Urinary incontinence

Short-term urinary incontinence is very common after radical prostatectomy, and long-term urinary problems may persist in up to 40% of men treated in this way. Newer surgical procedures and treatments such as Robot- assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy, and HIFU are reported to cause less erectile dysfunction and incontinence than radical surgery. Occasionally urinary incontinence follows other treatments such as radiotherapy or transurethral resection (fewer than 10% of men treated). Some of the men interviewed who had had a radical prostatectomy described the practical problems that they had encountered after their surgery. Also, men who had been treated with brachytherapy described their urinary symptoms after treatment.

Explains that he needed pads after surgery but things are mostly back to normal now.

Comments on an idea he had to avoid some of the embarrassing problems with incontinence.

Explains how his confidence is returning after initial urinary problems following Brachytherapy.

Describes how Detrusitol helped prevent urinary symptoms interfering with his life after Brachytherapy.

He was totally incontinent for the first six months after his prostatectomy. Then the problem started to get better.