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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Prostate BPH / April 2005PVPers...........a couple of questions.......asking for advice
Am scheduled for a PVP on April 18th. It will be done at 4 in the afternoon and they will keep me in the hospital overnight. Don't know if that is standard practice with them or they are doing it because of my diabetes and asthma. Question 1.......will the trip home ( 3 hours ) be do-able that day following or should we get a motel and not even try it? We have the whole day so we could drive 45 and stop etc. Question 2.......Should I buy some Depends ahead of time so not to soil my underwear or is that not a problem? Thanks ahead of time for your advice. Don Re: question 1: Get a motel Re: question 2: Should in no way need Depends. James My experience would be the reverse - drive home will probably be OK but you might need to urinate without much warning or control so go with the depends or a portable urinal. Jim W. > Re: question 1: Get a motel > > Re: question 2: Should in no way need Depends. > > James Maybe, I should have clarified my very brief response to Don. I would opt for the motel BECAUSE I needed to pee about every hour during the first night [a few hours after the procedure]. By the following day, all the pent up fluid had been peed out. Then I drove home with no problem. Had I elected to have been on the road instead of holed up in a motel - I would have needed a pit stop every few miles. James > My experience would be the reverse - drive home will probably be OK but you > might need to urinate without much warning or control so go with the depends > or a portable urinal. My experience did not include an overnight stay in the hospital. I had the PVP at 2pm 2/23/05 and was discharged to go home (1 hour away) at 7pm without a cath, but was given the cath and instructions to use if necessary. Had to self-cath x2 at home at 8pm and 3am. After that could urinate without cath, although there was burning. Most likely you will have frequency and urgency once urination is started post PVP. Did not need any Depends at any time during the recovery (its now 6 weeks post PVP). Had a little drip of the Pyridium stain after urinating which went into a little tissue. All of us are different, but I would guess that had I needed to drive (my wife drive) 3 hours, I would have gone straight home since I sleep better at home than in a motel. There certainly was no problem driving 1 hour and driving another 2 hours likely would not have been a problem. The major problem in driving 3 hrs would be to have some arrangement to relieve the bladder when the frequent urge hits. I would make sure that I started on the Pyridium and the Bactrim DS (or whatever meds your URO puts you on) before hitting the road. My 2 cents worth.... > Am scheduled for a PVP on April 18th. It will be done at 4 in the > afternoon and they will keep me in the hospital overnight. Don't know [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Don Thank you all of you........being a male I probably would not have heeded my wife's advice and tried to make it back home. The 3 hours is not in a heavily populated area either.......probably 40-60 miles between rest areas let alone towns.......... Northern Michigan. What is Pyridium?? According to my Physician's Desk Reference, Pyridium is phenozopyridine hydrochloride, a urogesic, and it is a topical agent for relief of pain, burning and discomfort in the urinary tract. It is helpful in reducing discomfort after urinary tract procedures or in case of urinary tract infections. It causes the urine to turn orange-red in color but the urine returns to normal color after discontinuing the medication. My uro had me take 200 mg 3 times a day by mouth for 6 days. Hope that helps. > Thank you all of you........being a male I probably would not have > heeded my wife's advice and tried to make it back home. The 3 hours is > not in a heavily populated area either.......probably 40-60 miles > between rest areas let alone towns.......... Northern Michigan. > > What is Pyridium?? |
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