Does anyone know how long bi-mix can go without refrigeration and what the shelf-life is when refrigerated? Thanks...
Speaking for myself, it's so easy to get caught up in "research overload". I fully expect to read a study about likelihood of recurrence based on the day of the week one is diagnosed....
I had robotic 12/07, and fortunately am still < 0.01 and making minor, yet incremental progress in ED. For the first two months following surgery I was pretty severely incontinent, but within four...
I've been looking for the same thing. I even emailed Tena and told them that there would be a significant market for a pad shaped like the Male Guard, but thinner, like a female "light days" product....
To the "longer-timers" around here... I'll be two years out of RRP this coming December. I have been steady at needing (or at least thinking I need) one pad every 24 hours for several months now....
Clearly regular PSA's are required not only for the specific value, but the trend and to potentially identify "background noise" or lab tech error. In my case my one (1) year post RRP my...
Congrats... Just had my sixth test come back yesterday, <0.01. Great way to start the weekend....
Just in case anyone else ends up on my roller coaster, here's at least one example of a good outcome... In December I had my one year visit following RRP and it's associated PSA draw. Much to my...
While there are no doubt more sites to surf on the subject, I thought why not go to the likely best resource. There are several remarks about "other" sources of PSA, I was wondering if anybody has...
Well... Got a call from my GP, and it's still AT 0.01 (not less than), using the same lab as always which uses the Beckman Coulter assay. So apparently something is causing it to be somewhat...
Assuming that I see a favorable (and by that in my case I define favorable as <0.01, YMMV) number from my own "maverick" test, I am going to have a detailed discussion with my urologist/surgeon about...
Thanks fellas... Clearly there is some "slop" somewhere in the whole procedure, as digging on the net I have found several testimonials about similar variations. One guy has a 5 year history with...
I posted something about this, albeit in a slightly different vein some weeks ago, but after three post-surgical PSA's (following RRP 12/07) of <0.01 I had the latest come in AT 0.01, which true to...
My son's Cub Scout Pinewood Derby is coming up soon, where the car can't weigh more than 5 oz, so I bought a sensitive scale so I don't have to run to the post office during construction. :rolleyes:...
G: Oh believe me...I get it. Between my biopsy and my surgery I had ALL kinds of "phantom" pains, leading me to believe that the hand grenade had already gone off. Then after my surgery and pathology...
I'm a little over a year out, and have been periodically having fairly sharp pains that seem to emanate from where the prostate used to be. Anybody else, and theories on the cause? TIA...
Dave: The < symbol denotes "less than". In this instance, I have been told that the "ultra sensitive test" (aka: diagnostic/DX) is "accurate" down to in effect 0.009, not including the inherent...
I am one (1) year out, and after three <0.01 PSA's (all from the same lab) I recently got a 0.01. Of course I was bummed, and at my scheduled one year visit we discussed the issue at length. First,...
I for one see a marketing opportunity for somebody. I am in the "one pad a day club", in so much as I am for all practical purposes continent, but am too chicken-excrement to go pad free due to the...
Just got back from my surgeon who said that he sees the labs leave the < symbol off "all the time", and that if not that, it's simple "background noise" and well within the range of error for several...
Thanks all... I have an appointment this week with my surgeon to discuss the implications. I assume he'll order another one immediately to see if it was just background noise. I did read that with...
Just got back my third (and one year out) PSA. The nurse relayed that it was "0.01" instead of "less than 0.01" as in the pat three tests. Should I be concerned, or is that typical, and the infamous...
Ups4: I get the loss of energy thing, and while it can be a multitude of things, it may well be the background noise of what we went through. I synchronize global commerce myself, albeit on the air...
They took 18 from me, which considering they were clean was a great relief. I think they grab as many as they can while they're there, and I would have been upset if they didn't take some....
Funny you should bring this up. After almost a month of post-RRP urinary Hell, I all of a sudden went from as many as 7 pads a day down to one, which is where I've been pretty much for the last seven...
I was told that I couldn't get any additional for at least a year after the operation...if then....
I'm just passing the eight month mark after RRP, and on the whole things are going pretty well. On the cancer front, things so far couldn't be better, which considering that was my #1 priority ahead...
I was in the same boat as you, and after going through it I'll say that the comments here are spot on. It may NOT be cancer (could be good ole' fashioned swollen prostate which all men get...
I'm in much the same boat as you, including stage and age. I had my robotic last December and am still not pad free, but what they call "socially continent" in that I wear one thin pad a day mainly...