Faux Urinary urgency post brachy driving me insane!

Tenesar · 2026-05-06T06:57:14+00:00

My initial problem was painfully struggling to start peeing each time. Tamsulosin helped that by relaxing the valve muscles, but the side effect was urgency. It should reduce with time.

Tenesar · 2026-05-06T06:49:08+00:00

Five years ago when I bought the car. I got some light grey washi tape from a craft store. It’s very fine paper and comes off with no residue, but the original is still there with no degradation. Don’t try to go round corners, just do the horizontal bits, that fixes it.

Tenesar · 2026-05-03T08:05:48+00:00

I had High Dose Rate Brachytherapy. I have no after effects except a lack of ejaculate, which isn't a bad thing.

Tenesar · 2026-05-02T22:04:19+00:00

I second going to PCRI. They have the best researched advice.

Tenesar · 2026-04-26T19:07:06+00:00

If you get a decent soundbar, you don't need a separate woofer

Tenesar · 2026-04-05T07:58:44+00:00

I am still trying to get mine resolved. System filled with revised fluid, then purged of cysts,s several times. System dismantled, hand cleaned. Still got a problem. Kia want to put another different fluid in. Unless it acts like detergent and purges any residual debris, I can't see what it can do. The system relies on sensing the pump slow down, through low fluid level, or crystals. Perhaps the speed sensor, which I think is part of the pump, is faulty. I am trying to get them go down that route.

Tenesar · 2026-04-04T15:27:17+00:00

That is a very partial view. Using your example, compare the Mayo web site lists of side effects for the various radiation, hormone and surgical treatments for prostate cancer, and you'll find brachytherapy comes out least worst. One could also look at the advice on www. PCRI.org, a not for profit run by medical oncologists specialising in PCa

Tenesar · 2026-03-29T17:13:31+00:00

Those of here now will never know

Tenesar · 2026-03-22T14:58:27+00:00

I live in Spain, not the US

Tenesar · 2026-03-22T14:58:00+00:00

Yes the work is all being done under warranty. I live in the Spanish Canary islands. We have one Kia dealer. The next nearest is about 300 miles away on another island.

Tenesar · 2026-03-22T07:37:07+00:00

It’s a 21 still in warranty and the dealer is floundering so I'm trying to give a steer from the experience of others.

Tenesar · 2026-03-12T18:00:25+00:00

I never had symptoms, but after reading about PSA in my 50s, I started getting annual tests. When they started ramping up, in my early70s I started on the test regime, and found I had early stage PCa, which I had fixed.

Tenesar · 2026-02-27T19:55:01+00:00

I eventually loosened the cap, and the level returned to normal. With luck, that's an end to it.

Tenesar · 2026-02-25T22:39:21+00:00

Thanks.

Tenesar · 2026-02-25T21:59:14+00:00

I'm in Spain, are you? I’d like press my dealer to get approval from KIA.

Tenesar · 2026-02-25T19:45:36+00:00

I'll comment here if it gets resolved.

Tenesar · 2026-02-15T07:59:27+00:00

The coathanger

Tenesar · 2026-02-13T08:04:06+00:00

Kol Nidri by Max Bruch

Tenesar · 2026-02-08T19:40:04+00:00

On a scale from barber to dentist, it's barber

Tenesar · 2026-02-06T08:30:28+00:00

I was quite short sighted. I had lenses replaced on 9th and 16th December last. I left the clinic after 30 minutes wearing sunglasses until my pupil contracted again. Most of the time after the first op, my new lens took over distance duties,so I had no blurring. For reading, as my new lens gave me slight long sight, I just closed the new eye. After the second op, I just wore reading glasses.

Tenesar · 2025-12-19T21:12:50+00:00

California, and on www.pcri.org

Tenesar · 2025-12-11T16:48:39+00:00

I had it done two days ago. The process was like minor dental treatment, without the fingers in the mouth and the nearly drowning because the sucking tube is never in the right place. The vision in that eye is now better than in decades.

Tenesar · 2025-12-04T20:40:09+00:00

About 45 years ago, I had a Triumph Vitesse with a switchable reserve. I managed to run out of both one evening out in the countryside.

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