dry at night, not so much during the day

I will share my experience I had to guit drinking coffee for about a month and watch how much water and juice I drank in the evening but nite time was the best for me and I have read on of many guys saying the same thing that they were dry quickest at nite. i offer everybody this same advice as I felt it helped me more than the kegals start walking and then walk some more and then walk some more at first it will be frustrating as you can feel yourself getting the pad wet but soon the day will come when you will have walked for a hour and not leaked a drop!!! Hang in there it gets better every day!!! And keep walking!!

Pgpt,

I am 3-1/2 weeks post RALP and 4 days post cath. I get up 3 times per night feeling a drip and get up and can make it to the toilet, okay, and then pee like a 17 year old. Can you stop your pee in stream and hold for 10 seconds or so. Suppose to be good training?

During the day for the first 2 days, every time I was vertical I was dripping, too much for pads. So, I took old underwear and covered my self and replaced every so often. Dripping a lot less on day 4, however.

While sitting I didn't have too much trouble from day one. From what I was told, the longer the cath is in the harder it will be to tell when you need to go and of course harder to hold it, requiring more trips. The bladder muscles are weaker and have to rebuild.

This may sound obvious, but wear pads at night! You are still very early in this process, so try to be patient and enjoy incremental progress when it occurs. I wan't dry until eight months post-surgery. The return to continence was not entirely steady. I didn't regress, but progress was episodic. I'd be on a plateau for a while and wondering if anything was ever going to change, and then for no apparent reason I would get better. The biggest and most dramatic improvement came after about 10 weeks. I'd been leaking terribly up until then, and then over the course of a few days I improved immensely. Good luck!

Yes, this is all normal. It is a very good sign for future healing that you are dry at night. But the healing required, and/or strengthening of the sphincter with Kegel exercises, can- for some- take weeks or months.

Most of us in this thread with close surgery dates have similar, though not identical, experiencies about this important urinary issues. I guess the great news is that we are not prrmanenty dripping and we are clearly improving every week. We will eventually be dry or at least acceptably close to it. In fact I am in the verge to be socially continent right now after these very few weeks withouth cath. Knowing other not so rare worse outcomes, we should not complain at all.