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What is penile rehabilitation?
Penile rehabilitation (also called erectile rehabilitation) simply means using medicines or devices to help improve your erections after prostate cancer treatment.
Regain your ability to achieve natural or spontaneous erections.
Achieve erections using ED pills or penile injections.
Achieve erections using pro-erectile devices such as penis pumps.
The goal of penile rehabilitation is to help you:
You can think of penile rehabilitation like any kind of physical therapy or exercise. It’s similar to doing guided exercises after knee replacement or shoulder surgery.
Most men will experience some urinary problems immediately after radiation therapy which may last several months. These problems include:
Needing to urinate (pee) often (urinary frequency).
Suddenly feeling you have to urinate (urinary urgency).
A burning sensation when you urinate.
Having a hard time urinating, or feeling like you need to push it out.
Blood in your urine.
Fortunately, these symptoms tend to be short-term and by 12 months, most men will return to their urinary function before treatment. Recovery is usually faster for men getting HDR (high dose rate) brachytherapy compared to those getting LDR (low dose rate) brachytherapy.
Brachytherapy for prostate cancer may cause some changes to your sexual function, like:
Erectile dysfunction (ED), which often develops over time after treatment is finished.
Painful ejaculation, which may be short term or long term.
Rusty-coloured semen, in the short term.
Learn more about sexual changes after radiation therapy.
Some men will experience an irritated rectum (back passage), but this is usually mild. Some men also have bleeding from the back passage. These symptoms are more common when brachytherapy is given as a boost to external beam radiation. Other effects can include:
Diarrhea.
Passing gas (or farting), more than usual.
Needing to go to the toilet (bathroom) more often.
Leaking a clear, jelly-like mucus from your bottom.
A feeling that you haven’t fully emptied your bowels, and there’s more that needs to come out.
Fatigue experienced during radiation therapy is usually mild but can get in the way of everyday life.It will go away after treatment ends but may take several weeks. Exercising has been shown to reduce fatigue during radiation.
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