The telltale signs of type two are frequent urination and increased thirst. When it gets to a serious level, it will be as if the water is just pouring through your body.

A quick prostrate report. I am now sleeping up to 8 hours. 7 to 7.5 most of the time. Flow is good, about like when I was fifty.

Wooo hooo!

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..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

That's very good news ! .

I take Melatonin and some times get 6 hours of sleep .

My flow is great but I only go a few hours between bathroom trips to P. .

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1982 240D 408,XXX miles
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion and fear is the father

I did then what I knew how to do ~ now that I know better I do better

About once a month, I need to clean the greasy handprints about head height above the toilet tank. I habitually put my hand up there and lean over the bowl. Sometimes my stream is halfway good, but often is not very good.

I just attended the memorial for a good buddy, I don’t know what he was thinking, kicking off at 67, maybe it was all that halibut fishing in Alaska. Anyway, his older brother, now 71, didn’t come right out and say it but it sounds to me like he no way in hell wants prostate surgery. He uses Flomax and does a catheter before bed, sort of a jumpstart on the night I guess. I have never had a catheter in my peepee, that I know of anyway, I was put under for surgery a few times. Not sure if you would feel the after affects of that. I would be happy enough to go through life without a catheter. Not sure it’s gonna work out that way. Maybe they’re not all that bad, I don’t know.

But I think I get it, surgery holds out the risk of losing wood. I read once that steam is even more likely to result in that. Who knows, more research is needed.

I read that after reduction surgery you usually need to wear diapers for a few months until you get the new situation under control. But if I could piss like a racehorse and not lose wood, I am tempted to go for it. Sometimes I need to pee every 15 minutes, and it’s hard to hold it back anymore. The older brother I mentioned really has a hard time delaying. I don’t want to be some old fart always smelling of pee.

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1986 300SDL, 362K
1984 300D, 138K

I keep an old Gatorade bottle by my bedside. Easily three times a night for me.

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1986 300SDL, 362K
1984 300D, 138K

We have a Mistress sighting ladies and germs! I’m almost 10 months late to it.

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1986 300SDL, 362K
1984 300D, 138K

The procedure Tom chose seems a reasonable option with perhaps less side effects. Perhaps the method is miles ahead of the roto rooter approach.

When my bladder neck is stretched for surgeries. It varies somewhat. Yet a few times I never wanted to be more than 20 or so feet from a washroom.

I only can maintain bladder control marginaly at best for a couple of weeks. Then it becomes less of an issue until normal once again. For the first week or two. At the very slightest feeling you want to urinate. Take it to heart.

Short term cath use does not seem to have any real effect on me. Even though they use the really big one on me sometimes. I had a healing scab break off in the bladder once and block the output. When I got to the emergency ward. They phoned the surgeon. He told them to install the one he does. The person said to me I cannot get this into a human. In agony with the pressure waves coming closer and closer. I told them you will have to put me out if you procrastinate any longer. Excuse the term but screw it in.

The thing to remember about catheters. There is a balloon they blow up on the end inside you. On some models. It keeps it where they want it. to deflate that balloon they use sissors to cut the inflating line. Be aware that in a hurry many medical people neglect to deflate the bubble. So know what they are using on you. Before they just pull it out.


It never happened to me but it does with some regularity I heard. The common cathode used on me has a water in and water out tubes and an inflation tube. This allows them to monitor internal bleeding after surgery.
The uretheter tube itself must be quite stretchable.

Yes, it is pretty flexible.

I can highly recommend the method I used. The only place it is done AFIK is at the North Carolina University hospital. I have no bad side effects from it. The time for it to take effect does not seem to be too long. I had it done in April IIRC and it gradually got better. I think it is pretty stable now and not getting better or worse.

Medicare and my make up insurance paid all of it. I had to get there and pay for my hotels along the way and my and the Mrs. food.

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[SIGPIC] Diesel loving autocrossing grandpa Architect. 08 Dodge 3/4 ton with Cummins & six speed; I have had about 35 benzes. I have a 39 Studebaker Coupe Express pickup in which I have had installed a 617 turbo and a five speed manual.[SIGPIC]

..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

For some information on the prostate gland, cancer and how it all goes, read Snowbum's articles :

https://bmwmotorcycletech.info/prostatecancer.htm

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-Nate
1982 240D 408,XXX miles
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion and fear is the father

I did then what I knew how to do ~ now that I know better I do better

The only comment I'll make about that article is that when it comes to PC, men will passionately defend their chosen course of treatment. To be otherwise would be to publicly admit that you've mismanaged your own junk, and that the vitality you've lost could have been saved. So disregard any opinions he expresses about his particular approach.

I'd rather cut off any part of my anatomy than die of cancer....

You'd be foolish to think otherwise, many are .

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-Nate
1982 240D 408,XXX miles
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion and fear is the father

I did then what I knew how to do ~ now that I know better I do better

Ah. The problem is that there are at least a dozen ways to remove said appendage. It's like an oil change thread, except it's more passionate.

I'm not a doctor, either. But very early on, I did work as an epidemiologist. And I've had my own battle. So just some more perspective:

1) Statistics has great value in making decisions for populations, but is counterproductive in making a single decision about an individual. This is because only populations have averages. An individual's experience is always 100%. Did you hear the one about Schoedinger's cat? As long as the you don't open the box, the cat is 15% dead.

2) There are two dozen techniques for treating PC. It takes a physician ten years to become adept at any one technique. So when you pick out a research paper, don't be surprised if it strongly advocates one technique as vastly superior to all others, with supporting statistics. And when you pick out a doctor, don't be surprised if he pontificates on the value of his technique. Whatever else you learn about this, pick someone with deep experience.

3) The deepest BS surrounds open surgery, because it's the hardest to master. It's also the easiest to screw up. And from the patient's perspective, the toughest recovery, so all that pain must be for a reason. Not saying that's what happened here, but his cancer did recur.

4) PC ALWAYS progresses. The only question for you is whether some other cause of death will win the race.

I've lost two friends to prostrate/pancreatic/bladder/lung cancer. In both cases, blood was present in the urine. Both people had lost a lot of weight before they died.

Another friend died from lung cancer which progressed over a short period of time. He underwent the famous Cyberknife treatment which seemed to work for a year or two. Then, the cancer returned with a vengeance.

Two out of the three who died were heavy smokers.

A local hospital recently built a new oncology wing. Radiation treatment for lung cancer starts at around $18,000 for a six week regimen. They are booked up months in advance.

A friend, an LPN (who was a heavy smoker at the time) got a job there. Everyday she saw cancer patients wheeled out onto the patio of the hospital so they could smoke a cigarette. The patients had to temporarily remove their oxygen breathers so they could take a drag off the cigarette. Of course, sparks and flames don't mix well with oxygen but what can you say?

After two weeks of witnessing these morons smoke their brains out while trying to cure cancer via $18,000 worth of radiation, she finally quit smoking.

I find it amazing that sometimes it takes an ice cold freezing dose of reality to shake us into changing our habits!!

I was 27 years old, and on the first game of the season, I hit a triple. Damn near passed out wheeling into third. Said to myself, self, you gotta give up smoking. I quit. It took a bit over two years for the craving to go away.

Quitting is hard.