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Posted 1/19/2018 7:42 PM (GMT 0)
You guys, I've only been a member a few days, but I've had ED for 25 years after prostate surgery. Looking at the helpful comments all of you have made I just want to say, (I'll only try this one time and know it may be kicked off), but what I want to say is CONGRATULATIONS to us --- We've all gone thru some tough times with this--- probably going to have more of the same. But we're hanging in there-- and trying to help each other the best we can. I don't get the feeling now and never have that we are just doing this for our own pleasure and gratification--I think most of us have sex life partners who are also depending on us-- and we are trying to meet their needs too. We want to live a normal life and we want our sex partners to do so, too. So I say CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OF US!!!
Posted 1/19/2018 8:11 PM (GMT 0)
Congrats to you for your 25 year anniversary! It is good to see someone here who is posting after 25 years! I hope to beat your record someday, but will take each day as it comes. Congrats again...keep fighting the goodfight! yeah
Posted 1/19/2018 10:04 PM (GMT 0)
Happy anniversary, 25! May all of us make it that far!
I’m very grateful you’ve started posting on ED here. Some PCa forum members have lamented that there’s not enough attention paid to ED on HW. It probably deserves its own forum, given how prevalent and debilitating the condition is, not limited to PCa tx SE and, as you said, afflicting our life partners as well. You have a great deal of experience and knowledge, no doubt, and I hope you’ll continue to share it with us.
Posted 1/20/2018 4:48 PM (GMT 0)
Guys, I swear I'm not going to try to monopolize these conversations, but I do have a couple of amusing and encouraging stories from these past 25 years so I'll pass a few along --if it's too much just tell me to ease off, okay? First,my initial PSA score--- I got back from a business meeting in San Diego (I'm in Milwaukee) with a painful case of prostatitis (sp?) My primary care guy sent me to a doc who was the premier urologist in my city at the time--he was 70 years old and had seen it all and done it all. He said "let's have a PSA", I said okay, so we did. The outcome was 27. I was too dumb to know that was pretty bad. He said "let's repeat that." I said"great" so we did-- outcome 26. So he did a biopsy and no surprise found positive results for cancer in the prostate. He suggested several possibilities, surgery one of them-- I said "how about surgery tomorrow?. He set it up pretty quick. He was assisted by his young doc associate ( who soon went to seminary to be a RC priest.) My doc was and is a staunch Catholic (95 yrs old), and as he went into the operating room, my wife ( we are not RC but Episcopalians) said to him " we are praying for you"-- he paused there and looked at her and "I'm glad you are." Seems like that worked out pretty good.
Posted 1/20/2018 6:30 PM (GMT 0)
Great story.

Let me just say.....peace is everything. When I forget that is when I run into ****.

welcome aboard and congrats on the 25
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