Hi,

What helped me rather dramatically was accupuncture...if you can find a good
accupuncturist. There's a meridian behind the knee that somehow kicks up the
healing energy. It may be different for you, or a combination of different
points, but I would give it a try rather than accept the 6 month scenario.

Marcus

Buford, did your Uro explain why pvp does not always work?  Did you have
good flow at any time after the procedure?

I ask because my flow was excellent after the procedure, but now, three
weeks later it is about the same as it was before pvp. I also still need
Flomax as I did before pvp.

I have a follow up on May 9th, and I shall be interested to hear what my
uro says.

One thing he did say before the op was that it often took 3 months before
significant improvement was seen.

Dave

I am at 6 weeks recovery and off of Hytrin, but the flow is only
somewhat better than pre PVP. I have some (minor) pain during urination.
My uro says wait 4 months for full results. He says that about 10% of
cases show this slow improvement..

Good Luck

Buford...I had a TURP over three weeks ago (not a PVP), but I can sympathize
with you. My post on the TURP is dtd 4/24/05 (you may have read it).  I am
10 times worse than before and can not tolerate the pain, burning, and
discomfort (including in my rectum), and the constant urge (non stop 24
hours) that I have to go, even though I don't have to go.  Can't eat, can't
sleep and can't take opiates since they constipate me all to hell.  I can
pee (not great) during the day after drinking quite a bit, but by the latter
part of the day and night I can hardly go at all (I believe due to the
inflammation building up).  I can tell you this - the TURP I just had for
the little bit of BPH, plus the scar tissue from a TUIP (that's right TUIP)
in 1995, has definitely aggravated my prostatitis, so now I am suffering
from both the surgery and a worsened prostatitis, and I do not believe I am
healing properly.

Have been back to both the surgeon and the office PA (in the last 2 weeks),
and all I got is "wait" from the surgeon, and the PA said "you don't get
better" and "If I was a surgeon I wouldn't have operated on you" (since I
used to see him for my prostatitis prior to the surgery).  Its nice to know
they care. Each  visit they said to come back in 3 months - Right!!!  I am
getting worse not better.  There is nothing I can do but suffer, its
unbelievable.  I am taking my anti's on my own as a prophylactic, and
praying I get better.  I feel like I can't go on.

Sorry for ragging on you guys.  It is a son of a bitch.  Once your cut, its
too late.  But I felt I needed the surgery since I was having trouble peeing
and I can't take Flomax or Hytrin (alpha blockers plug my nose up
completely).  I don't think I have an infection, since I don't have a fever,
but it is the worse type of pain you can imagine.  If I go to the ER they
will just take some blood, do a flat view x-ray, and send me home and tell
me to go see my uro.  Like I wrote before all the uros are in the same room
where I live, so I have to go out of town to see another one (I have made an
appt with one) - but what can he do - he can't cut me again.  These are hard
things to deal with.

Buford, I wish you the best.  If Flomax helps you, then take it.  I wish I
could....Pete