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Right after the catheter was removed, I never had good days, only leaky ones. Now I have good days but I can almost guarantee a leaky one by drinking coffee or alcohol, especially a couple of beers after golf. They both irritate my bladder but I'm willing to put up with it some days. I don't have such self-discipline that I can forego those drinks forever. But I have curtailed them, especially coffee. And if I switch to a half glass of wine, it doesn't affect me as much.

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I had the surgery on Aug. 3, at home now, all tubes gone, Cancer gone too per the Lab post surgery. I cut back on coffee too and only 1 Leo beer large one in Thailand not my usual 2. I get up many times in the night too so the diaper is not even that wet. Yesterday, half the day was good but after 3 or so, I have to get to the toilet within 10 seconds or pee is all over. I can go every 4 or 5 minutes too. I take a pill pee to stop it. Some days it does and others, NOT. I drink a lot of water. I pee a lot. It is hard to go out. I have a little pad when we do go out but I am stressed most ot the time out. If I roll over on my right when I sleep it hurts so I can't do that. I do those damn dinky exercises all day long too. WE will never be normal like before ever. That is what others who had it done some years back. Dinky looks dead too. This last month was the hardest and most painful of my life. I am trying to forget it now. I don't have to do anymore Lupron nor any radiation either. In 3 months, I do a new blood work and if PSA remains at 0 and does not bump up, no need for a PMSA Pet Scan or Lupron or radiation. I looked at the Hans Table and recurrence is pretty low for me. What word would I use to describe this last month, AGONY but it is slowly improving. Today, slept a lot but did start walking 2 days ago and that felt good but each day, I had to stop and just pee real fast under any tree I could find.