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Has anyone experienced these weird post op symptoms:

I am now 3.5 weeks post op and:

- I have elevated blood pressure. Had 120/80 pre op. Ever since right after surgery it's been around 140-145/85-95.

- I sweat like crazy. Every night I wake up soaking wet from sweat. Never ever did that before.

- I don't pee as much as I normally would considering how much I am drinking. And the urine seems dark yellow no matter how much water I drink.

I didn't bother about this at first. Thought it was reactions to pain, stress, pain killers etc.
But it's been 3.5 weeks now and I think these issues should be gone by now. Haven't taken any pain killers for 5 days.

Just interested in hearing if this happens to others as well, or if it's time to go see a doc...

Thanks in advance for any feedback.

I'm not sure if I can directly relate to your issues. However I had upset stomach and inability to digest food (I believe due to the antibiotics) for weeks. Only the last week or so I've started to get over the weird medication side effects after I finished my antibiotics course a couple of weeks prior to that.

However since then I seem to have developed kind of a mild rash & red patch with bit of dry skin on my face. Could be the weather or meds, just don't know

I had a lots of sweating, and I put this down to antibiotics, and other painkillers. But you may be pass medication by now.

I definitely have the sweating, though I am only 4 days out. Last night I actually got a lot of good sleep, but when I woke up I was pretty damp from all of the sweat through the night.

Here's another one. On occasion I feel what has to be blood sort of attempting to rush into my penis, and it's very uncomfortable. It's like where I would have, in the past, gotten a partial erection, now it's just this pulsing feeling that hurts a little bit. Does anyone experience this?

I did and I do. But it doesn't hurt anymore.
It did hurt in the beginning though. Probably there was no room for that blood in the beginning with all the swelling.

So I communicated with Eid about these 3 issues. His reply:

Blood pressure:
Having an implant cannot create high blood pressure. The stress of surgery can temporarily increase blood pressure. 3.5 weeks is a long time for it to still be there though. He says I must have been predisposed to high blood pressure. If I wasn't, it'd be gone when stress from surgery is gone. If I was predisposed, stress from surgery could be the trigger and then it'll be there maybe forever and needs to be treated with medicine...

Sweating:
He says some patients, even though rare, have experienced these nightly sweatings for as much as up to three months. It has disappeared in every case reported to him though.

Yellow urine:
He says there is no correlation with implant itself. Yellow urine means dehydration.

In my opinion, typical text book doctors' answers.

Probably right in 95% of cases.
I just think it's weird that these rare things all happen to me and that there is no common cause. Just three random issues happening unrelated to each other...

We will see what happens.

I've had all of the symptoms and they have lasted weeks on end, but it finally settled down and returned to normal. I have a high inflammatory response to surgery that mimics infection right down to chills and fever. One Doctor actually removed one of my perfectly installed implants because he automatically assumed it was an infection. We both regretted that decision.

You should probably go to your primary care doctor for a blood test just to make sure, but I suspect it's just the way your system deals with a traumatic surgical event. Stay on top of this though.

Thanks.

I asked Eid as well of course if these symptoms could be sign of infection. I had also told him I had no fever, no increased pain, no skin attached to pump.
His answer was just a simple "no".

But I will keep monitoring it.

As a person that is allergic to many things so been exposed in this area often, I would suggest the higher B.P. is an immune response to a foreign body in your body. As soon as your body figures out your implant is no threat, you get a little more rested and a little less stressed worrying about everything that is not like the dick of your past, your B.P. will settle down. As far as dark urine, antibiotics can do that and sometimes but not often can take a few weeks to clear depending on your clearance rate. Also it is common for people to unknowingly become slightly dehydrated when traveling or after surgery so they do not have to get up to pee. Don't stress. Cheers man. d

Merrix
That is curious, one symptom of dehydration is low blood pressure, not high. Anyway, I would think about heading to see your GP and asking for a blood panel. If he/she does not suggest it ask for kidney and liver function tests as well as the standard tests. I don't know what painkillers you have been on, but if they have included acetominephen either in combination with some narcotic like codeine T3 or Tramadol or by themselves mention that to the doc as well. Also how much you were taking. Here's hoping your symptoms subside soon.