I'm 75 years old, male, fairly fit, diagnosed with Coronary Artery Calcification this fall. According to all the tests including spect and pet my perfusion and flow are good but there is significant...
Update: I saw the urologist today who would do the sling. First I met with a (young, female - not that there's anything wrong with that) resident who was a bit discouraging. Not quite saying it but...
I'm 71, now 2 years post robotic assisted prostatectomy. My PSA remains undetectable. My urinary continence improved over the first year or 18 months but has stalled or gotten a bit worse since. I...
Good luck, some simplistic thoughts: 1) Would it be an option to reduce your fluid intake? Right after my surgery i was trying to drink 2L of fluid daily and using 4-5 pads. My surgeon told me i...
I'm about 3.5 months post surgery. Continence is not great but it's better than it was - I'm using generally one pad on a quiet day, two if i'm very active and sometimes nothing overnight or just a...
Hey that's great - really though you are in VERY early days and you have a couple of months just plain healing ahead of you. Don't expect too much and go easy on yourself....
@Ron42661: I'm a BIT ahead of you. Maybe not that dramatically. One thing that made a difference for me was bigger pads - i know it sounds obvious but the Tena level II pads i was using always made...
Just to join the party, my surgery was 17-10-4 so I'm just about 3 months post catheter. I was using 4-5 pads the first week or so and over Christmas chasing my grandson around I was still wetting...
Thanks for the encouraging words. So I'll just keep plugging away at the kegels and hoping the dribbling gets less over time. I sure appreciate the overnight part - I got up to urinate half a dozen...
hi, i'm 69 years old canadian. I was diagnosed with gleason 6 prostate cancer in 2013. i had robot assisted surgery oct 5 after my PSA went to 10 and MRI showed pirads-4 lesions. Catheter came out...