Re:: Post Surgery- Incontinence Experience Feedback?

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Seems like very good advice. T Poxon Check with your doctor, but I would not recommend running for quite a while. After any abdominal surgery, you want to put as little stress on the healing tissues as possible -- which is why you should get up every hour or so after sitting in a chair and go lie down, taking the pressure off your pelvic organs and muscles. In the case of radical prostatectomy, the most delicate part that's healing is the anastomosis: the place where the surgeon stitched your urethra to your bladder after removing the prostate, which used to be in the middle. You really don't want to jeopardize that by jiggling everything up and down. :-) If your gym has an elliptical trainer, you might try that instead of a treadmill, since it's a smooth, no-impact exercise.I had my RP two weeks ago, and they removed the catheter 9 days after surgery. Luckily for me, and/or due to my surgeon's amazing skill, incontinence has not been a problem, although I'll wear pads inside my briefs for a while, until I lose the fear that I'm going to leak. I haven't been back to the office yet (I can work online from home) because of the need to lie down often.--Phil