Can't read my own writing....  my prostate was 180ml, not 185. As
Patrick says, that was too big for TURP. But at what point would the
uro who advised TURP have discovered that? While I was unconscious?
Under the UK NHS I was told I could have a cystoscopy, but as part of
TURP!! Ultrasound only revealed that my bladder was "unremarkable".

Yes, I had acute retention 16 days after PVP....  lots of blood clots
at that time....  lucky I still had those catheters, and used 4 over 3
days. What I hadn't realised was that once the end of the catheter got
into the void of the empty prostate it might be hard to find the way
into the bladder! It needed the full length of it to reach urine
though.

Tim Larner told me to ring if I was in trouble, but we are used to
trouble with BPH. I rang him subsequently and he got me some
antibiotics just in case. For a later instance of bleeding  [without
retention] he prescribed Finasteride. No bleeding thereafter.

I was Larner's 44th PVP, and I think he said he was up in the 70's
when I saw him.... he's met a couple of prostates bigger than mine
now, and is looking forward to a 200 ml one!