Urination after surgery

Eonore,

Your urinary experience is the opposite of most post-surgery, in which guys "pee too easily."  What did the doctor say about the surgery: any complications encountered, potential problems following ?  Men have 2 urinary spincters, but one of these is cut out during the RP when the gland is removed, accounting for a lot of the incontinence.  Did you have urination issues before the surgery or bladder disease ?  Clues of this will be in your post-surgical report, of which you should have a paper copy.  If not yet available, demand one as soon as it is typed.  This must include a summary of the post-op Pathology Report, or get a full pathology report also.

{{ UPDATE: I just saw yor report on the Pathology Report, posted October 11.   Other than the huge size of the gland, it does not provide an easy answer.  What caused the gland to get so massive ? }}

Viewed as just a plumbing problem, your issue almost has to be either some form of stricture with the uretha, or a problem with the remainng spincter.  Surgeons are essentially pipe welders after the gland comes out, attaching the urethra to the bladder.  Urethra problems are rare but occur.  A remote third problem might be internal to the bladder itself.

Obviously, the first thing to do is to demand that the surgeon figure this out, and then fix it, even if a follow-up surgery is required.

But no, your description is not typical of what most men describe here after RP, and was not what I experienced post DaVinci either.  I did have bladder spasams in recovery and for the first night, but this was fixed the first day with anti-spasam meds.  This caused a sensation of extreme fullness that day, despite an EMPTY bladder. Distressing in feel, but not dangerous medically. My surgeon did say he had only had a few other reports of this sensation in his career, which at that time included over 900 DaVincis.

It may be that your urethra and spincter are normal, and this is just an odd reaction to the surgical pain, but I would make the surgeon give a full account of this.  When any person s cut open and their "junk" is massively stretched apart for access, all kinds of odd nerve damage or feelings can occur.

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