Posted 9/14/2015 9:50 AM (GMT 0)
Hello all,
I am new to this forum. I had DaVinci surgery in Boston on Aug. 6 and everything was going great--I was even planning to go back to my job as a high school teacher on Aug. 30.
A couple weeks ago, though, three weeks post surgery, I was laid low by excruciating pain in my abdomen. I spent five days in the hospital diagnosed with an infected lymphocele. I have a drain in my stomach still and it will probably be there for at least a couple more weeks. I understand lymphoceles occur only 3 percent of the time with PC surgery and become infected and need attention just one percent.
Has anyone else on this forum ever had one? How did you deal with it? How long did it take to drain? Did you need further therapy?
63 years old. My older brother had DaVinci in 2011
PSA 4.1 at diagnosis, 5.9 at pre-op in July (had been up and down in 3s for years)
Biopsy at UMass Worcester May 2015. Five of 13 cores positive, three 3+3, one 3+4. one 4+3
No perineural invasion.
Da Vinci surgery by Dr. Adam Kibel at Brigham & Women's Boston on Aug. 6, 2015
Nerves taken on left, spared on right
Catheter out in 7 days
Pathology show tumors on both sides, all reclassified 3+4
Stage T2C NO
Focally present tumor on right posterior zone (doc thinks it is nothing)
Follow up PSA test on Sept. 9 <0.02. Yeeha!
Lymphocele infection on August 29 required five day re-hospitalization and drain insertion
Virtually no incontinence
Some ED, erections but not real firm