Have you crossed over to the Twilight Zone areas of PCa?

You can study this stuff literally forever and yet it may not give you personally the answers you are seeking, to know how is this going to effect me and/or when...etc.  Kbota recently posted the exact feeling of this living in limbo land and not knowing-ness.  Then say you add specialized drug therapies and how they may or may not work on a given patient or yourself...it gets more wild and fiction like than you can believe.  Now some of you don't have to cross this dimension of sight, sound and threshold of the Twilight Zone as you are are looking cured or have good looking total control. Even then don't turn you back on PCa or get to cocky (LOL-now there's the right word?)   This comes with lots of small print and no guarantees.  You will see abstracts contradict themselves or heavily biased or agendad and seldom done the way we patients would suggest...go figure...why ask us! 

 When you combine all aspects of PCa: diagnosis, psa, biopsies, pathology, nomograms, scans, protocols, various therapies....they all have there own issues of non-perfection and definitiveness.  Thus, it makes science fiction look just about equal or as much full of reality...thus the Twilight Zone...I think we should include it in our PCa vocabulary (LOL) along with 'Limbo Land'  (not knowing where you stand with psa changes or responses and duration of waitings).  Soon enough some new guy will join and his handle name will be Rod Serling or Twilight-Zoner or Limbo-Land, etc.    Considered that prophecy (lol).

Well maybe since there is a zero club and elsewhere a mile high club (lol), maybe we should start the Twilight Zone Club for those of us whom are held suspended in time with the unknowns of PCa.  Of course I wouldn't join club that would have me as a member (LOL!!!)

I do believe that 'Youth is Wasted on the Young'  (W.C. Fields)

 Oh I printed this off from another reply and now cannot delete it herein, so learn about this proceedure.

Cooled ThermoTherapy™/TUMT™ reduces BPH symptoms, preserves sexual function, and provides durable results using the Targis® system or the Prostatron® system. Treatment can be completed within 30 minutes, usually does not require anesthesia, and is performed in a physician's office or an outpatient setting.

In this treatment, a specially designed antenna inside a catheter is inserted into the prostate through the urethra. This antenna is used to direct microwave energy into the prostate to heat and destroy enlarged tissue. During the procedure, cool water is circulated through the catheter to minimize patient discomfort, protect adjacent urethral tissues from excessive temperatures, and reduce the risk for serious side effects.

Medication is often administered to reduce discomfort and help patients relax during the procedure. Many patients are able to read, watch television, or listen to music during treatment and some may experience the following:

• Bladder spasms
• Pressure in the rectum
• Sensation of needing to empty the bladder or have a bowel movement
• Warm or burning sensation in the abdomen or penis

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Thus you live in a kind of science fiction scenario of the unknowns.  Some of our other brothers seem to be traveling into the zone, via what they are discussing and the paranoia associated with the unknowns can be overlwhelming for many, maybe not all. Just read many of the discussions on the forum for a doseage of that reality. 

Hey it's great people see things differently, otherwise we would all be robotic like and wouldn't need any discussions (lol).  Would be boring as $#*& in that world.   Anyway carry on, you have some decent information that you share.