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Bill - 05 Mar 2005 19:32 GMT

Hi All

Report on January 18 PVP with Dr Lin.

Up until February 18 the recovery was going along just fine with no problems
. On Feb 18th I passed blood just before going to bed. I went to bed and a
couple of hours later I had to go. I found that the flow was completely
blocked so I headed for the ER at 2 AM. They put in a catheter to allow to
me to drain out and kept me for the night. In the morning a Urologist came
in and looked at me, changed the catheter to a larger size, and flushed out
my bladder, then sent me home. He said if it blocked up I would have to
come back. At 2 PM the same day the catheter plugged up and I was back in
the ER. I left at 6 PM and got through the weekend. On Monday Feb 21 Dr
Lin removed the catheter and things were ok.

On Feb 25 I passed some blood and a clot and then things were OK.

On March 3 I passed some blood and a clot and then things were OK. I talked
with Dr Lin and He said it was ok and to drink lots of water, something I
had been doing

On March 4th at 5 PM I passed a lot of blood. Twenty minutes later I passed
a clot and more blood and that kept on passing blood and clots till 11 PM.
Dr Lin is out of the country right now so I went to the ER, again. That was
my 5th trip. There were 2 before surgery and now 3 after.

They did blood work and the results were perfect. My clotting time was
better than normal, something the ER Dr. said was very unusually. At 4 AM I
was still passing blood and an occasional clot. After a conference with a
Urologist it was decided to send me home and see what developed over the
weekend. So now I am in the watchful waiting mode and still passing blood
and the occasional clot.

My question to the group is this. I had a 150 gm prostate and the surgery
took 2 hours. That is quite big. I have tried to be careful with what I
have done in regards to lifting etc. I decided it was too early to try sex.

Is there anyone else out there with a prostate my size that has had PVP and
the same type of problems with all of this bleeding and clots.

I look forward to your thoughts.

Bill E

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frank - 05 Mar 2005 19:45 GMT

sorry about your experiences, but with a 150er the healing would be more
extensive. from information received in past years, i believe that one that
size would have resulted in a removal of the prostate (prior to pvp). you
are in an unusually high bracket. mine was 105, and it was higher than
average. i had some clotting pass thru, but no blockage.

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Ron - 05 Mar 2005 21:28 GMT

Bill,
I had 7 & a half wks of bloody urine & clots after my first PVP, 3 and a
half hr surg [also w large prostate], with several experiences of retention.
I also had a stricture (inside the penis) from the surgery that wasn't
opened up until about 6 wks post-op. the penis sometimes got bent until
urine & clots could flow through the more narrow channel.
Ron

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Bill - 06 Mar 2005 00:52 GMT

Ron

Did you have a period of clear urine after your PVP and before the weeks of
blood and clots started?

Bill E

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Ron - 06 Mar 2005 04:05 GMT

Bill,
There were periods of clear urine. But most times, it was dark, bloody
urine.
Then, about 10 months later, after a DRE, the bleeding started again. This
clinched it for me to have another PVP to clear things up.
Ron

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daddyo - 05 Mar 2005 22:59 GMT

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>Report on January 18 PVP with Dr Lin.

Hello Bill,

Sorry to hear about your problems. I had a 2 hr PVP in August on a
135g prostate.

You seem to be having a more distressing version of a bleeding episode
which I experienced 3 months after the PVP.

After a good recovery I passed a very large clot in November and then
had bleeding on and off for a further 3 weeks,slowly diminishing.

Since then I have had no more problems.The Uro thought it was a scab
coming away and not a burst blood vessel.

Hopefully yours are now all out.

Larger prostates seem to have more post-op problems from what I have
read on this group.

All the best Richie

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