Postby BrokenArrow » Sun Dec 27, 2009 7:44 pm
After my open Radical Prostatectomy in May 09, I had far less post-surgery pain than I did with a hernia surgery 4 years earlier. I was up and active walking to my chair from my bed within hours of waking up...the hallway soon after. The catheter was a pain in the butt, but, I dealt with more of a nuisance than a pain. Within a couple days of catheter removal, I was dry. ED another story but, I'm making good progress with Trimix and may even be "med-free" for a boner soon.
The single biggest reason I chose surgery was to determine cancer content and best possible prognosis based on actual pathology results. Something other treatments can't provide as yet, or any imaging I'm aware of to the same accuracy. And, nothing is 100% certain, either.
If robotic is better than what I had, I don't think I would have noticed the difference. But, we're all different.
Age 54.
Open RRP in May of 2009. Gleason at biopsy, 3+3. Gleason after surgery, 3+4 with extra-prostatic extension. Stage III cancer. No incontinence issues. ED issues. Trimix for 5 months. Now, levitra alone is working at 10 mG.