Mark's Story
Talking to others who had partial nerve sparing surgery like me, it can take several months to regain a satisfactory degree of erectile performance. I'm trying a longer spell of Tadalifil to help but early stages of this.
As I'm retired, it was more about physical restrictions on what I could do until I regained the strength I had pre op. This took about 10 weeks - physically aside from erectile dysfunction (early doors) I am good. I'm very fortunate as did not have any incontinence issues.
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I was put off by the increased risk of many more side effects down the radiology route, particularly potential issues with bowel. This is why I went for surgery, as well as comfort of knowing that the cancer was being removed.
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