Originally Posted by jamesdak

Thought I'd update this for anyone else experiencing issues. I have TURP done in January. It 100% solved my urination issues. First day/night of recovery was fine until the catheter was pulled out. Clotted up inside and was unable to go. So the nurses had to put a catheter back in before I could be released. For whatever reason they could not get the catheter in and really had to finally force it. I was begging them to just shoot me by the time that was over. Yeah, it was that painful! I mention this only because I am still having problems and I really wonder if they messed me up getting that catheter back in. The nurse did say " I tore some tissue for sure so don't be surprised in your black and blue down there. At this time I was so fried from the pain they put me through that his statement didn't really register.

I healed ok it seemed but was still passing chunks of stuff at 4 weeks post surgery. The bad is that here I am about 8 months later and things have never really returned to normal. Most days I have pain/discomfort in my bladder area and every few weeks it get's really bad for several days at a time. Dr's are like,"give it time to heal". I started having a lot of pain again Saturday after my bike ride, worse after a short easy Sunday ride. I've stayed off the bikes so far this week but as each day progress I feel worse and worse as the day passes. I live on tylenol and advil now. In the past months when things felt like another prostate/UTI the tests came back negatively. Yet no one can seem to give me an answer. I'm now playing the VA game again trying to get into a specialist to see what's going on. Quality of life is pretty much sucking with this. So anyway, sharing this for anyone having issues. Best thing I can say is take your prostrate health seriously, you don't want to deal with what I am. It just isn't anyway to live.