Thank you Dude A.! I’m not on any calcium supplements but not on any other supplemental vitamins or the like either. Thanks sp much for your post and the very handy links, I will research. A little...
Wow that's an old auto signature from when I first joined, will have to update. Have prostate cancer and have just watched it closely for 6 years without panicking, but Covid concerns and sick...
Thank you for the strength HT. You are an important presence around here. I will get started with some magnesium - they were recommended to me by a nutritionist not to long ago. Musculoskeletal pain...
Thank you Susie, I really appreciate your reply and sense of the matter. I have a treadmill echo stress scheduled for next week, will keep the thread updated. I have a BMI of 25 and have always been...
I am 59, not symptomatic in any noticeable way but heart disease/ha's in all my paternal family without exception experiencing ha's around 50 yrs old. Been seeing cardiologist for 15 years. Score was...
Hopefully this article is more positive confirmation of surveillance options for men with low grade and/or low volume biopsy results. I hope I am not duplicating an earlier posting, but this is from...
I have never heard of mpMRI-guided biopsy - is it likely my uro is not up to speed? my basic dx plan is PSA twice a year, biopsy every 18-24 mos....
The statements are usually abstracted from literature in the field as indexed by NIH PubMED-so I think that part is reliable....
I just got results back from a commercial DNA sequencing company to see if I can improve the "educated" part of the educated guess that AS is for me. I am in my second year of AS and happy with that...
Dear Geetar - I have a very similar profile & starting point as you and have been on AS for 2 years now. Got my Dx the very next day after the big public health committee recommendation to radically...
PS - came across this useful link today regarding radical prostatectomy and QOL r/t incontinence:...
I have PCa and BPH but am not going to actively treat the cancer, so I will be having the same procedure as jay. jay - my limitted/amateur reading to date is that your experience is on the edge but...
Hmmmm...when I was in college and stressed out, a school psych counselor told me as long as i thought I was going crazy, I wasn't crazy!! So you still have the capacity to worry, and likely too much,...
Thanks all - looks like my uro is going to use a "plasma" button vaporizer with the focus being a benign (assumed) growth in the median lobe which has become a ball-valve blocking the bladder...
After about three months research & thought, I decided on an expectant management/watchful waiting approach to my low risk PCa, so my Uro recommended a cystoscopy to evaluate my pretty dreadful BPH...
Thanks everyone - you guys are great. I am pretty sanguine about my situation - yeah, from what I know so far the outlook is good. But I definitely felt I crossed over into a new phase of living in...
Thank you Sonny. I am one of those very newly diagnosed and really experiencing some joy in finding this forum. I made my first post in one of the threads for this debate, really interested b/c I got...
Well...I'm about as good a test case of this news story as any. I am 50 yrs. and I had my first biopsy a week ago, and while waiting and wondering, saw the news Monday evening. Tuesday evening I got...