"Use it or lose it" prostatectomy?

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  • Grinder
    Grinder Member Posts: 487 Member
    #22
    thanks

    LaughingLaughing

    Hey thanks for all the info on a touchy subject . :D

    Now if someone could recommend a good mohel, since I lost two inches I have a foreskin again. :D

     

  • Max Former Hodgkins Stage 3
    Max Former Hodgkins Stage 3 Member Posts: 3,817 Member
    #23
    Needs a doc....

    Grinder,

    Try Kiryas Joel, a little town in Orange County, NY, just up the Hudson outside NYC (a quick ride on the Metro North).    Over 90% Hasidic.  And there is always Brooklyn / Crown Heights.  I'm not Jewish myself, but do herald from Eastern Europe ancestry, and I studied Orthodox Judaism as a history grad student in the Upper East Side decades ago, while living with my brother-in-law in Poukeepsie -- took the Metro into town daily. A fascinating culture. I do eat mostly kosher; their meats are in my opinion the most sanitary and healthy.  And I dig that Rock the Casbah hair.

    max

  • Max Former Hodgkins Stage 3
    Max Former Hodgkins Stage 3 Member Posts: 3,817 Member
    #24
    ggt said:

    Before my surgery on 3-16-2017, my doctor recommended I read the following book: "Saving Your Sex Life - A Guide for Men with Prostate Cancer" by John P. Mulhall, M.D., Director, Sexual & Reproductive Medicine Urology Service, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, in regards of what is one to expect as part of a penile rehab program. I found it very informative for anyone who has just been diagnosed or who has just been treated.  Since my nerve sparing (Open vs. DaVinci Robot) RP surgery, I have been on 5 mg Cialis daily in the evening prior to bedtime. At my one month follow up visit, I will be trained on how to self inject the Bimix medication, which I will then do for 3 times a week until my erections return on their own which may be over the next 18-36 months. I am optimistic as I had a surgeon that has removed over 7,000 prostates thus far in his career and has just about seen it all.

    FYI

    For the information of all readers:  'Bimix' mentioned here by ggt is simply 'Trimix,' minus one of the drugs in Trimix, as one might expect. I don't know why some doctors choose one, some the other.

  • MK1965
    MK1965 Member Posts: 233 Member
    #25
    GAMARATHON said:

    ED Therapy

    Sirs,

    I had nerve-sparing DA Vinci surgery seven weeks ago. Three weeks ago I started on ED therapy. I take 20 mg/daily of Sidenafil. I use the vacumn pump twice daily for "exercise" plus now I use a vibrator once daily. I've not had sex yet, having tried 3X with up to 100 mg. Sidenafil. BTW I'm 66. I had a Gleason of 4+3 and a Pre-Op PSA of 7.08. The Post Op Path said it was organ confined. Back to ED Therapy, the vibrator is giving me orgasms more often. My <content edited by CSN Support Team> has grown in diameter, judging by the fit of the vacumn pump. I've had one slight nocturnal erection the day after I went for a very easy run. I have some stress incontinence and still do Kegels 5X daily. BTW, got my first post-op PSA today and it was off the scale on the low side!!!

    Nocturnal erections

    Gamarathon,

    You are very lucky guy to start expecting nocturnal erections at very early time. Great to hear something like that.

    You will regain your erectile function preatty soon.

    i had my RALP 7 1/2 months ago and by now I did not experienced any spontaneous response not even slightest sign of life in my penis. I am 52 and never had problems with achieving and maintaining erections before surgery. I am very active and healthy and not on any meds. My surgery was nerve sparing according to my surgeon but I doubt it was. Was told, I am perfect fit for robotic surgery but my post surgical experience is very far from anything perfect.; on far opposite side.

    I did not have success using Cialis and VED. Started TRIMIX in April and TRIMIX gives me erections but my erect penis looks pathetically small. I lost 2 + inches of length.

    Not so good feeling. I wish I never had surger. QOL is greatly degraded.

    MK

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