Thursday night and early Friday morning I had increasing difficulty urinating. My enlarged prostate had reacted to anesthesia, pain killers and whatever and swelled so that my urethra was pinched closed.
As it began to close down, I stopped taking the pain killer pill. The pain wasn’t bad and I felt sure that the blockage of urine was being made worse by the pain killers. (Who knows whether it was the pain killer or a delayed response to the anesthesia and pain killers administered during surgery.)
From around 9 PM until 4 AM I was basically unable to urinate. I would try for 15 minutes; dribble a few drops; go back to bed; and within 15 minutes have another urge to pee. I was considering going to the ER to have a catheter placed to allow the urine to drain from the bladder. Fortunately, by 4 AM I began to be able to urinate and conditions improved continually.
Later in the day, the recovery nurse called to see how I was. She recommended calling my urologist (Dr. Kozlowski, NMH) and discussing the issue with him before the major surgery coming up on the 12th.
He said the only thing to do is to leave the catheter in for a number of days after the surgery. He instructed me to have him notified when I am admitted for the surgery.
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