Artifical Urinary Sphincter

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Last year I had a salvage radical prostatectomy surgery. I have since had continence issues. My surgeon has recommended an artificial urinary sphincter.

I wanted to know if anyone has had this operation and if so, how successful was it in treating your incontinence? Was there any complications/issues encountered? If you had to do it again, would you?

 

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See my posts under NWYENKO. I had the procedure the 1st of August after 1 1/2 years of 100% incontinance. It was activated the end of September and has been working great. It has not been 100% but about 85% which I can live with. I am still using a couple of pads a day and a couple at night which is so much better than before. I would suggest you find the urologist in your area that does multiple of these a year. I would definitely do it again. Jim

 

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That is good to hear. The urologist I would work with has done over 200 of these -- the only surgery he does is related to AUS and Slings. Thanks

 

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Are you talking about Interstim? Your best bet is to look up the problems and successes and compare each of them. Get a list of pros and cons and evaluate if it’s something that you can live with.

 

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Hi, can the AUS surgery be performed on stress incontinence
and/or Urge incontinence caused by OAB?

Thanks for all replies.