Good morning everyone my schedule surgery is for December 7th I am having my prostate removed any advice would be really helpful like when should I start with pads and exercise the pelvic area
The closer the date comes the more nervous I get I was pretty good the last couple of weeks went to work like nothing was going on but now I'm starting to realize close to that this is reality any advice would be helpful I'm ready to tackle this monster and beat it down
Greg,
I know nothing about surgery. So, all I can say is G'Luck, and I wish the best for you!
Your age...gleason score...etc would be helpful..
My prostatectomy was on Sept 21 and when my doctor tried to remove the cathater, it wouldn't come out. He said it would come out by itself, and it did, but it was in for 4 weeks so, at first, I was soaking the pads. Not fun.
That beeing said, I am still going through a lot of pads, but they are not soaked like they were so things are getting better.
The actual surgery was a breeze and I was out of the hospital in 2 days.
Still too early to know about ED problems, but my brother had the same surgery about 2 1/2 years ago and he is fine now.
Thank you
Hi Greg, my husband had his prostate out on 9th November. Didn't need pads till catheter came out. First two days just poured urine,not what he expected after being told it would be like stress incontinence. You cannot do your kegel exercises till the catheter has been taken out. Night time appears dry at mo but still leaking in daytime. Early days yet. His surgery was Robot assisted and recovery was very good out of hospital 2 days post op. Would have been the following day except he had low blood pressure. Went back to work two and a half weeks later. As to ED, only one side of nerves left. got the incontinence and ED clinic on 20th. Find out results from op on 10th Jan. Good luck. Xx
Greg,
my best advice is: "Enjoy sex as much as you can." And I will repeat it: "Have sex as much as you can." After surgery will never be the same.
And also, sex is relaxing ant that is what you need the most in these days before surgery.
Good luck with your surgery and speedy recovery!
MK
This may seem a bit personal, but ED is not the end of the world. Even before my surgery, my wife and I had a couple of "toys" that we used during our love making and within 2 months of my surgery, we were back to having fun in the bedroom. Just because I'm not able to perform right now, it doesn't meen that I don't get excited and can't have fun.
If anything, the fact that I can't finish means that I can go on for ever pleasing my wife until she is quite satisfied.
Hi greg
I had open radical prostactomy non
Nerv sparing on 9-2-16.
I am 66 fit for my age( hoby scuba diving)
Before opp psa 14.8 gleason 8.cancer in both lobes not broke out of prostrate
After opp margains clear prostate lymph nodes seminal vesicles removed
Result gleason 9 T2C. No mo .
My last 3 psa tests have all been the same
0.050 so have been very lucky . I only whent for psa test in first place because
My buddy tolled me he had prostaite cancer.
I was in hospital 4 days walking after 3 days .been 9 months now i still use pads but one lasts all day only slightly soiled
I can hold about 15 mins for toilet.
If going out for day i allso use uridom
With leg bag they are no trouble to use
And save you needing togo . Do pelvic
Exercises when catheter is out . Doctor
Gave me some pills to slow down urge
To pee.dont know weather erections wiil come back but not woried. Better than having cancer😊 Hope all goes well for you
Good luck
Thank you
I like your attitude!
You will be sent home with a cathater in place for probably close to 2 weeks.
You won't need pads until that comes out but then you will need a lot of them for the first while. I didn't do any exercises after because up until recently, any kind of activity would cause me to leak like a sieve. Things have gotten better in the last couple of weeks so I might start doing them to speed things along.
I know its not Rick, had to reassure my hubby that we can get through it and as the doc said there are things they can do to improve it. I have got him tihnking the most important thing is getting a low PSA score when we go back in January, everything else we can deal with, and as you say you can still have fun! x
Thanks
Thanks
Have you had a PSMA PET scan recently? This will show if there has been any significant metastasis to the skeleton. If there has been a small metastasis, it will not show it.
It is important to have such a post op scan in addition to post op PSA tests.
To summarise what others have said, speaking as someone who went through a robot assisted radical prostatectomy:
* before surgery you may choose to learn some pelvic floor exercises;
* after surgery a catheter will be in place for 7-14 days and you'll be peeing into either a large bag or a smaller leg bag;
* after the bag is removed you can drive a car;
* you will notice you will be urinating without having much control over it;
* you will wear pads, high absorption ones, for the first month or so and less of them as time marches on;
* three months on I am on one light pad per day. On days I chose not to wear a pad, I find I leak involuntarily and assume that it's going to be some more weeks before I am comfortable giving up the one pad.
Good luck.
Hi barney i had full body nuclear bone scan before prostactomy
It only showed one large blob were my prostate was every thing elswere
Was clear.i could actualy see the skeleton image as i slowly came out of the scaning machine.i looked at some images of nuclear bone scans on the web.i would have been scared if they would have been white spots all over. All the best vin
This might seem like a strange question, but do you have a strong stream when you urinate now? It's been about 2 1/2 months since I had my surgery and I am just now getting a somewhat steady flow, but it is more of a trickle than a stream. If I try to force it, it makes little difference.
Intersting. As I understand, such scans will show if the cancer has spread in a big way to the skeleton. But if it spread in a very small way, it will not be seen on a scan.