I think they broke my johnson

I had surgery on March 29th and I am losing weight just fine - that's not the problem....Ever since the surgery my urinary tract hasn't been right. On the first day of recovery the pain in my urethra from the catheter was unbearable. I kept using the morphine pump just to help dull the pain down there. I begged for them to take it out. They had to wait for permission from the doctor. When they finally did take it out there were strings of blood hanging off of it - I was horrified. In the hospital there was some blood in my urine and always pain everytime I urinated. After going home I didn't notice the blood so much anymore but there was still pain. They said this was normal and it would get better slowly but surely which it did. Then last week it started getting worse again, I also started noticing what looked like tiny globs of pink puss in my urine and lots of pain especially towards the end of a urination, *********** is even more painful! ughh! that really ****** me off. So I called my docs and they said go get a urinalysis done. I went to an urgent care, peed in the cup and the doctor there told me I don't have an infection, but that I need to go to the hospital right away because I am in lactic acidosis - that my body is eating itself. "It's a great surgery if it doesn't kill you" he said. "you are a dick" I said and left. I called my surgeon and he basically said the doc in a box doesn't know what the hell he is talking about and told me to increase my liquid and protein intakes and to take cipro antibiotic for three days. It has been three days now and no improvement. I'm going to call them back again tommorrow to see what to do next - I'm guessing I will be referred to a urologist.  I'm thinking that the catheter caused some serious trauma to my urethra or bladder. I can't tell you how concerning this is to me especially because of the sexual side effects. I haven't even shared this with my wife yet, she's probably pretty proud of herself after hearing me scream at climax - little does she know that those aren't cries of plessure but of agony. Has anything like this happened to anyone else? If so what was the cause and resolution? Mike

Well gee Mike I am having issues getting it up and now you have convinced me that I am fine after all. Thanks!!

Maybe getting it up will be easier after surgery. One of our fellow OH men's contributors whom I ran into at a Duke WLS group a few days before surgery informed me that as the fat is burned huge ammounts of testosterone that was stored in that fat is released. You can guess what all that extra testosterone in the bloodstream does to your drive....And now it is so painful for me I don't even want do anything about it

Hi Mike, I haven't had problems since surgery, but I have a lifelong history of bladder/kidney problems.  The blood and puss sure sound like an infection to me.  And, from personal experience I know that a simple urinary tract infection can become a much more serious bladder and/or kidney infection. Your surgeon was right to give you an antibiotic, but until they culture your urine, they won't necessarily know which antibiotic to give you.  Most docs start with a broad-spectrum antibiotic (like cipro), but that won't necessarily kill the specific virus or bacteria you may have. I would definitely see a urologist asap.  The pain is also a VERY common symptom of infection - and, it feels like someone is jabbing a sword up your **** slit.   Hopefully it's an infection that just needs some more specific diagnostic work before they can get you on the right antibiotic.   Keep us posted and let us know how it goes, Chuck

Hi Mike -  I can relate.  I also had issue with my bladder after surgery.  I am assuming it was from the cath.  After the first night in the hospital, they took out my cath.  I could not pee.  Not matter how hard I tried I just coulden't.  So after 8 hours of fluids and not being able to pee, I had to be cathed again.  So then they took it out and waited another 8 hours.  After 8 hours I STILL could not pee.  My bladder was so full I was in pain.  SO cathed again.  They told me I could not go home till I pee'd.  Finally on my last day I pee'd.  Every since then thou my bladder has been really weak.  I have to go more often and the stream is less.  Every month sinse surgery it has gotten better however and I am almost back to normal.  I just think it stressed it out or something.  I was more concerned about emptying my bladder from the pain, I didn't even notice the pain in my stomach!   SOOO cathed 3 times beat that...lol. Hope you get this worked out. Josh

Mike, No blood but, it hurt when I pee'd for week after my Lap-Band surgery. My gut was so swollen that ****** manual or mutual, was out of the question. I hadn't hurt like that since I had VD in the Philippines.  It wasn't until after it calmed down the I thought that I should have taken an Azo pill.  It's an OTC med chicks take for uniary infections.  It's basically, an anesthetic in your pee. Also, makes you pee funny colors. It's not a substitute for a doctor but, it might make things bearable unitl healed.