In January 2008, I had a radical prostatectomy. The pathology afterward seemed to indicate that the surgeon had caught all of the tumor, with no signs of cells outside the prostate (it was starting...
It's a subtle change. My first two tests were "LESS THAN 0.01." The surgeon says that the technology used in the lab tests can't really measure zero in an absolute sense, so this means, in effect,...
I'm roughly one year out from radical prostatectomy (January 20, 2009 - I was able to hear the inaugural speech before going to the hospital). I've had three post-surgery ultrasensitive PSA tests,...
We (my 40-years-sweetie and I) had the post-surgery follow up with the doc last Friday, 7-1/2 weeks after surgery. As noted below, PSA is great - evidence so far is the little dragon is gone, gone,...
Hang in there. I'm approaching two months out from a slightly different surgery. I went through some frustrations, but am now, as I put it in an e-mail to friends over the weekend, returning to...
Update: I went back and forth for quite a while, trying things that seemed to help for a few days and then not. Last week, my primary care doctor ordered a urine culture, to see if I had an...
I clearly haven't set up my profile right... Details: age 60 at diagnosis, surgery on Inauguration Day (January 20, 2009) Gleason 3+3 before surgery, 4+3 from pathology, T2a tumor growing into but...
I had the catheter in for nine days, and am now almost three weeks out from its removal (and was I EVER glad to see that thing leave!). I was at Stage 1 continence (lying down/sitting) immediately,...