pa69-your reasoning doesn't sound at all crazy to me. After they remove the prostate, and the accompaning prostatic urethra, the bladder is stretched to join it to the remaining urethra. (Which is...
Jeff-until this minute I didn't know you had opted for the sling. From your post it sounds like it was a great success. Hey man, congratulations! Dry! Dry! Dry at last! Is there a prevous post of...
James and Purgatory-thank you for the kind words. You are two of those always in my thoughts. Pocketman-Yeah, I kegeled like mad for the first 6 mos. or so and then came around to the conclusion that...
Hi Guys, I haven't been around HW much for the past year. Nevertheless, many of you here have never been out of my thoughts. After my RRP in Tampa in Oct. of 2009 I am probably remembered here as one...
David, I just dropped by HW today for the first time since July. I'm glad I did because the best news I could get was to see you in rehab and feeling well enough to be there. It will take awhile to...
Tallguy, Wishing you a smooth surgery tomorrow and I will be anticipating your reports. Steve...
David, Whenever I start to feel grumpy or sorry for myself with my piddlin' little problem I remember you and others here who have suffered your misery with class and grace. You are going to catch a...
Hey Jeff, At eight months I feel like I'm only about 90% recovered to my former pre-surgery health and energy level, and that's without considering my wounded leaking urinary tract, non-existant...
Hey Jeff, I haven't been around HW for a while. I think I've gotten to the point where I'm trying to ignore my leaking and, like "Cool Hand Luke", getting my mind right for what I see is a long haul...
Jeff, I saw some great news there. 150ml=5oz. Isn't that about one pad/day? That's some great progress! I would say that is about where I am too if we're talking about "around the house or out and...
Jeff, Now I understand. My confusion came from your definitions of "cold" and "warm". What is cold for you is freezing for me. What is warm for you is cool for me. Of course the "jewels" are going to...
Hey Jeff, Boy, you have me scratching my head on this one. It got colder than a well digger's a___ here in FL this past winter and I never noticed a difference. Maybe you could try an experiment....
Jerry, I live in Bradenton, southernmost town on Tampa Bay. I tend to agree with Logoslidat and WorriedGuy that wearing the clamp might prolong incontinence. I found I became desensitized to the feel...
Logoslidat said--This is one frustrating poster. I personally am boycotting this thread, before I say something I shouldnt. Zen9 said--Sephie is exactly right: "[Y]our posts don't acknowledge any of...
Hello Jerry, I've used the Dribblestop as lately as day before yesterday. I find the urine passes the external sphincter and collects downstream where it causes pressure against the clamp and is very...
Mike, I'm unfortunately one of the "veteran" leakers around here. At 7 months I still can't play golf or do anything strenuous without losing it all in the pad. However, my condition was exactly like...
Darn, mine got 2 out of the 18. I think that's about an F- isn't it? Oh well, he got fired about two months ago anyway. Steve...
Jeff, I've vented about this previously, almost the same situation as yours. My Uro was 100% uninterested in my incontinence, told me at 5 months I would never improve, had no suggestions about any...
A fish out of water is bad, a Squid out of water is good! Ahhhh, if it were only me. The leakers know what great news this is. Way to go! I will trade my leaking bladder and great knees for yours,...
Tallguy, I want to add my heartfelt thanks as well. My understanding of the "sling" has gotten a different perspective thanks to you. Do you know of any anatomical/physiological reasons why your...
One other story....there was an article in all the local newspapers recently about a Urologist, in a town in the Fl panhandle I don't remember, who posted a message on his door advising all patients...
I'm starting to believe that there is a secret test for a Urology residency requiring that all new prospective residents take an "arrogant jerk" exam, and only those that score very high are...
Hang in there, how many guys here have said it's two steps forward and one back. Steve...
Jeff, I was going to say call the Physical Therapist that works with your Uro, but them I remembered she is that little of fountain of optimism who told you about a month ago that you'd never ever...
Jeff, Years ago I got smashed in the face with a baseball that left a numbness in the area of the left maxillary canine. Months later as sensation returned I felt a tingling, or vibration, in the...
Goodlife, Wishing you many more happy anniversaries! Steve...
The Sudafed also might help with incontinence since it will tighten up the external sphincter. Steve...
Jeff, I hear you about being blindsided. In my ignorance I guess I thought it would be like having a hernia repaired or something. Boy did I get that wrong. I really wish I had found HW BEFORE I had...
Tallguy, Back a few months ago when I was trying to "research" my way out of my incontinence jam, I ran across a study that found no correlation between prostate size and incontinence after one year....
Jeff, You got the solid rocket propellant and you can start putting the little marks down again. That's good isn't it? And you have the desire. That's good, right? Tell you the truth, my trimix was...
Bronson, Nobody knows the feeling of relief and happiness for a "zero" like the guys around here. Congratulations! Steve...
I love good news and ESPECIALLY from you! A big congratulations. Steve...
Jeff, That docking to the mother ship should have been easy if the thrusters were working properly. I think if you get the dose right you'll easily get into warp drive. Hopefully you will be going...
Jeff, Man, that sounds like a whole lot of trouble. Since I am going to get my trimix script filled tomorrow I obviously don't know squat about it, but that's never stopped me from giving an opinion...
Bob, It does my ole heart good to hear your story. Especially today. I had an appt. with my Uro this PM who barely found time to tell me my incontinence is hopeless and there is nothing more to be...
Hi David, Just curious.....why not sign up for that radiation rehab program? Steve...
Jeff, a big DITTO on your comment. Leaky, I agree about the infinite variables involved in this incontinence. However, as you seem to understand very well, the misery of leaking does cry out for some...
English Alf, You have a cheering section right here in Bradenton Florida. I know that's tough news but you'll get through it as have so many on HW before you. Best wishes, Steve...
Thank you Mavica for the hopeful reply. If you don't mind, how much were you leaking a 9 mos.? Steve...
Thanks for all the replies. Especially Geebra who said just what we wanted to hear. Have no choice but to continue the waiting game. Darn, I always thought I'd be dry by now. Steve...
Hi Guys, There have been several threads here lately about the sling procedure. At what point someone just gives up on his leaking and decides to do it seems to be a very individual decision that has...
Hey Floyd, I was exactly at one month where you are now. I am now coming up on five months. In that four month interim I have gotten to the point where I can walk normally several hundred yards...
"Still, 3.8 percent is a small number. Nevertheless, especially in the early days of screening, men with a reading over four nanograms per milliliter were sent for painful prostate biopsies. If the...
Well, I know this.....that the Ethicis Committee is investigating Charles Rangel and so far they haven't found any. Hey, Collins sounds like a nice place. Just picked up my daughter in Tampa, home...
New york, isn't that the state where Elliot Spitzer's cavorting with a ********** was actaully a HIGH POINT in the recent history of political ethics? PS I can't believe the site zapped that...
David, OK, there's one down and some progress. Your story about the catheter falling out reminds me of what happened to me. They filled me up, deflated the baloon, and.....my catheter came flying out...
Rich, I see you have gotten a lot of good advice. The "King" of leakers has already answered but I consider myself the "Crown Prince" so I'll give you some hope. Your chances of being pad free in a...
Rapids, Good for you. Keep us posted, especially the leakers like me, who may be just a few months behind you. Steve...
"And it can lead to treatments that can cause impotence and incontinence."This has to be the stupidest sentence in a really stupid article. My PSA reading led to a treatment that caused me...
David, hang in there. As miserable and dispirited as you feel there is always hope and a good chance things will get better. Pulling for you in chilly Florida, steve...