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Posted 4/16/2007 10:58 AM (GMT -5)
Telstar

In regards to your continence issues I can relate very well with you as in the way you discrbe your feelings they sound exactly what I felt and still do today sometimes and tomorow will mark 14 weeks since surgery. I get that warm feeling and wonder if I should go or wait and if I concentrate and hold it a while the urge will pass and allow me to fill the bladder more and then when I go I have a better stream. If I try and go to quickly my stream is not very good at times. It takes time to regain the feeling and I am much better now and it's getting closer to more normal, sometimes I feel no different and then other times I know I had some major sugery and things are not just the same yet. There are days as if it feels like I still have the catherter attached, like there is still something in the tip of the penis, kind of a prickley feelings I don't know if that's the best way to explain it but it's the only way I can think of. Then also there are times I feel strange sensations in the lower stomach but I just figure I am healing and it will be a while longer. My doctor told me it could be another 6 months or longer before I feel pretty close to my old self but at 4 weeks you are doing well and you will notice a great change by week 6 and 8 and so on. But in my experience you will hit a day when things feel differnt and not as well again, that's when I get back on the kegels hard again and it seems to help. It will get better everyday, it does just take time and our problem is we are all very patient as long as it's fine by tomorrow but unfortionatly it takes a little longer.

norskie
Posted 4/16/2007 9:22 PM (GMT -5)

Thanks Norskie, That was what I needed to hear. I am learning to forget time frames in recovery as it is mosts definatley different for eachh one of us. You hit it on the head a warm feeling sometimes its a false alarm sometimes not. I to am able to hold it and let it pass but about the third time I hold it back a few mins later I have to make the dash VIEW IMAGE. Im getting more confident each day and I guess I should never complain as having read some of the other posts I do now consider myself very lucky. Not that it cant happen any time but not do dwell on it before anything does happen. Very true on the good times bad times. At least I seem to have more good days than bad now, just seems evertime I want to do something fun I get a bad time VIEW IMAGE . But dealing with it. I dont feel so alone with the incontenance now that you posted again thanks.

God Bless

Posted 6/2/2007 10:35 PM (GMT -5)
June 1 st new thread started by Telstar (link below)   Hi ~ Telstar …Good to see you posting again….   I’m going to link this thread with your new one so the journey stays together for future newbies…   (Direct Link ~ just click on the title below and a new window will open!   Reminder … click on the REFRESH icon once you get there) To pee or not to Pee that is the question ? by Telstar   
Posted 7/4/2010 11:17 AM (GMT -5)
Hello Telstar

I am now about 5 1/2 yrs from my surgery but by reading your story, it helps me remember some of my personal trials and tribulations during recovery. We share alot in common. In fact, one time in the tub with no one home I got my muscles mixed up. I tried to pee but made a much bigger mess from wrong end. Boy was I embarrassed.

I finished my shower and really scrubbed the tub out good. Went and made a cup of coffee and sat down. So this is what I have to look forward to eh! Well like you, things got much better and I have never told another sole about that tub incedent and until this moment.

I still do kegels to this day with my pump cyclinder mounted to keep my penis tissue in shape. You know exercises. One of us will put the pump on and get low pressure. The target is just enough to hold it to my body while I am sitting. Many times we will start this after a joint bath because warmth helps blood circulate. I might even shave around my penis to help make a good seal. Then like when we were young I will bear down and try to make the vacuum tube bounce up and down as I do my kegels for 5 minutes and then remove the pump. Some of those muscles are the same ones that control flow and effect climaxes. This practice helps us build sexual tension to my groin.

We do this as a prelude to sex. We may not have sex that night but we both smell and feel nice, so being close makes us feel good. Because we keep my penis in good shape, if I take a half a Levitra, I'm am ready in less then 30 minutes with no pump.

Are things the same, NO. Are things OK, YES. Does she still love me, yes. Is lfe worthwhile, YES.

In Friendship Jim
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