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Posted 5/9/2013 6:31 PM (GMT 0)
Hi guys,

Having posted before under "Prostate cancer - E.D. problems", I found that we are always talking about the same problems, the medical solutions to our problems, and all this may add more anxiety to ourselves because we are trying to compare our situation with another's  which is wrong of course. Each one of us is a different medical case and needs diverse healing time.

How about starting discussing also about the way we handle the real feelings overwhelming us after the prostatectomy in the real life. Since there are friends that maybe in a worse situation, let's try to see the positive side in each one's story.

I'm looking forward hearing from you.

Keep on fighting !!!1

Posted 5/10/2013 4:19 AM (GMT 0)
The biggest thing for me is that after six years of HT I'm really getting fatigued easily. I can't garden more than two hours at a stretch then I'm in for a 3hour nap. that's not too bad for a "Biggest" complaint so I figure that I'm doing great . . .Q
Posted 5/10/2013 8:36 AM (GMT 0)
Positive thinking -> "It is what it is."

"Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference."
Posted 5/10/2013 2:43 PM (GMT 0)
Humor--you have to laugh to keep from crying sometimes.  When I was in the acute ED and incontinence stages of my recovery I used to tell people that my surgery made me physically stronger.  Before surgery when I got an erection I couldn't bend it at all.  Post surgery I could tie it in a knot smilewinkgrin .  Or people would ask if I preferred boxers or briefs after my surgery and I just said "Depends".  Friends gave me a t-shirt with people sitting around a campfire roasting wieners with the saying "Its all fun and games until someone loses a wiener".  I still wear that shirt to every one of my PSA tests.  Its brought me luck so far!

Keep smiling,

Tom 

Posted 5/10/2013 9:04 PM (GMT 0)
Steve n Dallas,

I agree with you. This prayer was always my guide after the prostatectomy. Faith in God really helped a lot.

Thanks a lot for your reply.

Posted 5/10/2013 9:16 PM (GMT 0)
quincy17,

We are almost the same age and still under repair. I'm still facing problems with incontinence and I'm always complaining to my  urologist that he may have connected wrong vessels. When I was also under HT, during the hot greek summer I was feeling like I was in a fridge and during the winter I felt like was lying at a Bahamas beach.

Keep on the repair. We shall see light at the end of the tunnel soon.

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