Hi all,

This is about my farther (now 75yrs). He had a TURP in 1994 because of
enlarge prostate.
Around 2004 ~ 2005 he started getting urine infections on and off. Then
he had a stroke in July 2005 (nominal aphasia) for that doctors gave
lot of aspirin. After few weeks,
he had a urine block and started bleeding. For this, his urologist
cleaned the system (irrigation of the bladder?) using saline and was
put on catheter. He also did a sistoscopy and said he should be
operated to get a permenant cure. Since his heart condition is not
good, we delayed it. On Feb 2006 (after 5 months on catheter), for some
reason, his catheter came out and he found that he can pass urine. We
went to see our family doctor and he said,
little urine is retained in the bladder but its ok as it is better to
be without the catheter if he can.
After about one month from that we went to see our urologist and he was
happy that he could pass urine without the catheter and without
operation. Also he gave him urimax (double doze) and some other
antibiotic and he said he'll be able to pass urine better. Also, he
warned to watch out for his blood pressure as urimax would reduce it.
But on the first day it self, my farther had a retention and had to
catheterize after couple of days.
Since then, he's on catheter (and he refuses to go back to that
urologist).

I did a small search on the net and found that urimax warns of urinary
retentions.
Then why is the urologist gave him that medicine? Can someone explain?
What are the options for my father?

Thanks in advance,
Harshana