Vitamins

I take certrum silver and have been for the last sveral years (before surgery). However, I think that your Dad is on the right track with healthy diet and exercise. I believe that it will aid more in increasing energy that vitamins.

I have to tell you that I am taking a number of suppliment for PCa. My objective is not to increase energy.

I take suppliments because I believe that they may slow the growth of PCa tumors. There is a lot of evidence that diet impacts PCa both negitively and positively. This topic was discussed in a HW thread about 2 weeks ago. You should check it out.

There is a lot of information on diet/suppliments and prostate cancer on the internet it you want to find out more, just google it.

Best of luck to you and you father. BB

 

Thanks, Don. My Dad's a vegetarian so he's eating lots of egg whites and nuts.

L_Arginine, but your Uro should have already told your dad

He can either get some in the form of a pill thats available in the vitamin section of any supermarket or simply eat a 1/4 cup of walnuts each day

Aside from providing a lot of omega-3 L-Arginine produces Nitric Oxide which slightly lowers BP and increases blood flow

Just read an article tonight in our local paper about a 6 year research study by the National Cancer Institute involving 300,000 men. The findings just published reported that men who take multi vitamins were twice as likely to die as non users of vitamins. The article says that the incidence of prostate cancer is not changed but the malignancy of the tumor is increased by multi vitamin use.

Not sure what to make of it as it kind of shocked me when I read the article. He suggested just a good diet with fruit and vegtables. He said the multi vitamins are like giving cancer cells high octane fuel.

Michael

Thanks everyone. My Dad is a bit discouraged as the recovery rate is SLOW. It's been a week and I think he was hoping he'd be significantly better by now, but he says each day is so incremental. That's hard for me - my Dad likes to be more active.

How long before you all (or your loved ones) were able to return to normal?

aas,

my goodness, remind dad that he has just had a major and complex surgery. a week? sounds like he is doing good so far, but he is just at the starting stages of recovery. i am 20 months out of open surgery, and still not back to "normal", though i have had complications and have also gone through radiation since then my surgeon said realisticially, in the beginning, that it takes a good year for most men to get back to where they were before open surgery. before my complication set in, i would say his time schedule was right on track for me.

recovery is one day at the time, and without setbacks, he should continue to heal and get stronger with each passing day and weak, especially if he is fully compliant with the recovery advice of his doctors.

good luck to both of you

david in sc

AAS,

I agree with the rest who suggest that expectations are great, but reality is that surgery is surgery. I am 34 weeks out from my DaVinci (theoretically less impact than open, but since I spent 4 days before being able to go home, I would question that theory). My radiation has stopped me from improvement in some areas, but even before starting radiation at 25 weeks out, I was no where near the shape I had been in before surgery.

He just needs to take it easy and recover. Forcing the issue with too much activity too soon (i.e. when the doctor says no lifting over 5 pounds, etc., he means it) could potentially cause problems later on.

Encourage him to take time to relax and heal.