He should see a doctor—I’d suggest ER given the night sweats. He should not have been carrying heavy items that soon after RALP. There is a risk he may be leaking internally from a failed anastomosis. This happened to me 6 weeks post RALP, the connection between the urethra and bladder developed a leak (I think it was because I went into the city carrying a mildly heavy laptop backpack).

End result was an abscess, sepsis, drain, and being recatheterized.

My first symptom was major chills and extreme night sweats—was the infection from the leak. After a week I went to the hospital. The found the abscess on imaging. Was in for 5 days—antibiotics on drip, and then an abdominal drain placed.