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My experience with transurethral Incision of the prostate, why you should know about my experience with the surgery

I catheterize myself every day and have been for a long time now I noticed when I got to my late 30s I couldn’t pass the catheter as well as I used so one day after my Botox treatment for bladder incontinence my urologist suggested a procedure to help pass the catheter a little better.

My urologist said it would be beneficial and he also said that it could make me leak. He was going to do with the procedure at my next Botox injection little did I know what I was getting myself into by not waiting until my next Botox ejection and just doing the procedure by itself.

This procedure cost me my whole summer and also my life at least I think here’s why.

Right after the Botox treatment, I had I decided just 3 weeks later to do the operation which was an outpatient which shouldn’t have been an outpatient surgery in the first place but nowadays every surgery is an outpatient surgery.

Right before the operation I met with my urologist and he told me that I needed a fully-catheter for a week so I told him that he need to admit me because I wasn’t about to go home with a foreign object in my urethra It would have greatly decreased My independence.

My urologist did admit me only for a couple of days and then I went to a nursing home in a Subacute unit.

As I was in the nursing home I noticed that I was leaking more than normal.

When I got home the leaking continued so I called my urologist and he said to go to the emergency room and have his team look at me. So I went to the emergency room and had one of his residents look at me. Again they put a fully-catheter in me and we were going to send me home I was not having that.

After causing hell in the emergency room on my part they admitted me again to the hospital. While I was in the hospital I again was waiting to go back to the nursing home. I was admitted to what the hospital calls a short stay unit until they could find me a nursing home to Place me.

Just a couple of days after being in the hospital I Was preparing to go to the nursing home but I had a few complications that stopped me from going to the nursing home.

My first complication was when a nurse Tech took my temperature and I all of a sudden had a fever out of nowhere. They did a bunch of tests and couldn’t find anything.

After a day or two they decided to take the fully-catheter out and I was able to calf myself and get good output which I wasn’t getting good output before.

I remember things were looking up and it looked like I didn’t have to go to a nursing home I could just go home back to my apartment little did I know what would happen next.

So one day after getting the fully-catheter taken out I tried to cast myself and I couldn’t I also realized that I was in some pain and there was some blood so they called the resident on call and he had to scope a fully-catheter inside my urethra and found that I had a blood clot.

The blood clot was so bad they had to scope the fully-catheter in and even then I was in pain and was losing a lot of blood because of the blood clot.

After hours of being in pain, they finally took out the blood clot surgically.

After the surgery, the urologist who is my current urologist went out and talked to my mom and he told her that my bladder was the size of a peach and that the blood clot was the size of a cantaloupe.

That was one of the worst experiences I’ve ever experienced.

All of this happened during the summer before the Covid pandemic.

With all of that said I think what caused the blood clot was the fully-catheter that was inside me I’m not a fan of fully-catheters and I think they’re more of a negative than a positive because they are plastic.

One piece of advice I would give to anyone who has medical issues and is about to have a procedure do research and find out the pros and cons of that procedure.

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