Congratulations!! Thanks for sharing your story, it gives hope to everyone here....
Well done Clocknut!! Paul and you did the surgeries on the same month. It has been 12 years. Paul’s result has come back at 0.02 this august after a series of 0.01s. We will do another reading at six...
Welcome to the forum 116! Good pickup Chad. Very thorough path report! And great research Djin. When choosing treatment this would be a reason to consider alternatives to surgery. Watchful Waiting is...
Great to see your post David! Sorry to hear about your Parkinson’s. So good to have an update. Paul is doing well, PSA still <0.1. Post here much less than I used to but still check in to read once a...
Fairwind, you have always been such an important part of this site for me. I remember back in 2010 you had your surgery around the time my husband had his in August. I recall that your post op PSAs...
Thanks Bill, so kind of you. And hello!...
Thanks guys for the wise words. And for the care in responding so beautifully. I think a couple of consultations and a second opinion would be wise. And plenty of treatment options too to weigh off....
Wonderful news! Congratulations....
Hi Robert, Thank you so very much for your considered response. I agree, the surgery is serious too and comes with it’s own side effects. It’s a lot to balance. I imagine though that it’s a lot...
Hi guys, I have been on this site since 2010 with my husbands PCa being the reason that I originally joined up. Lots of changes to how we treat prostate cancer over that time. Now I have my own...
It’s great the Russian vaccine has promise but I would like it to go through the large scale trials to prove its effectiveness at scale. There are enough vaccine haters out there, if this vaccine had...
Thanks for the update Mel. Good to hear from you. It absolutely does not sound like one big whine. An...
What strikes me about the epidemic is how people find it so hard to internalise how something happening so far away could also happen to them. Maybe the distancing effect of listening to the news and...
Bill, Aimzee, So great to hear from you guys!! That mammoth “August surgeries” thread back in 2010 broke all records but was so very helpful. Yes, we are doing well, thought about you all when Paul...
I joined the forum nearly 10 years ago. 142 has been such a steadying presence on this site. I am so so sorry to hear of his current situation. He needs to know that the work he has done here has...
There are so many ways of looking at this. If someone had to choose between no cancer, an “average” case of prostate cancer, an “average“. case of pancreatic cancer, the answer I think would be...
Harry, So sorry to hear that your psa is on the way up. Please keep us posted on next steps, radiation would seem to be the answer but it would be interesting to know whether the radiologist tried to...
So nice to hear from you Lana! About 5 years ago I was fretting when my husbands PSA went up from 0.01 to 0.02. You explained CJ’s situation and it gave me comfort. Paul is still at 0.02 when we...
Hi Mel, So glad you have given us an update. I often thought about your spinal injury and it’s good to know you have made progress from those awful initial days when you were having trouble typing....
TA, Really impressed with your knowledge and contributions to Healing Well. However this post is super disappointing. It is ungracious, unkind, self important. In short it is not like the even...
Paul’s results came back, 0.01. It’s been 8 years since the op. Really pleased with the result. The surgeon did very well with the continence, not a drop leaked since surgery. The third part of the...
Wow, so happy for you guys. What a great outcome!!!!...
My husband had his primary tumour in the anterior zone with possible involvement of the fibromuscular tissue as well. He chose robotic RP and his last psa last August was 0.02. Regards, An...
Hi David, Thanks for the update, sorry to hear about the Parkinson’s. The PSA is very good though, one of your medications has stopped it dead in it’s tracks and even reversed it as the number you...
In my experience doctors do ask their overweight and sedentary patients to eat better and exercise more. The benefits to losing excess weight and to getting off the couch are clear and scientific and...
So sorry to hear of your most recent troubles David. Only positive thing was that the MOHS surgery was for a Basel cell carcinoma not a squamous cell or even worse a melonoma. A friend of mine had a...
Found an article today in the Washington Post talking about the awful H3N2 virus dominating this year....
All I can say from the Southern Hemisphere that this years flu season in the Norther Hemisphere promises to be a bad one judging from what happened here in Australia. It has been the worst flu season...
David, So sorry to hear of the recent setbacks and all that you have been through. As always, wish you the best. An...
SP, this is great news. I thought like Gemlin, that your PSA should have already been undetectable at week 6 based on halving times but I am so glad that I was wrong. Enjoy your news, it’s a good...
I am so so sorry to jear this. Prostate cancer can be so cruel. Chris was way too young. Chris had you to stand by him right till the end, your hear is broken but Chris must be at peace. An...
Richard, This is one of the most thought provoking articles I have read on cancer in recent years. I found it so interesting that I read the entire article aloud to my husband who was captivated by...
Clocknut, My husband and you had the op on exactly the same day and with your golf stories you could have a doppelgänger at the other end of the world, in spirit at least... ...So happy to hear that...
In Australia we used to be able to buy codeine/paracetamol for pain over the counter. I remember using this occasionally to treat acute pain but the government has now put restrictions on its...
Biopsies are not that great at sampling some parts of the prostate, sometimes it's the location of the tumour that causes these surprises. It is very very common for people to go from 3+3 on Bx to...
Goodbye Tommy, I think you have landed on the right conclusion, this place is not for you (and is possibly not for others as well), you see problems where most of us see a very good and supportive...
I am not hearing many complaints here tommyc, I see a lot of people who acknowledge that this site is not perfect but does the job for them very well and are grateful that it exists. This site does...
I remember what it was like 7 years ago when my husband was diagnosed and I will be forever grateful to this forum. It was scary and new, I was 38 years old with a husband just diagnosed with cancer....
People come here for different reasons. Some for comfort, some for information, some to vent, some for a mixture. My view is that we need to be adult enough to realise that people posting cannot read...
So glad you are back Mel...! You have been through so much recently and it must be upsetting that you have had to do the surgery that erased some of he gains. You have a great chance for the best...
Good to see you back Bronson. Hope the consult goes well. Sorry to see the numbers go back up but they may be testing error. Fingers crossed....
So sorry Beth. I am so glad that Gary had some moments this week when he was fully back with you and your family. Rest in peace Gary....
This is such great news! Please continue to keep us posted. It can't get much better than undetectable but now we just want it to stay there....
Hi Mary, I am so sorry for your loss. It is so great though that Dan could spend six weeks doing the things he loved and travelling with the people he loved. And playing golf at the same time. I am...
Snowcake, I know how hard you tried and yearned for this not to happen. There may be times when you think things would have been different if only.... but I think it's important you don't think that...
I've done IVF and am pretty sure that hcg was what I injected into my tummy everyday. Not very enjoyable at all.......
I don't think I could pretend to understand or interpret scans. But scans usually come with a report and I definitely read that and try to understand it and note any areas that I don't understand....
Up4thefight, If it makes any difference, my husband's tumour was mostly in the fibromuscular tissue, definitely the 3+4 component was. We have always been concerned that this odd location for the...
I always open them and look at the report. I figure that we have paid for the reports and it's our bodies. Given the our past history with busy doctors not reading results throughly (my husband's...
My husband was continent from the time that the catheter was taken out. He drinks 1-2 coffees a day and has a beer or two a day. Although he did not have any urinary issues presurgery, he found it...