Surgical Intervention in my Incontinence Problem

Six weeks have past since my AUS/IPP surgery and I am happy to report that I feel healed completely...no pain, no oozes and not even the slightest swelling in the nether regions.  Of course I still have the sogginess and that is to be expected.  My wife and I will arrive at Dallas Love Field at 0905 on Monday for the activation appointment with Dr Morey at 1115 hours.  A life-long friend will pick us up and we plan to spend the night with him and his lovely wife and return home on Tuesday.  Incidentally, he received the bad news about three months before me that he had PCa also.  He elected to go for radiation and is doing well except that he has an incontinence problem similar to mine.  He is following my case closely.  This will be my last posting until I return home and I shall report to all who have been following my case and let you know, positively or negatively, the outcome.  I am approaching this with optimism as I have always been a rather bright-outlook type of guy all my life and see no reason to change.  I will, however,  remain in a prayerful pose and be guided by that greater than me.  Until my next posting when I expect to be, hopefully, no longer

Soggy Salty and just be plain ole' Salty

I'm excited for you.  Just remember the first time your penile implant is inflated can be rather startling.  As was true with me, you will be glad to see it stand up, but it will take a while for it to get adjusted.  Don't be took too quick for intercourse, but don't be afraid of it.  Go through the procedure Dr. Morey suggests and remember to do it regularly. 

The AUS should immediately work as you expect it to work.  But remember it is not perfect either.  When he activated mine, I could not wait to rip that pad out of my drawers.  As soon as I stepped outside the office, I went right into the restroom and jerked it out with a song.  I didn't even wear any kind of a pad for a week or two.  Now I use a two very light panti liners side-by-side (one is too narrow for men).  They will do to catch the few little drips you will have during the day.  So here's praying and hoping for the very best for you!

Enjoy.

Gene214 

48 hours have passed since the activation of my AUS/IPP and 'nary a drip has dropped!  I have deliberately selected to wear the most whitest of shorts that I have in my drawer and, without believing my good fortune, I inspect them periodically just to find out if the tiniest drip stain can be seen.  Dry, dry, dry is the watchword and I couldn't be happier at the outcome.  At this point it looks like I have attained 100% continence.  For an old man like me that has been struggling for almost a year against the severe incessant and formidable side effects of RRP this is a memorable and earth-shattering victory.  I told my wife that it makes me want to go out into the backyard and raise my eyes to the heavens and whoop and hollar and give thanks to all those who by the grace of God has helped me through this ordeal.  This incontinence, this undignified incursion into a mans life has been swept away by the steady and guided hand of a brilliant surgeon...our own Dr Morey of Dallas.  He reached down and activated my systems at the appointed hour on Monday past and from that point on I have been in control of my life.  What more can be said except thank you, thank you, thank you!

My wife and I spent Monday night with my old childhood friend in Dallas and not wanting to soil his chair and bed I wore a pad as insurance.  (I was not fully converted to the truth and didn't want to take any chances.)  The next morning after my shower I donned a fresh pair of shorts without the use of a pad.  I was able to return on the plane to El Paso without any serious and embarrassing incident.  Needless to say I was overjoyed but still not a totally coverted believer until I gave it the "white shorts" test described above.  I do have one more test to run a little later today after it warms up a bit and I start some ground-turning work in my garden and place the system under a little more stress.

I have deliberately omitted above any reference to the IPP so now I will address it as succintly as I can by saying it also works!  There is relatively little pain in enlarging the cylinders.  To my surprise, the pump was not difficult to operate with my neuropathy stricken fingers.  Its a new experience to see that previously forlorn member become a full fledged part of my personality again after such a long wait.  Welcome back to life "Little Joe!"  I am following Dr Morey's guidance by stretching him daily and seeing what our limitations are in the "pursuit of happiness."  More to follow in this part of the saga.

"nuff for today...more to follow.  Thanks everyone for all the support received.  Believe me , it helped immensely.

Salty

Boy it's great to see you sign "Salty" instead of "Soggy Salty"!  Congratulations.  It takes me back to the day my devices were activated seven months ago in Dr. Morey's office!

Salty, there are two kinds of guys who can feel as you do today:  (1) Those who lost their continence way back when and went for a week, a month, six or eight months and finally became contient again (without any surgery). And even those guys can't enter into our special kind of gladness.  (2) There the guys, like us, who lost their continence, waited, keagled, waited, cried, gave up hope and finally heard of the Artificial Urinary Sphicter, thought about it, calculated about it, prayed about it, cried about "what if it didn't work either" and then finally... finally, as you and several others of us did, took the plunge and had that man-made device installed.  Wow!  What a relief!  So, Soggy, welcome to this very close club.  

And then there's the matter you barely touched on:  Rediscovering the ability to have an erection after months and even years of nothing... It's really "Happy days are here again."  Right?

Again, congratulations Salty!

Gene214