Regaining Continence

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Don Bouchard - 12 Jan 2004 21:27 GMT

What is the average time to regain continence after radical prostatectomy?
Personal experiences solicited.

Don

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Steve Kramer - 12 Jan 2004 23:41 GMT

It took me about 6 months, as I recall. And that was kind of on the long
end.

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> What is the average time to regain continence after radical prostatectomy?
> Personal experiences solicited.
>
> Don

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Leonard Evens - 13 Jan 2004 15:12 GMT

> What is the average time to regain continence after radical prostatectomy?

Walsh in Guide to Surviving Prostate Cancer reports that at Hopkins,
half of all men are continent by 3 months and almost all by one year.

> Personal experiences solicited.

I was continent within a month from when the catheter came out. I do
still have some very minor stress and urgency incontinence, but that
seems to be improving over time. I had some of that before surgery also.

> Don

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Bill Houdek - 13 Jan 2004 17:43 GMT

Came gradually after several months. Even today, after ten years, am not
totally continent. Wear a pad to bed and at times, when I stoop over to get
something from the floor, will leak some.

Bill Houdek

> What is the average time to regain continence after radical prostatectomy?
> Personal experiences solicited.
>
> Don

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