Tips and advice for any bladder or bowel side effects of treatment
after 6 months I was refered to the local NHS incontinence clinic. I thoroughly recommend these clinics. They have sensors and displays to show how well one is clenching ones pelvic floor muscles, which is something which we have never had to do before prostate removal.
doing ones pelvic floor exercises is essential and the NHS provides an app for smartphones called Squeezy for Men which is useful to do exercises regularly. The nurses in the recovery ward told me to but the largest nappies available, cut them in half, seal the edge with masking tape and use these instead of dedicated male incontinence products which are outrageously expensive. A good brand of male pads is abena.
Tips and advice for any sexual side effects of treatment
Think hard before having surgery! I was not aware of the viable alternatives to surgery, namely hormone therapy to halt and reverse tumor growth. This gives one time to think hard about the choices of curative treatments.
How this treatment impacted my life the most
I had a long recovery time, really 6 months, before I was back to work
Why did I give this answer?
I took the decision for surgery in haste and without understanding that hormone treatement could reverse tumor growth. my tumors shoud have been treated with hormones as they were at the edge of my prostate. failure to do this means I now had stage 3 cancer for which I have received radiotherapy.
