Recovery after marker bead insertion

Dave,

I had this dual procedure done last October, under general anesthesia (propofol). I was back to my regular activities a couple of days later, and I don't recall any particular discomfort sitting. I think I would have been fine with a 4-hour plane ride after a few days. A little blood in my urine, but that passed quickly. A little feeling of pressure as my body adjusted to the SpaceOAR, but that also passed quickly. No pain to speak of.

I was sore for about two days and put an extra cushion on my chair. The SpaceOAR gel has a pressure feeling to it that isn't painful but take getting used to. Bring some Advil or, if they're legal where you are, a THC gummy and you'll be fine.

Back in March I had fiducial markers installed with a local anesthetic (the local was the most painful part of my whole cancer journey), walked out the hospital 30 minutes later, drove an hour home with no discomfort. Had zero pain or discomfort after. I did not have a spacer due to the position of my tumor, so had a balloon for treatments.

not to make light of this procedure but I did tell my friends that the gold beads that were inserted increased my net worth by a small amount. I allowed my friends to call me " GOLDDINGER " after this !

Maybe they will do a remake of the 007 movie with a new name lol
Zzotte

I would have preferred general anesthesia. So I'm lying there on my back, legs up in stirrups and sucking on a canister of nitrous oxide after swallowing 7 of the 2 mg Valium pills. The doctor and nurses are having a go at my prostate via needles into my perineum while monitoring everything via an anal ultrasound probe, I can control the amount of nitrous and I'm madly sucking away until my vision begins to blur and I don't know if it's possible, but I think maybe I'm inhaling too much of the laughing gas and I might be solving the whole prostate cancer thing right then and there. I back off a little so as not to embarrass everybody (including me) by checking out in that position while they're in the middle of everything. You think maybe that all of this may have had anything to do with my blood pressure being elevated? Anyway, they inserted the three fiducial markers, but when the doc tried to squeeze in the SpaceOAR gel he bailed on the idea as he was getting blood pushing back into the syringe and this apparently bollixed the whole gel spacer deal. So the fall back is I had to use the rectal balloon every day I went in for treatment. Properly placed SpaceOAR gel would have prevented that, but from what I'm reading on it, maybe that's a good deal as the SpaceOAR itself can be a problem for some people. But one think I've learned after 72 years and change is I prefer to be unconscious when in the operating theater.