Good to see your progress Pnut, onwards and upwards as they say
Like you I had my TWOC a couple of days ago, was OK, more worried about stopping, than starting to pee. Glad to say they did it at a hospital closer to home than going back to London.
Having the catheter out was pretty painless, and as others say, a bit of an anti climax compared to what you psyche yourself up for.
It did kick off bleeding, that had gone away after the first two days home after the Op, which is proving to be disconcerting for the last few days, some days clear, other days blood and clots. Interesting to see Chris’ comment on over doing it, might be true for me π Tried weening myself off the paracetamol and laxatives, but think I might need to keep taking the laxatives a bit longer.
Incision doesn’t hurt at all, just sore where the prostate used to be. I tried doing the exercises that made it more uncomfortable, and may have contributed to the bleeding? So will pause those for a bit until things settle down.
Otherwise, all is OK, been walking and drinking water as suggested. Follow up with consultant is on 2nd Feb, so fingers crossed that will be good news, he was pretty positive after the op.
Hope those recovering or due for a similar op find this information useful, from reading other stories there are many variations of how it goes, I certainly found it helpful over the last couple of weeks to be able read what might or might not happen and what is “normal” or not. Thank you!