Hey Bill, seems like there's not much action here! I was originally in the Prostate Cancer forum, but here I am now... I also first felt angina while walking uphill. My routine was to go on 1+ mile...
Thanks for the post. Very interesting. My own take as an amateur: There are some life events that make oneself especially vulnerable to charlatans. This has been well known for decades and probably...
Good going! Keep it up!...
"Younger than springtime are you..."[/quote] You have to be quite "young" to know that song! A little later--"they try to tell us, you're too young..."...
When I was diagnosed over 10 years ago, there was less info online, so I relied to books and doctors. None of the books I read or doctors I talked to reported that surgery would result in a shorter...
Money, same here. I'd never been to an NBA or NFL game, but now I've been to several. Hadn't seen my college team play since I was in college, but I went to see them too....
I agree that work is less important. But I still do enjoy my work. Miss my wife a lot, having lost her to cancer, but I'm lucky to have great kids and a wonderful girlfriend....
Later the same weekend, I had more blood again. Hemorrhoids? I don't know. Bright red blood, not sure if there were any clots. If it happens again, I might ask for a colonoscopy. Never thought I'd...
Thanks for the advice!...
I've been worrying a bit more about nothing being found. InTheShop (Andy?), you said that the sigmoidoscopy led to a colonscopy. Does that mean the colonoscopy found things that the sigmoidoscopy did...
Thanks guys! Still doing OK today. I hope it was just regular hemorrhoids. (that is such a hard word to spell!)...
The other side of the coin is that when I was in my 20s or early 30s, I knew plenty of older guys who thought that all us youngsters were a bunch of dumb weaklings....
Sigmoidoscopy was today. I was awake for the whole thing. They were ready to sedate and cauterize if necessary, but it wasn't needed. There was a slightly irritated area that he said wasn't worth...
For a group like this one, I like to change the phrase to a rallying cry, OK Fellow Boomers!...
This reminds me of what I've seen at the 90th birthday party of some relatives.You get to see a lot of people who don't visit very often, and you get a chance to talk about things in an enjoyable...
JR, sorry to hear you're having so many problems but thanks for sharing your experience. From what I read, a sigmoidoscopy is somewhat safer than a colonscopy. So there's that tradeoff. I wouldn't...
The GF found this interesting article:...
Had no blood in the stool for 3 days, and got my hopes up. But pooped out what looks like a bloody clot today. Darn. At least my blood work is still looking normal, so the bleeding it not too large....
Thanks for the additional info. Just before starting radiation, I did get a colonoscopy, and supposedly that is why they think a sigmoidoscopy is sufficient this time....
So I'm talking to the non-sedation place, and they say "oh wait, it says 'sedation'". A lot of back and forth could have been avoided. Oh well....
I've been talking to two facilities, and one says that you don't need sedation for the sigmoidoscopy and you and drive yourself, but the other says you should be sedated for the sigmoidoscopy in case...
Hi Golden, My health coverage only does the less sensitive test. But after salvage radiation, I did go down to 0.2, then up to 0.3, than back down to <0.1, where it is now. When I first posted about...
17 months after ending salvage radiation, I've been having on and off rectal bleeding. Usually just a tiny amount, but one morning this week it was quite noticeable. Radiation doc said he'd refer me...
Thank you SP and Prato!...
Paxton, that's interesting. I had a colonoscopy shortly before RT. But although my bowels have been uncomfortable, there's been hardly any bleeding. None at all in the past couple months. Just...
Thank you!...
I had doubts at some points. But today's result is finally <0.1! Which is as good as it gets at Kaiser, since they don't do the more sensitive test. It's been over a year. Still having digestive...
Dave, So sorry to hear about your challenges. Still, it's good to hear from you, old chum. DJ...
Hope I wind up doing as good as you!...
Just to be clear, I wound up not doing the ADT. I was leaning against it, since it wasn't clear that it would be helpful, none of my doctors was pushing for it, only offering it, and I was worried...
Thank you all for your kind thoughts! Jay, I actually decided to go forward with treatment when I hit 0.4. That's another story that is on the board here somewhere. Briefly, I got second and third...
Thanks Andrew!...
Couldn't find my old thread, but basically I had surgery 10 years ago, radiation last summer, and then my PSA went down from 0.5 to 0.2, but then back up to 0.3. That was in Feb 2019. I feared the...
I have a related situation. My cousin's husband, who is about 60, has a PSA of 9. This seems quite high to me. But he has already had two biopsies in the past few years, and both were negative. So...
pasayten, Thanks for posting, that is very interesting. Kaiser only covers the less sensitive test, so I wonder if it has a similar standard deviation, or more? So maybe when I went from 0.2 to 0.3,...
Hi JPT et al, I lost about 1.5 inches myself. And erections were very painful for years. Never had the nerve to try a vacuum pump as I thought it would be painful. But, I'm now at the point where I...
Thanks guys!...
Hi Guys, Past couple of readings have been back down to 0.2. Wish it were lower, but at least it didn't go up. I'm wondering if I'd get any more insight by getting the more precise test. But I'd have...
I chose surgery over 10 years ago. Partly because I feared radiation more than surgery. Not rational, but who is completely rational? Also, at the time, my nearby radiation options were not what they...
Howard, I just posted in my own similar topic which you had written in also. My latest PSA dropped back down from 0.3 to 0.2. In my case, since Kaiser doesn't do the more precise test, it could be...
Got another test yesterday, and it was back down to 0.2. So maybe a roundoff error? I'm still worried, but slightly less. Howard3569, thanks for the news. Hope you're doing OK....
My girlfriend says it's well known that young men want a sexpot; old men want a nurse. Been wearing spectacles nearly all my life......
Purg, thank you for the kinds words. It's great to hear from you!...
Thanks for the replies. I guess all I can do now is keep saying...darn....
Finished 39 salvage radiation treatments in August. November PSA was 0.2. Today, February, it's 0.3. Darn....
Andrew, when you put it that way, that sounds like good advice....
Congratulations Andrew! After all these years, are you still in the shop?...
Almost exactly 4 months since I finished SRT in August. Feeling much better, more energetic and alert. But I still can't eat like I used to. I used to be able to get a lunch from the salad bar, but...
Busted1, I guess that means that you take tablets other than the weird oval shape that is Cialis? I've used a compounding pharmacy before, when I lived in a different city. I don't know why it would...
Carey and fiddle, GoodRx was the first place I looked, and as you found, wasn't that great a deal. However, it might be the best domestic deal I can find. Even their prices can only be had by...