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Hi Paul, I just read your post and wish I had come upon this prior to my Green Light which was done on August 21.  After about a year of not being able to go and being on a catheter and self cathing since January, my urologist, the best in this area, recommended this procedure.  I went in on the morning of the 21st & had a spinal block as my anesthesia.  I am one of those persons that if it can go wrong, it will.  My blood pressure sky rocketed and had the staff jumping.  I was finally stabilized and released to go home.  I was home a short while before I started vomiting.  My wife took my blood pressure and it was going back up.  At about 5:30 my heart rate was 157 so we headed for the ER.  I was having a heart attack which did damage.  After being in the hospital for 1 week with the catheter still in, I was released and went back to my urologist to have it removed.  Now I am experiencing incontinence.  I am not feeling the urge to urinate and most of the time I can't tell I am.  My doc put me on Symbalta which caused a UTI -- possible side effect listed on the info.  I am now off that but am still on rapiflow.  My question to you is with your experience will the incontinence end?  Will I be able to throw away the Depends?  I have discussed this with my urologist and he assures me I will, but I need to hear it from someone who has been there.  Thanks, Mike
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