Back from my medical procedure
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Just remember, big prostate doesn’t iimmediatly imply big balls.
U have to grown them independently.
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The great news, is that it's not cancer. The good news is that they can treat it with medication, if it's prostatitis.
And now, for the not as good news...some of the medication can cause a cessation of lessening of the issue of some body fluids...Just sayin'. Another problem is that a medication can work for awhile and then not work (that one happened to me). Older docs would advise a TURP (look it up), if medication wasn't working well enough. But there are some new procedures out there, that can help the problem without resorting to a TURP.
Always talk over any and all treatments with your doc...
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The great news, is that it's not cancer. The good news is that they can treat it with medication, if it's prostatitis.
And now, for the not as good news...some of the medication can cause a cessation of lessening of the issue of some body fluids...Just sayin'. Another problem is that a medication can work for awhile and then not work (that one happened to me). Older docs would advise a TURP (look it up), if medication wasn't working well enough. But there are some new procedures out there, that can help the problem without resorting to a TURP.
Always talk over any and all treatments with your doc...
@Jolly I always hated TUR-Ps.
There are so many things that can go wrong that are not exactly surgical, but can be a gas-passer's nightmare. I've seen one patient die in the
Recovery RoomPACU after a TUR-P.Newer (at least as of 4 years ago) procedures using targeted laser therapy to shrink the prostate seem to be much nicer in terms of blood loss and intra-op and post-op complications.
See "green light laser."
If medications fail, that's what I'd go with, with TUR-P as a last resort.
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@Jolly I always hated TUR-Ps.
There are so many things that can go wrong that are not exactly surgical, but can be a gas-passer's nightmare. I've seen one patient die in the
Recovery RoomPACU after a TUR-P.Newer (at least as of 4 years ago) procedures using targeted laser therapy to shrink the prostate seem to be much nicer in terms of blood loss and intra-op and post-op complications.
See "green light laser."
If medications fail, that's what I'd go with, with TUR-P as a last resort.
@George-K said in Back from my medical procedure:
@Jolly I always hated TUR-Ps.
There are so many things that can go wrong that are not exactly surgical, but can be a gas-passer's nightmare. I've seen one patient die in the
Recovery RoomPACU after a TUR-P.Newer (at least as of 4 years ago) procedures using targeted laser therapy to shrink the prostate seem to be much nicer in terms of blood loss and intra-op and post-op complications.
See "green light laser."
If medications fail, that's what I'd go with, with TUR-P as a last resort.
One of the local guys has had a good bit of success with this:
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@George-K said in Back from my medical procedure:
@Jolly I always hated TUR-Ps.
There are so many things that can go wrong that are not exactly surgical, but can be a gas-passer's nightmare. I've seen one patient die in the
Recovery RoomPACU after a TUR-P.Newer (at least as of 4 years ago) procedures using targeted laser therapy to shrink the prostate seem to be much nicer in terms of blood loss and intra-op and post-op complications.
See "green light laser."
If medications fail, that's what I'd go with, with TUR-P as a last resort.
One of the local guys has had a good bit of success with this:
@Jolly interesting.
I'm always a bit skeptical of "implantable" devices, however.
That's not to say it's not good, it's just to say I'm skeptical.
I just asked my urologist friend. More to come.
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@Jolly interesting.
I'm always a bit skeptical of "implantable" devices, however.
That's not to say it's not good, it's just to say I'm skeptical.
I just asked my urologist friend. More to come.
@George-K said in Back from my medical procedure:
@Jolly interesting.
I'm always a bit skeptical of "implantable" devices, however.
That's not to say it's not good, it's just to say I'm skeptical.
I don't think it's the end-all, be-all. I think it's just buying time...
high five 
