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Sean's Story

Ethnicity
White British
Age
50-59
Work
Manual work
Sexual Orientation
Straight
Geography
West Midlands
Relationship status
Married/In a Civil Partnership
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Radical Prostatectomy (Surgery)

Tips and advice for any bladder or bowel side effects of treatment

Start to do pelvic floor exercises 4/5 times a day quick 10 every 5 seconds and then hold and count to 10 do this 10 times this really helped me with my pee leaking

Tips and advice for any sexual side effects of treatment

Try to stay positive it is hard to get your head around but there is treatments I'm still experimenting with certain drugs

Tips and advice for any mental and emotional side effects of treatment

Talk to people how you feel my wife is very understanding and supportive I speak to a therapist once a week but I also suffer PTSD which doesn't help I was strong throughout my diagnosis for my family and stayed strong everything went through my head Paranoid Frustration Embarrassment

If I had to do it all over again, would I choose the same treatment?

Yes

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