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@jasonfarmer

I am on the 4th day after my prostate surgery, I have a long road to recovery, I know, but no regrets, except for not requesting more medication for the 24 hours in hospital. Now home and mostly only on only Tylenol. I was only a 3+3=6, PSA 5.2 but dicipher test was high risk 93 percentile. Surgeon said all looks good he saw no evidence of being outside of gland, no lymph node removed and nerve sparing went well. Time will tell for sure but hopefully this is a cancer free 59 year old man with a full recovery. If not, I will deal with it as it comes. Catheter is hard to deal with. It hit me last night, 2 am I was only 3 day in and 7 more long days to go with this torture device, put tears in my eyes. I will make it and all will be ok. All said No Regrets.

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Postop recovery will get easier.
Catheter: you will become more comfortable with it. Catheter cleaning videos helpful to avoid infection. I only had large night bag; kept it in a plastic cleaning bucket by my side.
Walked 20 - 30 mins in 5 min stretches around the house.
Kegel exercises after catheter removal. PT helpful to me.
I strictly observed lifting restrictions for 2-3 mos.
You will get better soon.
RP in Aug 2022. 72 yrs old. My surgical recovery was excellent.
Hopefully you will get a great result.