Roger Monk
Ashtead Hospital
Aquablation Therapy
Urology
My Name is Roger Monk, I am 80 years old and had Aquablation therapy at Ashtead Hospital in June 2024.
During the previous six months I found that my energy level was reducing. I like to swim and cycle to keep fit and found that I was becoming slower at both. At the time I put this down to my age. I arranged to have a blood test at my local surgery in April 2024. The results were not good, I received a phone call from my GP. She told me that my recent blood test showed that my kidney function was very poor, and that my blood pressure had recently become very high. I contacted the nearest private hospital and spoke to a urology consultant – Mr Micheal Wanis. He gave me an appointment to see him within two hours, He diagnosed what was wrong with me immediately. I was suffering with urine retention due to an oversized prostate gland. He arranged for me to be admitted to the urology assessment department of The East Surrey Hospital that evening.
After speaking to the doctors and consultants I learned about Aquablation therapy and that the best method was for this to be carried out privately by a water jet cutting robot. I spoke to Mr Wanis about this and he offered to carry out this procedure at Ashtead Hospital. There was an eight week delay while my kidneys recovered.
I was admitted to Ashtead hospital on 27th June and the procedure was carried out later that day under full anaesthetic. That evening, back in my room Mr Wanis told me that the procedure went very well. The whole procedure was painless and I had no bruising. I spent the next two days in the hospital under observation and I was then discharged.
All staff at this hospital were very friendly and welcoming. The nurses were very helpful and professional they looked after me very well.
After a few weeks my energy level was back to normal and I am now able to enjoy walking, gardening and cycling again. I do not need to keep getting up during the night to go to the toilet every two hours, now I last five hours.
My advice to any man in a similar situation with an enlarged prostrate is not to delay treatment. I consider that I was very lucky that all of the professionals looking after me were so good at their jobs.
