9 Weeks Post Surgery, Christmas Approaching

Well its been 9 weeks and good progress is being made.

The arm seems to now be settling down with the rest its had and isnt playing me up as much. No ibuprofen needed. Has meant I can now exercise more.

Continence - controlling this really well, so much that yesterday I tried goign all day without a pad with only a slight problem with a couple of sneezes. Being at home it was no great deal. However today as i was in and out of the house I decided a pad was needed for comfort. I am now going all night without a pad though which is really great. Also, sleeping a lot better and only getting up once during the night to use the loo. Can also drink until going to bed without worrying.

Penile burning sensation and occasional flow issue? I am getting a burning sensation in my uretha, will have to see what the consultant says when I go back in january. If it carries on over Christmas I may drop a urine sample in to the GP to make sure I havent picked up some kind of infection. Though this could be related to the BPH and Prostatitis that showed up on the pathology report.

ED - still no erections that would be good enough for penetrative sex but this is to be expected. A member of one of the support forums who had the same op and surgeon as myself said it took 5 months for him and then he woke up with a morning one. So time will tell. Blood flow is there and the 5mg of Cialis that I have been prescribed daily may well be working. Lot of guys use VEDs and others use Caverjet injections .

More exercise and less use of ibuprofen is exposing the healing pains more. Also when stretching I am still getting a niggling pain in the lower right abdomin. This is the same place that i have been getting the pain since the operation and when the drain was taken out. Weird. It is the worst of any of the internal pains and I would have thought it would have gone by now. Hopefully I havent pulled anything.

Task this week was to renew my Bupa membership , have done this to make sure I am covered for the next years treatments\monitoring.

Time to put up the Christmas lights and decorations. To save driving ordered the tree online.
Spoken with work today and had my annual review. Went ok. Going back on 2nd Jan 2013 - gonna take it easy and get fitter before I go back. I may not be in the office but lots going on to prepare for 2013 and work.