Bill Positive

Hello All, I was a fairly heavy contributor here in late 2014 and early 2015. Had my radical prostatectomy mid January 2015. Wish I had thought to give Viagra 100 mg a try 6-12 months ago to deal...

Apologies to Aimzee for my poorly phrased response. I re-read what I wrote, something about my best friends are dogs (I'm a pro dog photographer), immediately after you had given me some friendly...

Hi Guys -- thanks for the great feedback on what is the significance of going from a PSA of <0.01 to <0.02 in a year. Tall Allen pointed out that a different PSA test kit could account for the...

Hi Pratoman -- First time I've gotten on HealingWell in many moons, saw your name, just want to say Hello! I know we each had our surgery about the same time -- early to mid-January 2015. Kind of...

Hi TurpT1a, -- Re: "progressing to Gleason 3+4 is not a reason to disqualify [from AS]" I should have been clearer. I'm not considering AS. I was enrolled in AS at Johns Hopkins for only a month or...

Hi Pratoman, Hi compilier -- Pratoman, thanks re "no reason Cialis shouldn't be covered after RALP like Reconstruction is mandatory after Mastectomy." Sadly -- although nothing surprises me any more...

Summer is here, and I'm not ready for it. But nice and windy this evening. No rain, just high winds in the treetops. Heavenly! Here's what's new. I've been mildly irritated it appears that neither...

Oftentimes it seems to me there's a really good thread about some topic of interest to all -- maybe diet or exercise or supplements, or to a lesser extent something like incontinence in general, or a...

Hi -- I've recently fallen off the "wagon" in terms of avoiding eating late at night, avoiding overeating anytime, being more conscious around food in general, avoiding a lot of dairy, avoiding a lot...

Hi John -- post op pathology report sounds good -- organ confined disease, I think you said negative margins, lymph nodes negative for cancer. Great choice to have it done at Johns Hopkins -- they...

-- "have they cultured your urine?" Hi Allen -- Thanks for asking the obvious question. Sometimes so easy to overlook. The answer to that -- do I have an untreated urinary tract infection? -- might...

Hi -- this makes no sense to me. One of the main symptoms pre-RRP surgery was the 3-5 years prior to surgery (mid-Jan 2015) I frequently had tremendous urgency to urinate, as if I would pee in my...

Talked to my Johns Hopkins surgeon who did the RRP in January about (a) when I should go for my next PSA test and he said September, I liked that. Also told him about (b) the rash on my penis I...

You read that right! Now that's a subject line I wouldn't have dreamed I'd ever type in any circumstance! Being a regular here certainly has broken down my inhibitions about discussing what in...

Hi Pratoman ! Don't be thinking about PSA scores! Just GO, GO to Alaska! I mean, didn't you just have the surgery in early January? You are still very fresh out of the hospital from the surgery for...

Andrew, Tom, Rick, Mike, Clocknut, Peter, Pratoman, BillyBob, and Others Unnamed but Present Too, I raise a toast to friendship, mutual support, the celebration of battles won this moment -- let the...

Hi All -- I know the common wisdom is a final post-op pathology report overrides the conclusions of a contradictory earlier MRI (Tesla 3). I had an MRI at Johns Hopkins in December '14. The...

Hi Ziggy, --- "It's very common those newly diagnosed develop an instant hunt and beliefs in miracle supplements." Hmmm. Well, I don't consider myself newly diagnosed since I was diagnosed with PC...

Hi -- Been 2 months since I posted on this thread. Just now I posted to another thread re the subject ... can the latest, newest, best MRI Tesla 3 (3T) machines accurately determine whether a man's...

Hi Allen -- re what PNI means, that's an important clarification I missed when PNI first came to my attention. As you say, "Perineural invasion does not mean that the cancer is not organ confined....

Hey there BillyBob -- Loved your very funny, serious too, post. Your description went a long way to de-mystify the hocus pocus I've felt around biofeedback ... the phrase sounds like it could...

Re: Exaggerating a pattern that needs changing, to see it more clearly. Hi Pratoman and "142 Forum Moderator" for the good advice, including the link to the article by Tower Urology at LA's...

Hi All, Funny how new developments on the health front have had the good benefit of distracting me from focusing pretty exclusively on incontinence/continence and on ED, those two notable side...

Hey Baldeagle, With uncharacteristic brevity, all I can say in response to your kind words, is Wow! Thank you, my friend. It's nice to be appreciated. And this has been a group effort. This is a...

Hi Bald Eagle -- Glad you are inspired by my successful surgery result. My task is to remain inspired myself! I'm finding the incontinence stuff heavy going this moment, but am gonna love my body...