My husband who is spinal cord injured and has had other urinary issues prior to the prostate cancer surgery, uses the Bioderm Liberty external catheters. These are the catheters that the astronauts...
My husband has Medicare as his primary insurance and BC/BS as his secondary. Although he is not 65 yet, he has coverage because of his spinal cord injury disability. He had sepsis following the...
My father-in-law passed away Oct 14 from advanced prostate cancer. I was with him every day the last 3 months of life. He had had prostate cancer for 17 years with bone mets the last two years. He...
Just a quick note....I had written last week that my father in law was near death. He was diagnosed 17 years ago. He had his testicles removed at that time and has received hormone treatement and...
Thanks for all of your imformative replies. Yes, 17 years is a long time following his diagnosis of lymph node involvement and he is very lucky to have lived this long...thanks to care received at...
Where besides bones does prostate cancer metastasize? My father in law is now receiving Hospice care for his advanced prostate cancer which is in the pelvix, thoracic, lumbar spine as well as femurs....
Thanks for your imformation. Everyone is so smart at this site and so willing to share your knowledge....
How does the VA determine if your prostate cancer was from agent orange? Just wondering since my husband was a Vietnam vet but also has a strong family history of prostate cancer....
My husband was treated with oral anitbiotic before his biopsy and also after the biopsy. He had the biopsy at 11:00 on a Thursday and awakened on Sunday morning with raging fever. He was septic and...
My father in law as well as my husband have prostate cancer. My father in law has bone mets....lumbar, thoracic spine, pelvis and femurs. He is now taking ketaconazole and recieves monthly zometa...
My father-in-law was diagnosed at age 75. The cancer was in the lymph nodes. He was treated by removing his testicles. He got along really pretty well until about the last 8 years. The cancer is all...
Thank you Swim and if you can come up with some reason why Ron has had such a reaction from oral iron please post for us. It is a reaction similiar to a Niacin reaction in able bodied folks. The docs...
Ron has tried all forms of iron....slow release, ferrous glulconate, prescript ion iron...anything out there he has tried. His reaction isn't a GI reaction but rather his blood pressure rises, he...
Thanks for your replies.....Ron eats raisins by the handful, lots of green leafy vegetables and we have started eating a couple of servings of red meat a week...in addition to lots of other foods...
I was wondering if anyone else has had iron deficient anemia following prostate surgery. My husband had surgery last April 2008 In January 2009 at an annual physical with his internist, the blood...
My husband is 5 foot 4 inches.....his father who also has prostate cancer is 5 foot 5 inches...that isn't very tall....
My husband did self cathing for 12 years because of a spinal cord injury. In April 2008, he had prostate cancer surgery. Since the surgery he has been so incontient that he no longer has to self...
Both Ron's father and grandfather had PC....one of his first cousins has it as well....
My husband, Ron had radical prostate surgery in April. He was spinal cord injured in 1995 and had bladder issues prior to prostate cancer because of his injury. His urologist said his bladder muscle...