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Posted 1/2/2010 3:31 PM (GMT 0)

Well guys, I am moving along hopefully toward dry.  I am using 3-4 pads during the day and one at night with almost no leakage. My question is about the urine stream. Since the catether was removed, I pee like a sprinkler, I have no steady stream. Can anyone tell me if and wen the steady stream wil return.  I have to sit to pee otherwisw I will be cleaning the bathroom every time I go.

Thanks for your insite.

Len rolleyes

Posted 1/2/2010 3:40 PM (GMT 0)
Len,

Yeah I can remember early on after Cath that there was a sprinkler effect going on at times -- usually when bladder was not so full but it was giving the GO! signal anyways.

But for the most part (and especially in the last 6 months or more) it's just been one firehose gusher after another. So that's one GOOD benefit of surgery.

I had BPH for years before the PCa came along so I for one really appreciate the On-Demand method of peeing now. None of this waiting for the darned prostate to give the final signal anymore. In some respects (like that) Prostates are highly overrated and a nuisance.

Jim
Posted 1/2/2010 4:43 PM (GMT 0)
I'm recalling that it took at least 6 months post-op for the urine flow to become more directional, though there are still times when I'm spraying not only the urnal but the floor beneath.  I do believe it gets better over time, and each of us progresses a bit differently.
Posted 1/2/2010 7:32 PM (GMT 0)
Len,
Here's an experiment to try. (Do it when your wife isn't home.) Next time you need to pee,. stand in the shower and blow your nose - hard. I found that my stream increases so much I can swing the soap on a rope. That info might help you decide if you need to do anything about your plumbing.
I leveled off at 3 pads per day and still leak 400 ml daily. But when I pee, I pee.
Good luck,
Jeff
Posted 1/2/2010 7:58 PM (GMT 0)
For the first months after surgery my stream was about 25% of previous -- very frustrating. Now at 8 months I am at about 60% -- enough so that I can live with it. My uro explained that when he suchers the bladder to the urethra he knows that the opening will expand on healing.

By the way, an appropriate subtitle for almost all of Jeff's posts is
"While your wife is not home"
Posted 1/3/2010 4:52 PM (GMT 0)
Geezer,
Just for the record, she willingly left for the weekend when I hosted the GFMPH weekend gathering at my home 3 months ago. There are some things you can only do when no one else is around. It's fine - As long as I clean up the mess before she sees it.
Is it any wonder we remain happily married for 34 years?
Jeff
Posted 1/3/2010 5:00 PM (GMT 0)
Jeff, simply sounds to me like you know what side your bread is buttered on. lol.
Posted 1/4/2010 11:25 PM (GMT 0)
Guys, there is an in-office procedure the URO can do that might help although it is quick iti is no fun. The Uro uses the numbing stuff then inserts a small rod that at the time looked two feet long. A small one at first then the next one is bigger and so on until it is larger than you might think. You will then pee like you have never peed before. Right after I could fill one of those sample cups in one second.
Posted 1/4/2010 11:36 PM (GMT 0)
wd, that is known as a "hard dialation procedure". Had that done once awake in the middle of an emergency situation, extremely painful with no sedation, and had it done twice more after being put under. The only trouble with dialation procedures is that they often don't last long ,the results I mean, depending on what causes the blockage, they can narrow back down.

david
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