery in January ‘26, catheter out mid-month, and was totally incontinent - we’re talking floods of biblical scale.
I didn't start weighing my pads (that’s how to track leakage) until mid-May, and at the mid-May point, I was leaking, on average, 550ml a day (in addition to whatever I was peeing out into a toilet).
As you can see, at 40ml, that’s significant improvement, but it does mean I’ve cut out every bladder irritant known to humankind (alcohol, fizzy drinks, caffeine, spicy foods, acidic foods, etc)…matter of fact, I was leaking as much as 150ml a day just a couple of weeks ago, and I think I tracked that culprit down to my daily very vigorous 2.5 mile walk. Troubling, since that’s the only exercise I get, and it’s good for both weight control and lessening the chance of cancer recurrence.
So…it’s a trade-off. I’m hoping that I can get that last bit under control, then slowly introduce things back a bit at a time in order to give my bladder a chance to adjust.
Should that happen, I’ll be the guy walking a 3k while eating a habanero burrito and drinking a lime-heavy rum-and-coke. 😆
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And I was thinking of a burrito for lunch just today. Well, I guess I’ll have to adjust my food habits, too. If you don’t mind a follow on question, you say you attributed the more recent leakage to your walks. This may be a dumb question, but I’ll ask anyway. While you’re walking, do you get a sensation of the urge to urinate but had no convenient place to stop, or does it occur essentially without any warning? I’ve been wrestling with the notion that the sole remaining muscle - the external sphincter - is a voluntary actor that somehow must be retrained to act like an involuntary muscle. Or, it needs to be trained to hold back the urine once the urge hits until we find a place to relieve it. Any insights on that are again appreciated. For the record, I am 68, healthy weight and reasonably good shape. Not sure how that all plays in, but I’d thought I’d add it.