Re: Kidney stone post PVP and two good doctors with differing opinions

Dave...like Lawrence, I noticed you said "prostate neck" in your original
post, and I let it go thinking you meant "bladder neck" (I am usually picky
and comment on stuff like that, so it is good to see that Lawrence is also
alert).

BTW, be glad you only got up once last night. I never sleep - lol . Best
wishes, and let us know of any changes...Pete

ddebar wrote:
Lawrence,

Gee, I can't remember his exact words and I may have misquoted him a
bit. He did mention the neck of something. Maybe it was the bladder.
I did not think that Dr. Lin did anything with my bladder. I thought
that PVP was limited to within the prostate. After listening to Dr.
Sehn's comments on my prostate, I got the impression that the walls
had big bumps and grooves all over the place. He did remark that it
looked like Dr. Lin did it blindfolded. He also remarked that he
thought the procedure was incomplete. He even mentioned that he could
write me a prescription for a drug that would shrink my prostate and
that it is still a very big gland.
He clearly indicated that the reason I do not have retro is because
the part of my prostate that would cause that problem is still in me.
Dr. Sehn nodded in agreement when I told him that a TURP would almost
guarantee that I would have retro.

For completeness sake I should mention that for the first several
times I had sex after my PVP, I think I did have retro. I can't be
sure because I had a sexual partner at the time and we did not always
look. I can say that it seems to "feel" different when you have
retro. After several months it started to feel more and more like
the way it did prior to the PVP. I erroneously thought that it could
be trusted not to squirt anything. Then I discovered after telling
another woman that nothing comes out of me, that indeed it did
squirt, and she showed it to me. It was a surprise to both of us. Since
that time I think it functions the normal way but it does not
have the large volume that it did prior to PVP.
Since I had the kidney stone removed and wore a catheter for three
days, I find that my frequency of urination is up and more urgent. It gets
a little better with each passing day. I think I only got up
once last night, maybe not at all. I slept very soundly. I trust
that anytime you have something shoved inside you, that it will be
uncomfortable for a few days.
Dave
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Dave, please confirm the following for me:
1. Did Dr. Sehn say that you had no post-PVP sexual complications
"because the neck of the prostate was not removed and a lot of the
gland was still within me."
2. I did not know the prostate has a neck or when you wrote "neck of
the prostate," did you mean to write "neck of the bladder?"

Lawrence J. Bookbinder (have PCa & BPH)
http://www.ljblgb.com (my BPH story)


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