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What is a Prostatectomy Like?
It is living hell
You wear a catheter for 7-10 days after surgery,
Then the fun begins.
You are now incontinent, and you must wear diapers, you actually leak pee,
It at times squirts out of you. You have constant urge to go meaning trips to bathroom every hour or less.
You have to deal with constant leaking, ED, potential UTIs.
Embarrassing and
Humiliating absolutely terrible time.
The care team will tell you that the
Incontinence last 9 months or more.
Remember prostrate cancer is slow growing
Surgeons will encourage surgery and your cancer will be gone but your life has changed forever because the incontinence is a daily challenge. Assuming you regain continence then you have to deal with ED.
Research as much as you can before making the decision to have prostatectomy. It is your body and your life afterwards.
But you potentially traded quality for quantity of life.
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UCHealth, Highlands Ranch, Colorado.
Where did you have the surgery done?
Oh, does he? lol
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1 ReactionNot to nit pick, but we really can’t SEE him turning his pecker on and off like a spigot, we just hear him narrating. But I did this TOO and it didn’t matter a few hours later…
I’ve seen that guy on TV! He does commercials for automobile car mats and Medicare Advantage health insurance😆😆
Found him.
Miracle starts around the 6 minute mark.
I had the same experience as the guy in the said video. Cath out, not an issue since. I know not all guys are that lucky, but I was.
Peter, that catheter guy was a stuntman - trust me on this. I’m continent now but as my wife was driving me home from catheter removal I told her how easy it was and how I peed in the bathroom afterwards just like normal.
Getting out of the car 90 mins later I discovered that I was soaked in urine up to my waist snd down to my knees….never felt a thing!
At home, I showered and dried myself and as I stepped into the bedroom I began to gush urine all over the floor in front of my goggle-eyed wife….sadly, no one to video the event.
We take whatever small victories that we can get.
I finally have an appointment next month to see another urologist, to be assessed for an AUS.
Cystoscopy... flow test... I don't care. Whatever ends this nightmare.
You have no idea how just getting an appointment date has lifted my mood.
Now to start another bladder diary.
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2 ReactionsI've seen worse.
Before the biopsy, I watched one of those, so I knew what was going to happen.
I watched the prostatectomy surgery before I had mine.
It's helpful to see these things (for me, anyway).
There are lots of videos intended for med students etc.
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