We're not prescribing Flomax.  I'm telling him what happened to me,
what my doc's said, how I am doing.

The 1st month after seeding was the hardest for me.  I was getting up 3
and 4 times a night to pee, about every hour and a half.  It was the
same during the day.  Every hour to hour and a half, I was taking a
comfort break.

My office was 30 minutes from home, I never had to pull over, jump the
guard rail, and run for the woods.  My desk was 20 feet from the men's
room.   I'd get up, walk a few steps, and dribble for a minute.

I was on Flomax for exactly 6 months after seeding.

At the 6 month exam, the rad doc at INOVA asked me if I felt I needed
to take it longer.

If *I* felt that *I* needed it.

I told him that I was sleeping through the night.  Although my stream
was still weaker than normal, I pointed at the far wall of his
examining room, I could write my name there.

At 18 months, I had some stinging and burning while going and my stream
slowed down.   I was still sleeping through the night.

Once again, the caring docs at INOVA asked me, if *I* felt *I* needed
to go back on Flomax.  I told them that as long as I was sleeping
through the night and could write my name on the wall five feet away,
I'd defer on the medication.

At 27 months, I still have some burning and urgency.  Once a week or
two, I'll pass a few drops of pink-ish urine.  Once a month, I'll pee a
teeny-tiny blood clot. This has been going on since month 18.

I don't expect 3Putt to take any action from my comments but perhaps he
will feel emboldened to speak with his docs.

-kh