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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Prostate Cancer / November 2006i just got home from my robotic lp surgery on holloween day
my surgeon bumped me to 3rd place since he did 4 of them. my 1st pblm is to get my digestive tract working again. i would have been released on wed except i have gas pains due to the digestion pbm and from the gas they pumped into me. i have been walking to try to pass the gas and all i get is some burps which means it is all backed up. lots of pain from the gas pressure so i am on pain medication. it is difficult to bend and sit and get out of bed. i even have pain in my shoulders. my wife has to empty my catheder since i can't bend over. i hope this goes away soon. anyone else had this pbm? gary I had the same thing happen to me. It will take a couple of days for it to disperse. It was painful, but things get better fast. Walking helps. Good luck! i was just wondering if enzymes would help. i know they are used to aid in digestion. gary > I had the same thing happen to me. It will take a couple of days for it to > disperse. It was painful, but things get better fast. Walking helps. Good > luck! Hi Gary, I had the same problem after my LRP. The next day the pain got so bad that they took me down for a CT-scan to see if I was leaking. I had originally passed gas by walking but it came back and wouldn't go away even with walking. I had been on a liquid diet and told them I wanted something regular to eat so they gave me a regular meal. After eating it, I went for a walk and had a blaster. I was great after that. I believe the whole food started things working again for me. Ron S. here it is saturday, 4 days after my surgery. i took some milk of magnesia and an hour later the dam burst. i still have some aches and pains, possibly from the left over gas pockets. i have 6 incisions, one about 2 inches long above my belly button. the catheder is very inconvenient but it will come out on monday. i have to have my poor wife help me with it through the day since it hurts to bend over. i have to sleep on my back with the night bag at the side of the bed. i have to wake her up early to empty the bag since i get fatigued sleeping in one position. i have been walking a lot as they instructed, but i stay home since i would have trouble emptying the bag myself. my surgery was completed an hour early since it was a simple one. the surgeon said there was nothing spetacular about it. he does 8 to 10 of them a week. he walks the rounds with a team of about 6 doctors following him. i am looking foreward to getting rid of this bag on monday. i wear a pad with it and i keep seeing little blood spots that probably comes from the connection to my penus. gary > Hi Gary, > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Ron S. > here it is saturday, 4 days after my surgery. i took some milk of > magnesia and an hour later the dam burst. i still have some aches and [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > spots that probably comes from the connection to my penus. > gary Dear Gary, Seems like the worst of it is behind you. Keep up the walking and try to drink Ensure nutritional supp. because your body has to heal and the nutrition is very important. My husb. still drinks it -- says it tastes great. If you can afford the 360 calories a pop it's well worth it. You're lucky your surg. was nothing special. In this area the less special the better. Good luck Leah does it make sense to still keep drinking a glass of pomogrant and tomatoe juice a day since my prostate is nonexistent? gary > > here it is saturday, 4 days after my surgery. i took some milk of > > magnesia and an hour later the dam burst. i still have some aches and [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] > > Leah > does it make sense to still keep drinking a glass of pomogrant and > tomatoe juice a day since my prostate is nonexistent? Depends on what you expect from unproven but low-risk "supplements" or specialty foods. Neither of those is proved to help our prostates (or to suppress future mets thereof), but MAYBE neither does any harm (that's also not proved). For example, tomato juice contains LOTS of salt, bad for folks with hypertension and MAYBE -- again, not proved -- bad for many who DON'T have hypertension . . . yet. Another approach is to use cooked tomato products such as marinara sauce and salsa INSTEAD OF SALT on other foods. Both of those are very tasty on a wide variety of foods that NEED salt, from scrambled eggs to chicken. Stewed tomatoes are great in lima beans -- I mix a can of each. Spaghetti squash is great with . . . SURPRISE . . . spaghetti sauce. Properly prepared Mexican dishes are very healthy foods, and just about all Mexican entrees beg for heaps of salsa. I.P. >> does it make sense to still keep drinking a glass of pomogrant and >> tomatoe juice a day since my prostate is nonexistent? [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > I.P. Or, if you are lazy like me and want to avoid salt, the sugars in Pom juice, etc., just gulp down capsules of extracts. Lycopene, pomegranate extract, tumeric, vitamin d3, selenium, etc., are all available at your local health food store or online at around a dime per day. I know, not proven as effective as the real thing, and the real thing is not proven in double blind tests, etc. But as IP notes, it's low risk, and probably safer (at least for your waistline) than daily huge plates of spaghetti with sauce. (g) Alex > blind tests, etc. But as IP notes, it's low risk, and probably safer (at > least for your waistline) than daily huge plates of spaghetti with sauce. > (g) I prefer huge plates of spaghetti with home made meat sauce. I'm starting to think that quality of life counts for something. I mull over a sour, deprived, long existance or a shorter, richer one. This is related to the connundrum that was well presented in another thread. Aggressive early treatment or hope that medical science improves faster than the disease evolves. I don't think I would "wait" (and I didn't) but consider that a couple years was the difference between 3D-CRT and IMRT (and TOMO), or conventional v. laproscopic, or nerve-sparing v. non-nerve-sparing. Which isn't to say that newer is better. My point is that big changes occur in a short time. If I can maintain my quality of life, that counts for me. Update: I'm at seeding +2 years. There's some burning when pee'ing in the morning. Erections are "OK", more than stuffable but less than a woodie, better on a 10 or 15 mg of Vitamin-V, a crumb of a 50. Libido is off but able to appreciate 5'10", slim blondes in black leather motorcycle outfits and balanced on 3 inch heels. Stamina is returning. -kh > I prefer huge plates of spaghetti with home made meat sauce. > > I'm starting to think that quality of life counts for something. I > mull over a sour, deprived, long existance or a shorter, richer one. Spaghetti should prolong your life and boost your health as long as it's whole wheat spaghetti. I.P. Yes. Imagine a few cells getting out and coming face to face with an antioxidant.  SignaturePSA 16 10/17/2000 @ 46 Biopsy 11/01/2000 G7 (3+4), T2c RRP 12/15/2000 G7 (3+4), T3cN0M0 Neg margins PSA .1 .1 .1 .27 .37 .75 EBRT 05-07/2002 @ 47 PSA .34 .22 .15 .21 .32 Lupron 07/03 (1 mo) 8/03 (4 mo), 12/03, 4/04, 09/04, 01/05, 5/05, 10/05, 2/06, 6/06 PSA .07 .05 .06 .09 .08 .132 .145 Casodex added daily 07/06 PSA <0.04 Non Illegitimi Carborundum > does it make sense to still keep drinking a glass of pomogrant and > tomatoe juice a day since my prostate is nonexistent? [quoted text clipped - 32 lines] >> >> Leah |
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