Good luck with your surgery.  It's a difficult choice to make, and an
important one.  Half of the battle is making the initial decisions.  

I followed the same logic as PeteBos.  The large incision caused a lot
of pain and left a big scar, but it doesn't matter because I was focused
on the outcome.  Which was pretty much perfect.

jimhoney
standard RRP age 52, cured, no significant aftereffects

PeteBos,
You should do what feels best to you on tactile vs visual. As to the
comment on seasoned surgeons recommending RRP, my take is that if you
go to a hammer, you will be a nail. All doctors believe in what they
do. I think the open RP guys have perfected a method that will
eventually be abandoned. Only time will tell. If you get good results,
and I hope you do, you won't care how you got them. If you go to a top
experienced robotic guy, they will tell you it is at least as good as
the open procedure with less misery up front. My urology group includes
a top RRP guy and a leading robot guy. I picked robot guy because I
felt better going to a surgeon who could see better what he was doing.
Results are excellent for me, so I'm very pro robot. Plus, I like the
doc!  Good luck.
Steve U