Pre prostatectomy...$&@%# retention!!

Greetings, pleased to meet you.

My cancer pressed my urethra sufficiently to cut my flow down to a trickle before I got my biopsy. After I flunked the biopsy, I went for the first surgical date I could get. Got the surgery even earlier as the guy before me chickened out at the last minute.

After the catheter was removed I could once again urinate properly. May even change my handle to "I. P. Freely" (joke, that)

I had a growth or nub, that extended into the urethra, a physical anomaly. This swelled after the biopsy, I almost went the ER. The Urologist never mentioned this possibility, should have seen it on the TRUS.

The symptoms from this are what prompted me to seek treatment in the first place, needed a green light laser treatment to rectify. You might have a similar growth, which in my case had nothing to do with the cancer. Discovered on the consult for Brachy treatment

BTW the green light laser was minimal, just a trim of the offending "nub", done in between IMRt and prior to brachy. Even with my enlarged prostate, with a partial blockage of the urethra, my treatment focused on what was the best choice based on my my stats, for me not surgery. 2 years out, prostate 61cc to 29cc, no urinary symptoms

The exciting conclusion.....
First, thanks all for your input. I really appreciate every note.

Right after posting the original entry starting this thread, Saturday night, I peed a bit more, but in fits and starts. No sleep of course. The following day I had set aside for a 10-mile run. I started not to do it, because I felt so bad, but it meant a lot to get to this point before surgery, so I ran it. It was a slog, Flomax makes it hard, 90 degrees F. + high humidity, blah blah. Anyway, I drank a lot afterward and expected to pee at least some of it out. Nothing doing.

I wound up calling the URO on-call that night (Sunday night) and told him what my input/output was. He told me to get to the ER immediately. I tried to console myself that the cath would be a 'dry run' for getting my post-RP cath, but it wasn't very consoling at all.

But I lucked out. A couple of very good ER docs got me to talk a lot about the previous few days, and when I told them I wasn't in terrible pain, they decided I might be dehydrated. They US/scanned my bladder and got a 21. Based on that, they gave me 1000cc's IV fluids, and let that percolate until I voided, which they measured, then scanned again. I got Zero. They gave me 1000 more, and repeated the steps. Residual was reasonable.

I was sent home, crazy from sleep deprivation (3 or 4 nights without), but very glad to have not been cathed.

So I had not been peeing because my tissues had been soaking up everything I was taking in. I had probably been in an ongoing dehydrated condition for quite a while. I know that I'd been drinking less, because I was worried about the holiday from Flomax, and wanted to see the flow restored before I started drinking more. I had been running under these conditions. While being dehydrated no doubt made my running worse, it was also attributable to Flomax, so I hadn't considered it.

I've been hydrating like crazy in the mornings now, and so far all has been well.

But I'm not going to take any more drug holidays!

Good for you! That should take a load off your mind. It's also a very interesting story.