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. 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.
It's been 9 days since I had the TURP procedure. 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.
Hi! I am two weeks out of procedure. Turned 61 yesterday. Outpatient surgery seemed to go well- general anesthesia. My tissue growth was "center" nodule. Catheter for four days then doc removed in office after first considering two more days. I am on Flomax and Cipro (500mg.). Somehow, I developed a first time ever bout with "gout" symptoms 8 days out from procedure. Podiatrist had me take blood test and white blood count very high. I am staying on Cipro and see urologist in two days. I am drinking much water, void frequently --- sometimes pink, sometimes pink then clear, sometimes red with clot or scabs (ocassionally "pop" out). A few times decent flow (better than any before surgery), most times not. I find myself waery in afternoons and am taking naps and still ready to heit the sack in evening. Can't even think ---well, maybe, think --- about sex right now.
I am in generally good health, have "office" job, and try to eat "right" for most part. Would certainly like to exercise a bit more when mending from this procedure. Is anyone on a exercise program that won't damage or slow healing process? I get nervous when I read that some folks are several months with these symptoms.
I am in generally good health, have "office" job, and try to eat "right" for most part. Would certainly like to exercise a bit more when mending from this procedure. Is anyone on a exercise program that won't damage or slow healing process? I get nervous when I read that some folks are several months with these symptoms.
responding to Wiff.
I have had several Green Lights done to remove reforming scar tissue due to prostate surgery, but these all had to be done as an outpatient same day surgery requiring being put under.
I would like to get more information about how your procedure was done in the doctor's office. Was it done with local anasthesia? Was the laser a very large device which required several staff to assist or a small device that just required doctor and nurse?
I am looking for a less intensive solution that can be performed in the doctor's office on a more frequent basis to remove reoccuring scar tissue so I can possibly live without a catheter, which I have been wearing for several years since my surgery because of the scar tissue.
Any info would be appreciated.
I have had several Green Lights done to remove reforming scar tissue due to prostate surgery, but these all had to be done as an outpatient same day surgery requiring being put under.
I would like to get more information about how your procedure was done in the doctor's office. Was it done with local anasthesia? Was the laser a very large device which required several staff to assist or a small device that just required doctor and nurse?
I am looking for a less intensive solution that can be performed in the doctor's office on a more frequent basis to remove reoccuring scar tissue so I can possibly live without a catheter, which I have been wearing for several years since my surgery because of the scar tissue.
Any info would be appreciated.
I had the green light laser surgery about 2 1/2 months ago. My prior symtoms was extremely weak urine stream, frequent trips to urinate with not much volume, nocturia. I had these symptoms for a decade started taking flomax and it helped a little but i feel it made me tired during the day so i opted for greem light surgery. Procedure was fine they put me under. Had it scheduled for 7 am woke up with cather abou 10:00 am and was home by noon. never had catheter was not pleasant. Removed cather next day. Flow was good and strong. Had blood in urine for over a month but did do very physical work third week(roofed house). It hurt when i urinated for a couple months that has just cleared up. Still have high frequency of urination but stream pretty strong even after dinking a lot of coffee, lol. I did get retrograde ejaculation as doctor warned. Can sleep 5-6 hours currently without needing to get up. Recovery period is a lot longer then they suggest in ads. I will take uroxatrol on occasion i.ie went to football game last night and only had to pee once at game, that was over a 7 hour period however i didn't drink anything at game but did have two cups of coffee prior to leaving for game. Still get a dtrong urgency to urinate butit seems to be lessening, have heard others describe it. It is like operation removed obstruction with side effects as described. Will try and update as time goes by. One think it did do is when i do go to pee it's like bam its doneright away not like before where people are thinking wow it takes a long time to pee. lol
I just had my surgery 4 days ago, and right now my condition is worse than its ever been. I'm voiding every 10 minutes a dribble here a dribble there. I'm waiting for improvement of any kind.
My father had green light in October. He is still having a lot of problems. We just learned this week what went wrong. After the green light surgery his prostate swelled. It got so large it cut off its own blood supply. The loss of blood supply caused his prostate to swell even more. It got so big it pushed against his lower rectum, pinching it shut. He couldn't poop solids.
For five weeks he had diarrhea. Nobody understood it. He went to the emergency room. They did tests and sent him home. He continued to deteriorate.
He went to a new doctor. She put him on the Brat Diet which is supposed to be good for diarrhia. Unfortunately, the Brad Diet is terrible for Type-2 diabetics. He got weak fast and several days later he passed out in the bathroom. They called EMS, his insulin count was so low he was verging on a coma.
They stabilized him and rushed him into the emergency room where he sat for over 14 hours.
The next morning he got a colonoscopy (something similar with a smaller diameter). The doctor saw that a large portion of his colon looked white and he thought the tissue might be dying or dead. He gave my father a colostomy, closed him up with the idea of observing him for a day or two.
That night they gave my dad morphine for pain and a nausea pill. The combination made him intensely delusional and hyperactive. He had a gastric tube, three IVs and an arterial line. When the nurses left, he fell out of bed. He had just enough presence of mind to push his "call button."
The next night, they gave him the very same combination of medication and he went through the very same intense reaction.
From that point on my family decided that we would not leave my father alone for one minute at that hospital. The staff resented it, but we decided that it wasn't worth the risk of another medical mistake to spare their feelings.
The next morning the doctor thought things were not looking good and they took my father back down for surgery. This time they gave him a 50/50 chance of surviving. When the doctor touched his colon, though, it pinked up. It was the first good thing to have happened since this whole mess started.
Over the next week dad seemed to improve. We got physical therapy to work with him daily. After a week we went to a rehab facility.
Tonight, a month after being in rehab, my father is back in the hospital. It turns out that he hasn't been getting enough nutrition the whole time he has been in the rehab. He has been, for want of a better word, starving. Part of it, the doctors say, has to do with the colostomy. Food just passes through to the bag too quickly for the nutrition to be adequately absorbed. But some of it has to do with the rehab facility just not "getting it." He had been doing physical and occupational therapy daily for the entire time he was there, but his stamina hadn't been improving. It exhausted him every time. He had been losing weight, getting thinner and paler... At one point they thought he was anemic. If he didn't have enough iron, they explained, he couldn't oxygenate his blood adequately. That would affect both his ability to exercise and his stamina. They were going to do tests, but in the end, they decided not to ... Go figure.
So tonight he's back in the hospital. Eighty-one years old. Malnourished. Swollen prostate. Pinched off rectum. Mistake after mistake after mistake. I can hardly believe he's been put through all of this. It's hard to trust the doctors who have made so many bad calls, bad judgments. I mean, don't they know the risks of Green Light Surgery? Why didn't anybody recognize the symptoms before the problems began to multiply? Are there any real experts on this procedure?
If you have the surgery and get diarrhea, get your prostate checked. It could be badly swollen following the surgery. If you don't check it, watch out. This thing can cascade badly...
Of course, any information would be greatly appreciated – especially a source of good information re: the problems we are having. Dad’s not out of the woods yet.
Thanks.
For five weeks he had diarrhea. Nobody understood it. He went to the emergency room. They did tests and sent him home. He continued to deteriorate.
He went to a new doctor. She put him on the Brat Diet which is supposed to be good for diarrhia. Unfortunately, the Brad Diet is terrible for Type-2 diabetics. He got weak fast and several days later he passed out in the bathroom. They called EMS, his insulin count was so low he was verging on a coma.
They stabilized him and rushed him into the emergency room where he sat for over 14 hours.
The next morning he got a colonoscopy (something similar with a smaller diameter). The doctor saw that a large portion of his colon looked white and he thought the tissue might be dying or dead. He gave my father a colostomy, closed him up with the idea of observing him for a day or two.
That night they gave my dad morphine for pain and a nausea pill. The combination made him intensely delusional and hyperactive. He had a gastric tube, three IVs and an arterial line. When the nurses left, he fell out of bed. He had just enough presence of mind to push his "call button."
The next night, they gave him the very same combination of medication and he went through the very same intense reaction.
From that point on my family decided that we would not leave my father alone for one minute at that hospital. The staff resented it, but we decided that it wasn't worth the risk of another medical mistake to spare their feelings.
The next morning the doctor thought things were not looking good and they took my father back down for surgery. This time they gave him a 50/50 chance of surviving. When the doctor touched his colon, though, it pinked up. It was the first good thing to have happened since this whole mess started.
Over the next week dad seemed to improve. We got physical therapy to work with him daily. After a week we went to a rehab facility.
Tonight, a month after being in rehab, my father is back in the hospital. It turns out that he hasn't been getting enough nutrition the whole time he has been in the rehab. He has been, for want of a better word, starving. Part of it, the doctors say, has to do with the colostomy. Food just passes through to the bag too quickly for the nutrition to be adequately absorbed. But some of it has to do with the rehab facility just not "getting it." He had been doing physical and occupational therapy daily for the entire time he was there, but his stamina hadn't been improving. It exhausted him every time. He had been losing weight, getting thinner and paler... At one point they thought he was anemic. If he didn't have enough iron, they explained, he couldn't oxygenate his blood adequately. That would affect both his ability to exercise and his stamina. They were going to do tests, but in the end, they decided not to ... Go figure.
So tonight he's back in the hospital. Eighty-one years old. Malnourished. Swollen prostate. Pinched off rectum. Mistake after mistake after mistake. I can hardly believe he's been put through all of this. It's hard to trust the doctors who have made so many bad calls, bad judgments. I mean, don't they know the risks of Green Light Surgery? Why didn't anybody recognize the symptoms before the problems began to multiply? Are there any real experts on this procedure?
If you have the surgery and get diarrhea, get your prostate checked. It could be badly swollen following the surgery. If you don't check it, watch out. This thing can cascade badly...
Of course, any information would be greatly appreciated – especially a source of good information re: the problems we are having. Dad’s not out of the woods yet.
Thanks.
I had green light 2 months ago and had almost all the syptoms most of you are having. I was second guessing my decision of having the surgury but now in the last 2 weeks everything is great. believe me it gets better and better. I have my life back!!! good luck everyone. don't worry the burning and the frequent trips to the bathroom will subside. be patience. good luck
Had the greenlight surgery December 2006 at 49 years old. Wish now I had of done the regular TURP instead. The greenlight helped because I had trouble just being able to get urine flow started. I still have problems with weak stream, small amounts of urine, and frequent trips to toilet. You can just about set your clock for 1.5 hour increments 24 hours per day that I will be or need to be at a toilet. This is the biggest problem because I stay sleepy and tired. Also talked to another fellow from the same doctors office with similar results as mine. I dont know if the regular TURP surgery has the same problems, but anyone considering the Greenlight needs to look at the other options also.
Been reading the posts to find out why I have a lot of pain and the end of my urination. I am 60, had sugery 3 weeks ago tommorrow. My flow is great, don't wake up 2-3 times a night, only pass small amounts of blood once in a while. It doesn't hurt when I urinate, but after the bladder is empty it hurts. Is this normal? I have had BPH for 10 years, my Doctor is on the cutting edge of new techniques, in fact he was the second doctor in Va to do the surgery. I have a visit with him next week and see what's up. He told me retrograde ejaculation was the most common symptom, and its true. I am afraid to have sex with with wife until I see the doctor. All, in all, a tremendous improvement, but some after affects.
12 weeks out and still have an incredible burn evry time I urinate, or push during a bowel movement. Feels like a skewer going in through my anus and out through the tip of my penis. The first week of recovery was the best.
After reading this blog I was concerned about my upcoming laser surgery. However, I have had zero problems after surgery. My surgery wa on a Friday. Had a catheter all weekend. Took it out on Monday and was waiting for all the dreaded symptoms posted here. I had none and still one week out, have no problems at all. Was back to work full time on Tuesday. No urgency, no bleeding, no pain. So I guess it is possible to come out of this in good shape.
After reading this blog I was concerned about my upcoming green light laser prostate surgery. Surgery was done on Friday. Had a catheter in all weekend ( annoying but not that bad to deal with for a couple of days). I removed the catheter on Monday - that too was a non-event- and awaited all of the dreaded symptoms that have been posted here. HAPPILY, I HAVE HAD NO ADVERSE SYMPTOMS - NO URGENCY, NO PAIN, NO BLEEDING, NO NOCTURIA. I went back to work the next day and one week later I am still a happy camper. I guess you can come out of this in good shape. For me, a trip to the dentist would have been more traumatic! I hope that others reading this blog will have similar good results.
I had the holap green light surgery on July 21st. Had all the typical symtoms stated here with the addition of mild to extreme cramping of the sphinter muscle that starts with each urination and lasted from 10 minutes to several hours. All other symtoms have passed though I have strong urgency to urinate with little time to go. Actually had my first accident on my boat yesterday which was embarressing to say the least. I have spent hours trying to find information concerning the symptoms I have and only have found a couple of sites which provided little information. I am on 3 presciptions now to try to address the problem the pain and cramping issue and the only solution the doctor is providing is give it more time. Has anyone else had this issue??
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Thanks.
:-( I am 60 year old and about 5 day after lazer surgery and I am having the problems with frequency and I have very little flow. I go to the bath room about every hour for about 5oz. I only passed a little blood the first day and non since. I am now a lot worse than I was before I had the surgery. My Doctor also told my me that the Lazer quit before he finished the surgery and he needed 10 more minites to complete the surgery.He now want me to wait 4 weeks and see how it goes. I thought I had researched this before I did my surgery but at this point I not sure.
Good Luck
Good Luck
I had the surgery at our local VA on Dec 8. I am doing very well. The doctor gave me some medication for the urgency problem and for the pain while urinating. Helped with both a great deal. Also, there is very little blood in the urine now and frequancy has gone down. I am an exercise instructor and maybe being in good health is making my recover faster. I will know this weekend when I teach a bicylce spin class.