Bladder Spasms

A few days after my da Vinci the wife did call an ambulance as I was in agony with stomach / abdominal pain. I got a paramedic followed by an ambulance, the paramed gave me 30 mg morphine and I had a trip in an ambulance to hospital, after five or six hours I was discharged no longer in pain with the words "we never find the cause of abdominal pain in 30 percent of emergency patients".

I think mine turned out to be constipation and I have never had the same level of pain since, that was over two years ago. My bowels have never quite got back to my pre-op days and I frequently get mild constipation and moderate abdominal pain.

You mention swelling of the penis, how often and at any particular time or event ?

What sort of surgery did you have ?

I was given oxybutynin for bladder spasms.

Good news on the PSA.

Thanks Chris

Hi Andy
I am coming up to 14 months post op and can honestly say I've not had a pain free day yet in the bladder area. This sometimes spreads to feel like stomach ache aswell. Every filling of my bladder hurts and every wee hurts after all this time. My surgeon and GP have put this down to " adhesions " whereby whilst you are healing certain parts become attached to each other , whereas they normally slide over each other. There is nothing they can do about it and it can right itself apparently over a long period. I can be in a lot of pain in the morning when I need both a poo and wee. Something definitely ain't right down there. You have my sympathy.

We did have a member who went touring Europe on his motorcycle not too long after his RARP, I do not recall him having too many issues. Hopefully Sildeafil will cause swelling of the penis, but without any pain. If you read my profile you will see I have had a few issues. My painful and swelling penis was a result of a punctured urethra and only happened when passing urine. Hem-o-lok clip migration is quite rare but mine started causing issues three months post op but was accompanied with water infections,but it could be a possible cause of spasms.

Hope your appointment comes through quickly, we are lucky to have a team of Uro/onco nurses we can ring any time and get a reply the same day or next working day.

Thanks Chris

The main issue with motorbike riding too soon after the op is the strain on your still healing stomach and pelvic muscles, which were cut during the op. So the problem is only likely to be down to getting on your bike too soon if you have a particularly heavy bike. John has a Harley and it was about 4 months before he could safely hold the weight of it. Depending on what you do for a living, I would be more concerned that you set back your recovery by returning to work too soon - or did you try to drive a car at 5 weeks? Pulling on the steering wheel xan out a lot of tension on abdominal muscles.

Did the hospital check whether you had popped something? Hernia is a significant risk after RP or as Chris says, this type of pain can be down to adhesions.

Very interesting reading this. It got me thinking what happened with me. I think I passed a hem o lok clip. Something until now I had no idea was used. Maybe they don't in UK. I hadn't thought or asked about the detail of stitching repairing etc.

The only reason I knew is I kept a note of the amount of urine and clarity . As you do !! So peed into a glass jar. I was passing for about 2 weeks after I had catheter out. I noticed a very very small . About 1mm . I could hardly see it. I didn't keep it. At the time I thought maybe just a piece of bladder lining or similar, I never passed blood.

About 30 seconds later. Crippling pain. Never had anything like it in my life. As another posted states. Yes 9.5 out of 10. Perspiration pouring off forehead and shaking. I was in house alone and no position would relieve it. Thankfully it very slowly subsided after about 3 minutes.

I just found this ..

https://www.cancercompass.com/message-board/message/all,74403,0.htm

I did go to A & E later that night. However it disappeared as quickly as it came.

I've been thinking of you as we are going through recovery from John's ureter reimplntation op because his spasms are once again excruciating, some of it is due to the kidney stents and some due to having two catheters. He's also passing loads of so called kidney sludge. It's much worse when he hasn't been to the loo or if he has wind so the bowel does have a huge impact on the pain. I hope they can do something for you. For us, it's a case of waiting foe the stents to be removed in about six weeks or so and managing with the help of tramadol in the meantime

Best wishes

Devonmaid

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