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Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) Surgery Options
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@rfherald Good luck on your continued recovery. I like you have been undecided but leaning towards AquaAblation. I found a urologist in the area that has done about 20 of them, being a relatively new procedure. I have spoken to someone who had Rezum and he was happy he had it done but it took about 6 months for it work as hoped, he's good to go now. I have been OK with the condition for now, in fact the last question on the IPSS (someone had a sense of humor when naming this), where it asks how you would feel if you spent the rest of your life at the current stage of BPH and I was fine for the most part, so I do have some time, but a procedure is definitely in my future.
Rf, if you could keep us updated on your progress that would be very appreciated and thank you for the video and links, very helpful.
Bill
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I go back and forth on procedure versus status quo. I am 80 years of age. Tamsulosin works (morning and evening plus 2 ibuprofen at night).
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Will do. The procedure was painful even with Valium. But the pain subsided quickly and completely gone in two days. The catheter caused great pain until I was able to limit tubing movement by taping it to my leg. On the third night after, I slept eight hours! It's been years since I've had eight hours sleep! I almost asked for a permanent catheter - the two liter bladder let me sleep through the night. The procedure bothered the prostate so it grew making urinating slow, frequent and painful. The pain was caused by the catheter. The urine remaining in the bladder was 260 ml, 60 ml over the limit. So I have to recathiterize, self-catheterize, or hope I'm below 200ml this morning. More next time.