Thank you to everyone who has sharing their experience and progress. You made me realize I was not alone on this journey.
I'm just over 2 months post surgery. It is the members of this forum, who kept me positive. In terms of incontinence, I'm seeing improvement every week. To be honest, this only because someone posted about weighing their pull-ups and guards, to determine leakage.
All I can say is what a difference it is to move from subjective measurement, basically what I perceived was happening, to fact-based measurements because I now know for sure, that my leakage is trending in the right direction.
The recovery process has been an emotionally and psychologically difficult journey due to the incontinence and not being able to hike, bike and go to the gym. I'm now starting to get brave, I go for walks outside, food shopping, and this past week, trips to the gym.
I also took my first PSA test last week, which I was stressing about. The result was 0.006. Yahoo!
There were times when I struggled, and I thought, "this whole Kegels thing is BS, they tell us to do this stuff to keep idle hands busy", but it really does help, that and all the PT workouts. It takes time for the body to heal, and the exercise helps the healing by increasing blood flow.
A happy and healthy 2025 to all.
I'm just over 2 months post surgery. It is the members of this forum, who kept me positive. In terms of incontinence, I'm seeing improvement every week. To be honest, this only because someone posted about weighing their pull-ups and guards, to determine leakage.
All I can say is what a difference it is to move from subjective measurement, basically what I perceived was happening, to fact-based measurements because I now know for sure, that my leakage is trending in the right direction.
The recovery process has been an emotionally and psychologically difficult journey due to the incontinence and not being able to hike, bike and go to the gym. I'm now starting to get brave, I go for walks outside, food shopping, and this past week, trips to the gym.
I also took my first PSA test last week, which I was stressing about. The result was 0.006. Yahoo!
There were times when I struggled, and I thought, "this whole Kegels thing is BS, they tell us to do this stuff to keep idle hands busy", but it really does help, that and all the PT workouts. It takes time for the body to heal, and the exercise helps the healing by increasing blood flow.
A happy and healthy 2025 to all.
