Dear Daughter, If you haven't already, you should tell your father that lots of families get involved with the patients with prostate cancer. It is natural to be concerned with the health of someone...
sarge... Please keep us posted on your experience and progress as this is, as you noted, a topic of concern. I guess I'm making uneven slow progress, but I often feel that my incontinence recovery is...
A short story here: I learned my father had prostate cancer that was fairly advanced and had metastasized to the hip bones. He had radiation, and was on Lupron, had an orchiectomy, was on Casodex. He...
Last advice is to be sure to use antibiotic ointment where the catheter comes out. You'll look back and be amazed at how smooth that blasted catheter thing went. Oh yes, the removal doesn't hurt and...
Biker, stay with us and many, many thanks for your thoughtful posts. I will follow your saga. Best, Val's spouse...
Thank you Sterd82 and Jerry for confirming what the Chief Resident told us on his rounds the day after surgery: Don't get discouraged, it is often simply a matter of time and could be 18 months. I...
I swear I read every post on this site and virtually everything I could find on the surgery and no where had anyone mentioned GAS pains. It caught us totally by surprise and frankly caused a good...
Yipes! I must have missed the uproar. As a spouse I've been so impressed with the guys who post here. This forum is a godsend, mostly because men will speak up and share enormously difficult and...
Danman, thanks for the update and congrats. It's details like these that make this site so very valuable. Your experience offers hope to all who are still in a more liquid state. So did you schlep...
Nancy, Sounds like our husbands are making the same lack of progress at 12 weeks. God bless him for putting his shoulder to the wheel, literally and figuratively, irrespective of the downside. I...
My husband doesn't seem real interested in walking. He's quite capable, but after work and dinner I think he's not feeling too energetic. He's still struggling with the drip, drip. If walking really...
As was said by Danman Bob, the anxiety before treatment is common. Your husband has the benefit of having his PCa caught early and thus the prospects of excellent outcomes are high. All these guys...
Yes for sure, read back through the various posts and you will find information that will help. I think all of us found comfort in the frank information and advice that has been offered here. The...
We live in Northern Virginia. Surgery at Fairfax Hospital, Fairfax, Virginia....
On the Gleason and stage upgrade, my husband's urologist warned him ahead of surgery that the thoroughness of the pathology analysis, as opposed to the sampling done in a biopsy, might well result in...
Nancy, and all -- We are on the exact same time frame. My husband is equally making no progress, but doesn't have the irritation issue. Someone a while back recommended "Calmoseptine" ointment, which...
Sounds like you are far enough away so that car travel is not an option. Something soft to sit on for sure. The catheter bags come in two sizes (at least), and a larger one might be advisable. First,...
Like so many, this forum was a main source of information and advice. And I'd agree, the post diagnosis period is so emotionally rough. Everything is going fine and then Boom! suddenly you've got...
My instructions were to apply Bacitracin or similar antibiotic ointment where the catheter comes out 3 times a day. It is also important that there not be stress on the catheter tube at the point....
My husband was 59 at diagnosis, but his PSA had been rising for a couple years and I'm certain that if he had undergone a biopsy his condition probably would have been caught sooner. I'm amazed at...
I was interested to read about others having weight loss. My spouse seemed light before the surgery (by about 7 lbs) and then lost more after not eating for a few days around the surgery and...
Welcome home from the Old Dominion. We found the catheter thing a lot easier than expected once I got the hang of it. Plenty of tips on this site. My wife kept track of the output and kept me...
Val's wife here. The time between diagnosis and treatment is so very hard. A biopsy is essential, probably along with a bone scan. My father was diagnosed with a metastatic condition affecting the...
Although my catheter functioned just fine, I too had leakage all along. I just started using the pads a bit earlier than I'd planned....
This is seeming very familiar. (Dates of surgery, age, condition) My husband's "progress" is similar. He is 5 weeks off the the catheter and not so sure how much better things are. I guess we all...
For jtp and others in the same boat: The period of deciding what to do is very stressful. Once you decide and have a date for treatment you will feel more relaxed. This site and the links have a vast...
Another spousal reply: You know of the numerous women I've talked to regarding the down side of prostate cancer, all, universally, totally, overwhelmingly, unanimously stated that they'd just be...
Guards for Men is enough, not a full brief. Knockoff not as good I decided. Now that I think about it, I was using the pads with the cath. (Oh, the things you forget so fast.) I was concerned but I...
New guy here too. We went to the post biopsy result meeting with the urologist sure that seed radiation was the way to go. Lots of subsquent research confirmed that each patients solution will depend...
New to the forum, but we've been reading the very, very useful posts for the past few months. On this subject, I was told to forego eating the entire day before, only clear liquids, then had the...