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I am a 58 year old male who thought he was fit and well until the beginning
of September. I came back from holidays on Saturday 4th feeling great but
on the Monday I felt feverish, hands shaking, slightly nauseous, the lot.
That night I kept getting up to urinate, something I didn't do more than
once per night before, and it burned slightly when I passed water. I went to
the Doctor the next day and he said I had a urinary infection and put me on
Ciprofloaxin, but I felt steadily worse and by Thursday I was wanting to
urinate every few minutes, but nothing much was happening. I was too bad to
leave the house to visit the Docs and he came to me, diagnosed a full
bladder and I went to hospital where I was catherterised. ( 1.5 litres) The
next day (Friday) I was seen by the ward urologist, put on Flomax and sent
home to return on Sunday to have the catherter removed. I did and it was,
but I continued to retain water so after a couple of hours the catherter was
replaced and I was sent home and told to return in two weeks. I went back
as instructed and after removal of the catherter I again retained water,
although I was now able to pass water myself normally, about 200 to 300 ml.,
without problem. The retention was steadily building up and after several
hours I had about 500 ml left in my bladder after urinating, so I was
catherterised again. The next morning the ward urologist told me that I had
BPH and also that my bladder had stretched, which was causing some
retention. When I asked if it would return to normal he said he hoped so.
He suggested that I try self-catherterisation and once I had the technique
off I was sent home and told to return at the end of November as an
out-patient to see how I was doing. I am now self-catherterising twice a
day. I don't seem to retain much water at all during the day (between 75 -
150ml) and at night I usually get up about 4am and do it for the second
time, passing on average 300-400ml by myself and 200 - 300 with the
catherter.
It seems I have two problems, BPH and an enlarged bladder, although the
bladder problem was probably caused over a long time by the BPH. Has anyone
else suffered similar symptoms and if so did their bladder eventually return
to normal size and stop retaining water after urination? Would TURP
procedure help the bladder return to normal? I don't think PVP is offered
in the area of UK (Teesside) I live.
I'm seeing my own doctor again next week and I'm going to ask to be referred
to a consulatant privately as I'm not sure I'll see one on the NHS, and I
would like to know my long term prospects and options. At the moment I have
not had any tests other than the manual digital examination on my first
admittance. Are there any tests that I should be asking for, that might
pertain to my symptoms?
I have taken anti-histamines since I was 18 for allergies - hay fever,
rhinitis etc - and I understand from looking at articles on the net that
this could affect the prostate, but the urologist did not seem particularly
interested when he asked what medications I was taking. Should I attempt to
live without them? I'm still taking Flomax, before bed to reduce unpleasant
side effects.
Sorry this has been long and thanks for bearing with me. Like everyone else
this sort of thing happens to I have been on a steep learning curve for the
last few weeks, trying to understand just what it is that crept up on me and
changed my life so quickly.
Thanks
Dan
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