Dr. Chin Post-Op

I will be 2 weeks post-op next week and will be going for my follow-up in London Ontario with Dr. Chin, Any idea of what I
am to expect ? will the catheter be removed by him or a nurse ? will they fill my bladder beforehand to make sure the plumbing
is working correctly ? do they always have the pathology reports at this time ? I have been feeling ok and have been off any
pain meds for a week other than the catheter driving me nuts I am feeling ok and the incision if healing nicely..any incite as to
what I should expect would be appreciated..............thanks Zimmer

When I went back at 2 weeks they first did a scan of my bladder to check for leaks, Don't remember the name of the scan. Mine was fine so the nurse removed the cath, mine hurt and burned on the way out, most say it's just a weird feeling. As you always hear everyone is different. I hope yours comes out smoothly. My Uro was out of town so I had to wait another week for path reports. Hope all goes well, let us know.

Neal

My foley cath was taken out at DaVinci +7 days. There were no other tests, the nurse just deflated it, and it came out on its own with no pain whatsoever. My Dr. was out of town, so I got a two minute review with another partner. A twenty minute visit at the most.

It took several weeks to get the path report back, and they gave me a copy at my next visit.

Zimmer

I see from an earlier post of yours that you are to get the catheter out today, March 8 so you are probably on your way to London right now.

Since you seem to be having a good recovery other than the irritation with the catheter which David helped solve, the removal should be a cinch.

Dr. Chin had told me that no one other than him was to remove the catheter so he was there for the procedure.  Pretty simple, I thought.

I had no problems with the open RRP recovery and the pathology report wasn't available, so I only had a short discussion with the Dr.  I told him that although I certainly did not want to have the surgery, since I did decide to have it, I was glad he was the surgeon.  Even though it was open RRP, there was one very small incision (he has very small hands).  Other than that the Dr. told me to kegel, kegel, kegel.

Leaked a lot the first day.  Had the grandkids over and felt that there were now three, rather than two, in diapers!!

However, the leaking decreased a large amount the second day and I had no flow problems. 

At four and a half months I still wear a pad.  Mostly I leak just a bit during the day but there are days when for no apparent reason I'll leak a bit often during a day at times such as when lifting something, getting out of a chair etc.  Nothing a pad can't handle but annoying.

Your healing process will continue.  I'm surprised at the number of tweaks and twinges and muscle soreness I still have in the prostate area 4 1/2 months after surgery.  And the sphincter muscle must still be healing too since there continues to be small improvements in that area from week to week.

Good luck with your continuing recovery.

Skeener

     

My first appt with Urologist after open surgery was 16 days post surgery, which was planned date for cath removal and was removed by male nurse exaactly on time. He deflated balloon with a syringe thru cath port and had my lay down, and them slowly pulled it out, as some have said burning sensation but it was over quickly. My pathology report, very positive, was available 3 days after surgery, the same day I left the hospital.