It took me 3 months to fully recover from PVP.......results have been
overall OK........ but nothing like Laserscopre suggests.

Marcus

I'm new to this board, but in need of info. I had Greenlight PVP on Jan 10
and was optimistic that the procedure would cure my BPH problems. I was
getting up 3 to 4 times every night despite my being on .4 and the later .8
mg of Flomax. The Flomax helped for several years until about 6 months ago.
The PVP procedure was performed as an oupatient and I was in and out of the
hospital in about 6 hours. I removed the catheter on the morning of the 2nd
day without any apparent problems except the sudden need to urgently urinate
frequently. (I was drinking a lot of water so I was not surprised too much.
I
also was not surprised to see some blood in my urine - at least for the next
several days. In accordance with the doc's instructions I remained on .4 mg
of Flomax, and was on an antibiotic for the 1st week. The urgency to urinate
gradually subsided over the next week, and the appearance of blood became
most evident at the end of the stream with a pinkish tinge. However I was
still getting up about 3 times each night to urinate. It is now the 26 Jan,
some 16 days after the procedure. About a week ago the blood increased and
now was at the beginning of the stream. Although on the Flomax, I'm still
awakening at night. I've also noticed on 2 occasions during the past several
days a small clot of about 1/4" in size. I'm experiencing no pain, no
temperature, but pinkish to light red blood shows up in my urine. And I've
yet to benefit from the PVP procedure.
Am I being too optimistic? (Before the procedure the urologist stated that
he
had performed this >200 times and has yet to have any say they were sorry to
have it done) Comments?

It takes time for most people to benefit/recover from the procedure. I
basically stopped passing blood at the beginning of urination after about
ten days.I passed only one clot about the size of a raisin but sometimes had
little bits that looked like flakes of chipped red paint. My sense of
urgency continued off and on for several weeks but the time between needing
to urinate during the day could be up to five hours and after two weeks my
retention was less than 100mls.My flow gradually improved each week and is
now 19mls/sec (was 11mls/sec) and retention 80mls (was 390mls) at week 26.
You should still keep your liquid intake up, I was probably overdoing it at
about 3.5 litres a day for the first five weeks. However much you drink you
will pass at least that much urine a day. I found that half of my output was
during the night. Even when I cut my liquid intake back to 2.5 litres I
still had to get up three times in the night but was passing up 400/500mls
at a time rather than the 200mls prior to the procedure.I am now getting up
twice in the night, that may be due to taking the Thiazide diuretic
prescribed for my hypertension in the early evening rather than in the
morning. My urologist and his nurse both said that 1.5 litres a day is
sufficient liquid intake but now way will I ever get it under 2 litres.
Derek.