Anesthesia after effects

Hi Mpac. Did you have any additional treatments? Like say....ADT?
Did you maybe quit smoking around the same time? Taking any additional meds?

Long term SE's from anesthesia do happen, and one of them is as you describe. Sometimes it resolves over time, and sometimes not. You certainly can request your OR report, they make for interesting reading.

halbert: Would the OR report be available through my doctor or hospital?

Since my surgery 1/29 I have had a horse voice. Has anyone else had this issue? Wondering if I will ever fully get my voice back....

Yeah, mine sounded like a cross between Barry White and Louis Armstrong.....

Oh yes, I had the voice issues from a few days after surgery. A lot of these RPs go on 4+ hours(mine did). That's along time for a tube to be in place irritating the vocal cords. And it might be in even longer if they can not get you awake enough and breathing without assistance by the time surgery is all over and it is time to go to recovery room. And there is another possible contributor to sore throats as well as hoarseness: if, at the start of your anesthesia, you proved difficult to intubate, requiring multiple attempts. They can only try that for maybe less than a minute before the O2 Saturation monitor alarm starts screaming at them, so they have to pull out, ventilate you with a mask until your nice and pink again, the go in and try again. So a sore throat or voice issues is not uncommon after intubation, but almost always it clears up by itself within a few days to week or 2 max.

As for being different, or getting your OR records to see if anything happened, there are all sorts of things related to RP that could change the way a man feels. I do suppose that if you got your record and saw that something major had gone wrong, something that could have led to brain injury such as cardiac arrest or prolonged hypoxia due to failed intubation attempts combined with inability to ventilate(the rare but dreaded "can't intubate, can't ventilate" scenario), I doubt you are going to see anything on the surgery or anesthesia records that will tell you anything useful. But, did your family get the traditional call soon after you went to the OR saying you were asleep and surgery started and all was well? If so, it's highly unlikely anything out of the ordinary happened. Not impossible though.

I had 4+ hours of general anesthesia for RP and a couple of other general anesthetics, and I did not notice any issues past a couple of days that I could blame on anesthesia. I probably did have a touch of depression post op, when I would consider some of the changes, on and off especially during the 1st few months. But I can not blame that on anesthesia. But who knows, anything is possible, especially with the 1 in a million situations, and even more so if something went major wrong.

You mention "not quite the edge". What about your testosterone levels?(just a shot in the dark)