I’m just another lone voice crying in the incontinent wilderness. I had my RP in December 2020 at a military hospital. My focus was on getting rid of the cancer, so I was prepared for the incontinence theoretically. The first month was terrible, as I learned kegels and did lots of them every morning, even as I had lots of flow. By about three months, though, I was much more manageable, generally wearing only one pull-up during the day. However, my PSA came back positive, so I had 40 sessions of “salvage radiation.” At six months post-RP, I was down to only .1-.2 ounces per day of leaking, but the radiologist-oncologist warmed me that the treatments MIGHT make that worse. Boy howdy was he right. At three months post-radiation, my flow began a steady increase until I was at 40+ ounces of leakage per day at ten months post-radiation. By then, I had retired and transitioned to the VA, where I NEVER saw a VA urologist, only PAs. Fortunately, I found a great urologist outside with 30+ years of experience dealing with these issues, and the VA let me go to him. First he tried Botox, which reduced my flow to 15-20 ounces per day, but he stood ready to implant an AUS at my call. I waited eleven months after the Botox, as it was wearing off, to have the AUS surgery, which was 2.5 years after the RP and thousands of pads and pull-ups This urologist had written a chapter on the device and its surgery for one of the medical textbooks. I was in and out, and six weeks after surgery, it was like a miracle. I wish I had not waited as long as I did for the AUS. Hope this helps in your own decision-making.