Welcome, although we hate to have you here. I'm a bit surprised your oncologist didn't mention seeds given your relatively low Gleason and PSA. I would also wonder about a "group" count of 400...
Welcome. You have got a lot of good advice here, also notice the link at the top of the discussion topics which has many good resources for learning more. Let me strongly support you in your concern...
Welcome! We have many concerned family members here and your dad is lucky to have your help in collecting information. Both HT and radiation can have the side effect of fatigue but individual...
Good luck in what is to come, but also congratulations for your courage in sharing with your wife and family. Sometimes it is too easy to be a jerk and think that you have to "man up" alone. I hope...
Beer is best Beer is best Beer makes you big, makes you strong Puts more muscle in the old ding-dong Beer makes bonny babies Puts hair upon your chest (big chest) What did Adam say to Eve, but Beer...
Euripides said it best: "Count no man cured until he is dead"...
Welcome to the club that hates to get new members. This is not a medical diagnosis, but based on the experience of others, radiation seems to be what most doctors would recommend. You are right that...
If people actually paid attention to probabilities, the casinos of the world would be empty and the lotteries would have no players. The overwhelming majority of players are just throwing their money...
The NY Times article in medved's post is a very good and extensive discussion which tries to balance the small risk of dying from PCa with the much larger risks of reduced quality of life that come...
Here is another try at posting the link http://www.healingwell.com/community/default.aspx?f=35&m=1717641 It works for me....
I think that the evidence for lifestyle changes is stronger than that for pomegranate, so if you are looking for a "no sweat" aid, forget it. If you are using it as an additional support, it is...
Blood loss sufficient to require a transfusion is a very rare complication. Even in open surgery transfusion is needed in fewer than 1% of the cases. With your husband's PSA and Gleason there is no...
A new study shows that the percent of men who are sexually dysfunctional after treatment for prostate cancer is considerably higher than many quoted figures. Fewer than half of the men who were...
Amen If this year's PCa victims were to die in a building destroyed by terrorists, the entire world would take notice and be moved to action. Dying singly, mourned by family and friends, they tend to...
I am now 2 1/4 years post surgery. Two weeks ago I went in for my regular blood draw and last Friday I saw my doctor. Usually the PSA results arrive in the mail before my appointment and this time...
According to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office the expiration date is 27-Mar-2012. http://www.uspto.gov/patents/resources/terms/156.jsp As you might guess with so much money at stake, there are...
Ok, so now we are going to expand having "secret off-limits" topics known only to the moderators. But where does this stop? What else will be censored for the protection of the poor child-like...
Oh boy, you sure nailed what happened to me after diagnosis. I had mysterious pains everywhere. While they were doing my bone scan the nurse asked "do you have pain in your right shoulder?" And, wow,...
At three weeks I had a plastic garbage bag on the seat of my car (only needed it once) just in case. Progress will happen -- but at different speeds for different people. The hardest thing to get...
"Sometimes I laugh so hard that the tears run down my leg" Yes, we have to laugh in the face of adversity. Sure our lives have changed, but they are still our lives. If you are not looking for the...
As you can tell - post operative experience of and reaction to incontinence and impotence vary widely. My main suggestion is communication. Remember that the most important sex organ is the brain and...
JNF nailed the most important sources, but also know that this is a caring community. Each of us knows that "hit upside the head" feeling of a cancer diagnosis and the importance of going on with...
"discharged" by your uro at three months? I haven't seen such a thing. I'm past two years and my uro is still monitoring me every 6 months. You should consider finding a new doctor....
Four pads a day is not whining -- it puts you way out of the normal range. definitely time for a serious talk with your doctor...
Hey, every one of us has had a ride on that roller coaster -- an important thing is to realize that you can't help your feelings, but you can talk to your self about them. Ask, "what an I feeling"...
Let me speak to my experience with Ritalin. I have been taking 10mg four times a day for over ten years for ADD. In part, this means that that my brain may respond differently to it, but here it is....
Your husband is definitely on the high end of cases where watchful waiting would be recommended, but it is not out of the question. Dietary changes are likely to be overall good even if not specific...
If you look at the nomograms you will probably find that your chance of 10-year non recurrence is over 80%. If you live in NYC, crossing streets is more dangerous. Good luck....
I learned how to operate a backhoe about 55 years ago and did it off and on for about 10 years so I do have an idea of what you are talking about. You can get quite a bit of bouncing and jerking...
If you are a veteran with something like agent orange exposure the chances are better. There are some guys here with experience with the VA...
When I see something like I found on this site: "advocates discussing medical options and treatments for serious medical conditions?" It triggers both my gag and vomit reflex and my run screaming...
At the risk of taking this forum off-topic I'll give a reply about migraines. Several years ago my doctor put me on the antidepressant Cymbalta and my migraines stopped. When I asked him about this,...
I eat a lot of broccoli both cooked and raw and have never had a suggestion that it increased leakage. This is not to say that you are wrong but perhaps you should expand your analysis before...
First of all, relax -- whatever the situation is, you will deal with it. Most Extraprostatic Extensions are microscopic -- measured in 1/10ths of a mm. This means that any cells that were left were...
First of all, welcome to the group that hates to get new members Prostate cancer tends to be very slow slow so a wait of two weeks will make no difference. With a PSA of 6 your husband is in a group...
First of all, know that we are here for you long term. If your thread slides off the list, you can always start another because we care about people, not threads. Everyone here has faced that "hit...
You will see that I am a surgery guy (with worse stats than yours) but my younger brother, at about your age, did seeds. He is now over six years out and reports almost no PSA, and side effects well...
Hey, last week I went to a baseball game without "going." Along about the sixth inning my wife, remembering last year with three trips a game, asked if I needed to go, but I didn't. I didn't even...
First of all, Call your doctor and ask. He can't treat you if he doesn't know what is going on. If I had to make a non-MD guess (at this point you are stupid if you read any further) I would suspect...
Deb First things first -- Welcome! This is a group where every person knows the "hit upside the head" feeling of a diagnosis of prostate cancer. Second, this is a group that is very committed to...
At 50 bucks for 95 pages I would say that this is commercial rip-off rather than scientific reporting. JH should be ashamed for preying on the sick...
As a fellow engineer I must warn you that your fixation on historical texts suggests a serious turn for the worse. A sane engineer would be writing Lagrange resolvents for cubic equations or deriving...
After over two years of watching this forum I would agree that open and robotic are in pretty much of a tie and in this case the decision goes to the doctor in whom you have the greatest confidence....
Welcome. At your dad's age, Lupron seems like the right thing to try and the PSA drop confirms this. Many of us here have great support from the women in our lives and your dad is lucky to have you....
My doc explained that when he re-attaches the urethra he makes it a bit tight because healing causes it to open up. At your stage I was about 40% of pre surgery but after about 8 months I was tat...
A search on Medline gets nothing for Phellodendron amurense, the name of the tree, so this must be very preliminary research....
Just for the record, imipramine (melipramine) is sold as Antideprin, Deprimin, Deprinol, Depsol,Depsonil, Dynaprin, Eupramin, Imipramil, Irmin, Janimine, Melipramin, Surplix, Tofranil On the other...
A doctor should also consider infection as a cause of elevated PSA -- a simple urine test....
Good news! In a few decades you won't have any test anxiety at all[img]...
I wouldn't presume to give medical advice but you should keep in mind that IF the cancer has spread outside the prostate then it must be treated with radiation. If this is the case then you need good...