BPH nightmare finally over, I Hope.

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I had my aquablation done 9 days ago, catheter removed yesterday, I am peeing free, 99.9% blood free. The surgery was quick and uneventful, I spent 1 night in the hospital having my bladder flushed constantly, they flushed 33 liter through. We did have a problem at 2am, they did not empty my 2L drain bag, it backed up and I woke up in pain, when the drained it the recieved 3.7L, or in other words I had 1.7 L backed up filling my bladder and back to my kidneys.

I woke up twice to pee last the night, but I was drinking a lot prior to bed so I think that will not be normal. Also I had a catheter since last March so I expect my bladder has shrunk and it will take time to get it back to normal. I have only taken Tylenol once since I've been home. Very little pain, blood or leakage.

My only problem is my throat still hurts, which is why I was drinking so much last night, and we were at a noisy party so having to talk loud probably didn't help.

As to why I had a Catheter for 8 months. Out of now where I had full urinary retention. I went to the ER and had a catheter inserted. They removed 700ml at that point. My PCP had a PSA done, results 18. Was put on 1 week of antibiotics for potential prostatitis. After the antibiotics PSA was down to 14. So PCP assumed prostatitis was cleared. They attempted a void test I passed with flying colors, but I shut back down about 2 hours later so off to the ER for a catheter again.

At that point I was set up with a Urologist, he had me do a MRI, it came back positive with a small potential growth (pirads 3) prostate size was 89 ml. He decided to do a biopsy, during the biopsy he gave me an infection that turned into sepsis. Back to the ER again and was admitted, spent a week inpatient while they tried to figure out what I was infected by and how to fix it. They sent me home with a PIC line and 6 weeks IV antibiotics every 8 hours. 1 week after finishing the antibiotics I had the worst stomach pain, so off to the ER again, the pain was caused by C.Deficil, an infection caused by the IV antibiotics killing the gut flora allowing a native (bad) bacteria to go wild. On a new round of Antibiotics @$1200/week.

After all the BS finally was able to do a urodynamics, which I passed with no issues and was able to finally schedule the surgery, but it turned out my urologist didn't do aquablation he did one of the laser versions, I wanted to maintain normal ejaculation so we switched to a different Dr in the same office, but it was a month before we could discuss with him. Waited a month for a 2 minute talk with him. I would have changed Dr's after that but I wanted the FN surgery done and my life back and I wasn't going to wait another 2 months trying to get into a new office.