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Posted 2/4/2010 10:39 PM (GMT -5)
I thought I was doing okay on this, but it seems to have worsened a bit.

I've also been taking it easy but I hope to be more active soon. I suspect it will get worse with increased activity? Does drinking more fluids make it worse?

This is getting annoying.

I am only a few days post-cath.

I understand that it generally gets a lot better over time.  Is there anything you do specifically to make it better (I've been advised to hold off on the Kegels for a few weeks) or did your body just seem to adjust somehow and improve on its own?

Mel

Posted 2/4/2010 10:45 PM (GMT -5)

Also, another question I meant to ask on this topic. What actually happens to make it better? As I understand it, certain muscles (nerves?) that control this are removed (there are two sets and one is removed).

So, is it just that the remaining set gets stronger, or do other muscles take over, or...???

Mel

Posted 2/4/2010 11:03 PM (GMT -5)
Mel, if you're at one pad/day just a week after the catheter comes out, you're doing OK, IMO. I'll try to log in tomorrow & post more info. Hang in there!
Posted 2/4/2010 11:28 PM (GMT -5)
Hey Mel, it sounds like your doing great. I used 5-7 pads a day for the first 4 weeks after the cath came out. As I understand a male has 2 sphincter muscles. the primary on is between the prostate and the bladder. That is taken out during surgery. We then have to use the other sphincter. We have never needed that so we have to learn how to use it. It is partly training the brain to hold it. Also, would guess some healing has to take place because the surgeon had to pull the bladder neck down and attach it to the second sphincter. Be patient, do Kegels and a lot of walking. (walking is suppose to strengthen the pelvic floor muscles.) Good luck to you.

Ricky
Posted 2/5/2010 12:00 AM (GMT -5)
I was 40 and it took me three months to stop the incontinence. Surgery on 8-19-09 and stopped wearing any pads/protection during Thanksgiving holiday. Patience, without it you are doomed to fail and will make all those around you miserable.

There is a muscle in the prostate that prevents Urine from leaking during climax. Now its gone. Your body has to adjust.
Posted 2/5/2010 8:27 AM (GMT -5)
thanks ricky2 - never knew there were two sphincter muscles - just thought the second set got reattached after the prostate was removed - good pix of the setup is at:

http://www.ivy-rose.co.uk/HumanBody/Urinary/Urinary_Bladder_Urethra_Male.php

question - I would expect that the cowper's gland would have been removed as well - used to have a lot of precummmm when aroused when younger - had what seemed like that a few days ago .. no errrection , just aroused.. and that .. hmm... another question to put on the list to my doctor.
hugs
BRONSON
Posted 2/5/2010 8:43 AM (GMT -5)
Bronson, it appears that probably close to half the guys here still have the Cowper's gland, if just in a reduced form. I do, it still works as well as it did before.
Posted 2/5/2010 9:27 AM (GMT -5)
Bronson, I still have mine as well, and it works like it did before. Surprised me that it was left behind. During a very strong orgasms, it can almost fake you out like you are spewing something like before.
Posted 2/5/2010 9:50 AM (GMT -5)
Sniff.... I've got nothing. Oh well.... Must have left it in the hospital bio-hazard bucket.

Mel, You are at 1 pad per day?!?! Already?!?! Don't make me come over there! ;-)
Jeff
Posted 2/5/2010 10:00 AM (GMT -5)
One pad per day is fabulous. I'll employ a phrase when with comrades who are playing badly in golf: "No whining please". You are way ahead of the game at that rate. With 3 months our exactly from surgery, I'm at 2-3 pads tops depending on fluids, which I maintain, including merlot. I think the bladder irritation argument is simply post op. I am going to get back into much more walking, which I also do per golf, but right now our 2010 period of global FREEZING has another blizzard headed straight at us, so no golf.
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