Congrats Pratoman!...
If you take a look at my stats below, you can see that my PSA never left the 'normal' range. In fact, my PSA was actually the lowest recorded a few days prior to my surgery. My age didn't fit the...
I'm about 2.5 weeks post op (1/27/15), and have been on the daily Viagra regimen for almost a week. So farm nothing doing, but I haven't done much more than taking the pill at night. Am I supposed to...
Sorry to piggy-back, and I know this sounds stupid, but with surgery coming up in a couple of weeks, I was also wondering the same thing. My question - when you're swapping out pads (or more)...
FWIW, I agree w/Doug - the whole point of beating back cancer shouldn't be to turn you into a hermit. Obviously it's a delicate matter to break the news, and if you date enough different folks,...
Prato - hope you're at least feeling better after a longer sleep. No fever, right? Maybe you shifted around just a bit while sleeping an that caused some seepage of blood into the urine stream?...
Congrats - that is fantastic news!...
Pratoman, You'll be fine either way, I have faith. I always tell my guys that no matter how bad you think you've got it, there's always some poor guy out there who's got it worse. Take, for instance,...
Pratoman - I'm three weeks behind you on the surgery timeline. I've had many of the same questions that you've posted, so definitely appreciate the insights you've been able to get from the crowd....
I've been drinking a glass of juice each morning. A bit harsher (and sweeter) than cranberry juice, but similar taste. I've pretty much cut out soda from my diet, so I figure I'm still net ahead on...
42 when dx'd. Turned 43 a month later. Surgery scheduled in January....
Thanks everybody for the advice - definitely appreciate the differing perspectives... obviously, everybody's rigged slightly different, so this gives me something to chew on. Definitely not something...
Hello everybody, Long story short, I spent the last two months researching and talking to more doctors than I care to remember and decided on RP. Best choice for me given my set of circumstances and...
Bill, From my own experience - it seems that a lot of the imaging technologies are ok down to a specific size threshold (at which point they fail to detect lesions/tumors/whatever). In my case, I...
Best of luck. Active Duty USN here, probably getting treatment in January. Here's to hoping it pans out for us all......
Big Mac - are there no issues/complications with having an AUS installed PRIOR to SRT? Maybe a dumb question, didn't know if having extra gear down there would be problematic for radiation treatment....
I noticed that a lot of folks here have received treatment at an out-of-town facility. I am in a similar situation where I wasn't crazy about the local urologist to whom I was referred by my GP, and...
We have two small ones at home, and we haven't told them yet. To be honest, I'm not sure when that time will be. On our end, aside from researching treatment options and associated side effects,...
Hello again - as you all know, the potential for severity in treatment side effects weighs significantly in choosing a PCa treatment path. I was trying to get a better idea (from the survivor's...
+1, agree with what everybody's written and that the uro's information sheet definitely understates the volume of yuck. Had my biopsy 2+ weeks ago, tested the plumbing a couple of times and it is...
Several folks wrote back on my original post, thanks very much. Most everybody mentioned that I've got plenty of time to research, consult, decide on a treatment path and move forward. My question -...
Thanks everybody for the response and advice. Especially given that any treatment plan for the future is going to almost 100% rely on the biopsy pathology (since everything else besides the DRE and...
Tall Allen - thx. I guess the thing I found worrisome was that the mri didn't pickup anyone except for one tiny mass, yet so many cores came back positive. I was initially happy with the mri showing...
Sorry, I probably didn't explain the diagnosis path well (and I will eventually punch this all into my signature line): - baseline psa in 2011: 0.89 - July 2014: abnormal dre, single nodule felt on...
Since my initial positive dre back in July, I've been a lurker and now am unfortunately part of the club. Just got mri guided biopsy results: 6 of 12 cores positive (5 on the left, 1 on the right at...