Re: My BPH Story

Were you ever checked for retention? I also never allowed my bladder to
'feel full' but each time I was scanned for retention after urinating I had
200/300 mls residue. The potential for bladder/kidney damage from that and
the warning that I should be self catheterising was the clincher for me to
get a PVP.
Derek.
"Robert E. Yorke" <yorker@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Stewart:

I too kept a log! At least for the first night. My experience was
the need to urinate ~every 1 to 1.5 hours; the stream duration was
almost consistently of ~5 seconds....Once after a couple of hours
sleep that night the stream duration was ~20 seconds....sometimes
during the days that followed I had to go so urgently that I actually
soiled myself a bit before I could get to the urinal, but that
occurred only twice. In my case I conjecture that all the years I was
coping with this, I NEVER allowed my bladder to get full. I ALWAYS
was careful to go, whether I could feel the need or not. When I got
to where I was going, I also went regardless. Anyway it's been 4 days
since the catheter was removed and I feel okay.

I'm still going in the same way (`5 second events), but I will tell
you it is delightful to actually GO when I want to, vice just standing
there and urgently trying to induce myself to relax the urethra enough
to pass. I anticipate that my bladder will normalize in the same way
yours has, in a while...Evidently prior to your surgery you were
experiencing quite a bit of retention, I never allowed that to
occur...

At any rate, congratulations are due us; we DID it! We're fixed!(At
least for ~10 years or so...)


On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:18:07 -0000, "Stewart" <twoduncans@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Robert, I was so concerned about the number of times I had to urinate
after
the catheter had been removed that I kept a log. I have tried to copy
this
from excel but not very well. The 4 columns are, day after operation,
night
visits to urinate, day visits and total for the 24 hour period. You will
see why I was concerned as going almost 30 times a day was unbearable.
There was a marked improvement 3 weeks after the operation (see day 22)
and
since then the situation has improved immensely. I have not printed the
last of the table but now the figures read; night visits - 1, daylight
hour
visits - 5 giving a total for the 24 hour period of 5 or 6. This is an
incredible difference from what I was experiencing before I had the
operation.
I hope this information will bring you some cause for optimism.

Day
after op night day total
7 6 28 34
8 4 26 30
9 7 21 28
10 5 17 22
11 5 15 20
12 4 14 18
13 5 11 16
14 4 15 19
15 5 13 18
16 5 15 20
17 6 18 24
18 5 14 19
19 6 15 21
20 4 11 15
21 4 13 17
22 3 7 10
23 3 8 11
24 3 9 12
25 3 7 10
26 4 8 12
27 3 9 12
28 3 7 10
29 3 8 11
30 4 6 10



"Robert E. Yorke" <yorker@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Stewart:

When my catheter was first inserted there was no real pain either, I
could
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