Erection!!!!

Had cathater removed today. Fell asleep on the couch at about 10:00 PM.  Woke up about mid night and had peed all over myself and the couch where I was sleeping.  Escaped out of my depends and now as I sit here at 12:45 AM I'm afraid to go back to sleep. I had a long day and didn't sleep much last night so I was dead dog tired but I wasn't expecting this nor was I warned that this could happen. Has this happened to anyone else?  Untill I can get plastic or something to cover where ever I decide to sleep (not gonna sleep in bed with wife and have her have to put up with this) I'm afraid to go to sleep.

Post Edited (sparkymo) : 4/11/2008 11:50:34 AM (GMT-6)

Hi Sparky:  You're not experiencing anything unusual, especially upon having your cath removed TODAY!  You shouldn't expect to have any control right now, but things will improve as time goes by.

Thanks Piano. That IS reassuring. Did you slow down on liquid intake of an evening for awhile? I guess peeing is better than the altenative and that would be what they wanted me to wait around and see that I could pee before sending me on my way. I went back to the motel room we were staying and drank a couple of 20 oz. bottles of water. Peed a couple of time and we headed home. We had a 4 hr. drive home. Had to stop 10 times to pee. about every 20 to 30 minutes. Flow was strong and urine was clear as the water I drank. Maybe I over did it on the consumption of water. After getting home it has been about every 2 hrs or so that I get the urge to go.

Yes, Sparky, your situation does not sound unusual at all. The first day or two after catheter removal it seemed like I was going constantly. Within a few days I was doing fine with pads at night... I typically wouldn't leak at all while sleeping, but would wake up needing to go several times at night and needed the pad for leakage on the way to the bathroom. Hang in there - most of us start out similarly but many of us are fortunate enough to regain sufficient control to no longer need the pads. It takes some patience, you are still very early in your healing process.

Good luck and be well!

Thanks for your replys as it is reassuring. I have been feeling normal today with hardly any leakage. I was also pleasantly (well more than pleasantly) surprised that I woke up with a full erection this morning after I finally did trust myself to go back to sleep. Thinking maybe it was a fluke I did a little self manipulation a little while ago and got it up to full erection again. I know all of us has this as a major concern and I certainly feel fortunate. I called my doctor's nurse to see if it was ok to have sex since this is only 9 days post op. She said as long as I was the passive partner. I sure don't want to do anything that would hurt myself and will probably refrain for awhile as she told me there is still a lot of healing still going on down there. Anyway, anyone who reads this that is contemplating whether to have surgery to remove the prostrate, and is a candidate for laporascopic surgery, I can only say Dr. Androile at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis has done a heck of a nerve sparing job on me.

Sparkymo,

I am 54 and had RRP.  I am 15 days post op and am getting better still day by day.  I am leaking a little less when walking, standing, bending or twisting.  At night I am try and stop all liquids 2 hours before bed time.  I then have slightly wet diaper instead of going through two of them.  Up often during the night.  I didnt know I could pee that hard and much as at night.  Where does all this liquid come from?  I too had early erections with the catheter in even and had to talk myself out of them quickly.  I was told to manipulate by my doc to climax without partner at first, (day 6 on) after the cath was out.  I do it in shower for there is a lot of urine leakage.  Doc gave ok for sex but no acrobatics.  Doc said that the important thing here is the blood flow increase to the area for healing.  I take 50 mg of viagra every other morning to also assist not with erection persay but with blood flow.

Hang in there, I know I still have to remind myself how good I am doing and that this takes time.

 

Frank

 

I am on cialis. My prescription calls for 10mg. every other day. I am glad you enlightened me. My doc didn't tell me it was for increased blood flow to help healing. That makes sense though. I hope everything goes well with the oncologists. You hang in there.
Kenny

Congrats sparkymo,

Dittos to all the above, Sparkymo. You'll have times where you feel like you have to urinate very frequently during the day and you'll find that certain movements create spurts in your pads. We all go through this. Things will get better with time and repetition of the twists, bends etc. that cause the urine to let loose. Take it easy and be patient. This is a surgery (I'm assuming you had surgery?) that requires internal healing as well-- and that takes TIME. In fact, when your internal swelling goes down (within about four weeks post-op) you may backslide a bit in terms of regaining full continence, but that is normal too.
So, the recovery process can be full of surprises, but after about six to eight weeks you should be back to your old self.
Best to ya!
Tom

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