Posted: 06/27/07 - 10:12 Post subject: TURP Recovery
I will be undergoing TURP this coming Friday. I am astonished at the variables in the recovery stories. I guess it depends on your overall level of fitness, and the skill of yoyur surgeon. Gloom and Doom stories are not condusive to a speedy recovery. Hopefully working out 3 days a week and neither smokeing in the past 6 monts or drinking in the past 10 years will speed me back to health. Think so?
I'm almost 60 years old and was experiencing frequent and weak urination. It was discovered I had a median lobe that was blocking the urethra opening from my bladder.
It's been 9 days since I had the TURP procedure where the doc removed the median lobe. Surgery went well and have experienced the same tenderness of the urethral passage, passing of scabs and stuff that looks like rust, and a couple of alarmingly large clots. I still urinate blood each day but there are long intervals when no blood is passed at all. My doc was very upfront about what to expect. The urgency issue is beginning to decrease and there are still a few minor leakage accidents. I'll try sex (the urges are definitely there) when I am confident it won't be a problem. I was back to work 3 days after surgery and only then did I find out most people take 1 or 2 weeks off.
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