Urolift

[seeking info]

Hi Guys

I would love to chat with any one or ones here who have had this procedure. I was told I needed one today after a cystoscope! My ufologist actually let me peer Into the scope and see the narrowing of my urethra from my prostate enclosing around it! I have several questions and would certainly appreciate being able to bend your ear abit about the surgery and affects before and after! Please PM so I don't waste space in the forum for info just for me! Thank you in advance!

Seeking info...aka...Scott

[Anonymous3]

Scott
Here is a previous post
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[Larry10625]

Hi Guys

I would love to chat with any one or ones here who have had this procedure. I was told I needed one today after a cystoscope! My ufologist actually let me peer Into the scope and see the narrowing of my urethra from my prostate enclosing around it! I have several questions and would certainly appreciate being able to bend your ear abit about the surgery and affects before and after! Please PM so I don't waste space in the forum for info just for me! Thank you in advance!

Seeking info...aka...Scott

Please create a signature. It makes things much easier to answer your questions without asking a lot of questions. Here's how you do it
Click on your name in the top right corner and select "user control panel"

Then under the big letters "User Control Panel" there is a row of words... select "Profile"

Then down the left had side of the "User Control Panel" select "Edit Signature" (You might have Create Signature or something. I don't know exactly what you'll get because I already have a signature to edit)

Most guys put something like what I have, but you can put whatever you want. Here is mine -
51 years old, married 29 years. Implanted Mar 30/17 by Dr. Brock of London, Ont, CANADA. (AMS 700 CX 18 + 2). Had implant removed Apr 29/17 due to Septic Shock. Liposuction By Dr. Gan and re-implant by Dr. Brock (AMS LGX 15 + 2) Dec 14/17.

Don't get too carried away with the doctor like his name, address, phone number, etc (anything that looks like advertising for him).. you can certainly say Dr. Jones (great Dr.)

If you need further help, please ask, that's what I'm here for.

Larry
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[graymare]

I am 5 months past having this procedure and have mixed feelings about it now. It was a challenging first few days after the urolift, but I got past that. Since then I have had plusses and minuses. Plus side - I can start urinating immediately when I want to. I couldn't before the procedure. Plus side - I don't have to go as often; never more than once in the middle of the night. Sometimes I can go the entire night without urinating. That wasn't true before the procedure. Minus side - I expected to be able to be urinate faster, more completely. Urination still takes a long time in my opinion, though it is faster than it used to be. And I still dribble afterward, something I hoped would have ended. In my humble opinion, I wasn't the perfect candidate for a urolift, just a good one. Years ago a different urologist used tests to figure out that my muscles to empty my bladder were stretched too much and weakened from years of "holding my water" too long. (Not all jobs allow for bladder emptying whenever you want) So even though my prostate was squeezing my uretha, and the urolift helped that, it wasn't the only issue needing resolving.

[seeking info]

Graymere and Hugh...Thank you for your replies!..Larry.. I did create a signature....three times and have yet to get it to appear! I will try again and keep trying til I finally achieve success! Graymere!! Your comments was greatly appreciated! I am the perfect candidate per my Doctor but I am hesitant because I worry about the side effects! The procedure claims to not cause any sexual dysfunction! I suffer from a mild to moderate case of ED!!! The cause oif my ED..is strictly caused by my hea!the and the medications I take daily..mostly my implanted pain pump! I have great success with a very low dose of Viagra combined with my low T shot!!!things work great! I do not wish to do anything that will harm that..but.. I can not go on taking over 20 to 30 more mins to get my urine to pass. They did my cystoscope this past Wed and I ask to look also! I did see with my own eyes how narrow the opening is where my uretha passes thru my prostate! My wife says I really need the surgery! But as a man...I worry about my boners! I have researched on several sites...but it seems lime only those with bad experience have posted... Hence why I ask you guys who I completely trust!!!!
Thank you all
Scott

[Anonymous3]

Scott
Ask your Dr about tge Reszum procedure

http://www.rezum.com

That what I had

[graymare]

One of my best friends had the rezum done years ago and his original symptoms returned within 3 years. He also struggled with the procedure itself. He was very uncomfortable while it was being done. It had no effect on his erections because at that time, he didn't have any ED. As for me and the urolift, I had no side effects with the effectiveness of my ED meds. Of course I didn't attempt any sex for several weeks, until I got the ok from my urologist, but when I did there was no problem. The recovery from the procedure itself was not fun for the first few days, I will admit that as I wrote in earlier posts. But the urolift was done while I was knocked out for 20 minutes, just like during a colonoscopy, so I felt nothing.

[seeking info]

Yeah..they are putting me under...and my urologist said he would leave a catheter in me for couple of days until all of the urgency issues that happen right after the procedure. I don't like caths...but it's not the worse thing I have ever dealt with

Thank you all so much. I am praying the procedure foes as it says and has no sexual side effects!!

Scotg

[graymare]

Good luck and keep us posted on your recovery.

[WyoMan]

Scott, I had seen info on the Urolift and wondered if it would worked for me. About 18 months ago I was getting up 5 to 6 times each night and then got a urinary track infection. That literally caused me to pass out and a urologist showed me to self cath. That worked as needed
But an earlier ultrasound and a scoping showed my prostate too large for the usual turp or any thing like that. So I was looking toward an 'open prostatetectomy' (sp?). The Dr. I was referred to gave me the choice of open surgery or a relative new procedure-Prostate Arterial Embolization.(PAE) The doctor specialty for that is Interventional Radiologist. He would thread a catheter in the groin artery up to the branch going down to the bladder and prostate. The catheter would go below the bladder branch and then he would release micro beads that would block capillaries in the prostate. He would do both arteries of the prostate and it would take about two hours. I would be awake through the procedure.
That is what I did. I had to lay still for procedure, and 4 hours after-not lifting my right leg or my head. There was no pain, then or after. I was discharged a short time later. The Dr. requested that I stay close to that hospital for that night in case of bleeding.
The only downside to this procedure is that it takes time for the prostate to shrink due to less bloodflow. I started to see reduction in bathroom visits at night in about a month, and about two months were down to usually two. I had been cathing twice daily for that time and earlier would drain up to 250 ml at a time and at two months or so I was down to about 60 ml, so I quit that. Also Flowmax didn't help any more so I stopped that.
I didn't experience any change in sexual desire or performance-performance was by injection only at that time. I had avoided Avidart and Proscar for that reason.
I said that so maybe you could ask your dr if that is a possibility, and others on this forum who might be a candidate for this. It was very little invasive, no pain, and only had to be careful for a few days. It does not restrict any other procedure that may be needed, and can be repeated if necessary.