Just throwing my hat into the ring I've spent $20,000 each of the last two years on medical care. I earn $28,000 per year. I spent all of my savings rather than look for help. With savings gone I was...
Hi all, Just wanted to say hi, I haven't stopped in for a long time. I had gotten pretty down about how tough some people have it and I was doing great. Lost health insurance in March, I was two...
Wow, I feel 100% better today. Going into work at lunch. Tony, you hit on a lot of what I have fought with since starting hormone therapy in early October. I am slower and fuzzier thinking. I build...
Thank you Peter, It helps a lot to hear it from someone else who's been there. Definitely like the flu, guess it's a good excuse for chicken noodle soup and crackers :)...
Hi everybody, I've absent for awhile not much to say really. I was on Lupron for a while, forget how long. I had constant headaches so we decided to switch to Degarelix Acetate 80 MG Solr. My first...
Bobby Mac and Tall Allen, You guy's are way over my head but your conversation is awesome. Thank you. Some of it is actually sinking into my sometimes slow brain. I see my MO in about 4 weeks, I may...
Hey MTM, Welcome to the family, sorry you have to be here. You'll discover there are a lot of really smart, helpful people here. (not me, I just ask a million questions :)) I don't know if this helps...
Hi Psych, I'm confused which sadly, is really often. Why are you adding Casadex at this point? I was told it is added when Lupron is no longer working by itself, PSA down from 47 to 1 in 3 months...
Hi ITS First of all I am sorry about your long list of options, glad it got real short for you. Funny how when we are buying a new car we want all the options, but when we see the doctor we don't...
I want to say thank you to every one who has replied, I am hearing what I need to hear, and learning to hear what I may not want to hear. I am amazed at everyones knowledge of options. In the end all...
I just wanted to say congrats to you IT. Reading through all the replies reinforces my belief that we are all surrounded by people on this forum that really do care. Through humor or philosophical...
Hi Bobby Mac, Thanks for answering. My medical oncologist referred me to my radiation oncologist so I could have another view on this. After meeting with RO we discussed most aggressive approach to...
Hey, Took a few weeks off from reading any posts, stuff on my mind and all. If you have read any of my earlier posts I have been stressed over incontinence. Happy to say I am down to 1 pad a day....
Good morning Manfred, Yes, I have an mechanical aortic heart valve. Put in 2005....
Hi Manfred, Thanks for replying, I got a hunch I have been forgetting a dose now and then. Back to daily/weekly pill box. Just hope I can remember to fill it. My target is 3.0, I have bounced from...
Just wondering if anybody else taking warfarin has had problems with their INR times fluctuating after starting hormone therapy? (For me it's 90 day Lupron ) I have suddenly started having problems...
Hi H & P Surgery was on July 11th. Since posting question I have gone back to 8 hour days x 5 days. 6 pullups work days and only 4 Saturday and Sunday. Big difference between week days and weekend...
Thanks Andrew and alephnull I think you both answered my question well. I was actually hoping that there was a connection, thus giving me one more reason to tell my employer that I just can't do it...
Good morning everybody, Has anybody else noticed a connection between excessive work hours, 13 to 17 hour shifts with 1 at 24. Or for that matter just tired or worn out. Leakage has gone from 5 or 6...
I found coffee to be a nightmare for me. I would double my leakage for the rest of the day. Gave up coffee :( helped me a lot. I also got great advice from the group to drink MORE water not less....
Hi ya all, I did some digging online, found a paper from Stanford Medicine. In a nut shell both intraductal carcinoma and ductal carcinoma equally suck. I will attempt to add graph here.(fail) Also,...
How I got where..... Regular doc is Dr. Deonne Brown Benedict Private practice (Charis Family Clinic) Washington state ANRP of the year a couple of years ago, I was having huge problem urinateing....
Hi Tall one, I am seeing a Dr. Andrew Hsieh. I made this appointment a few days before joining the club. I actually had it set up for after my three month follow up with Dr. Porter UW called me and...
Thank you for the responses, I tend to agree with all of you. My plan is to go in with written questions and I think the key as already stated, they are professionals and I need to act like one, even...
I love this one, I have been saying it so often my coworkers think I've lost my mind, then again, it does also describe my boss....
I am thinking that at my appointment on Tuesday with Specialist at UW Medicine I may want to move my chair in front of door so he can't leave until I get all my answers! Anybody else try it?...
Great question 81, I have changed in a way my counselor has been trying to get me to for two years. I have always been too worried about what other people in my life think, always choosing what's...
Hi Tall One I am seeing Dr. Andrew Hsieh at UW Medicine on Tuesday this week, appointment was setup prior to getting on forum. Reading his bio he may be a good option. I guess part of my task will...
Hey Dr. Who Thanks for input, seems odd that the doctors and their cohorts like to use different words and different arrangements of same words for maybe or maybe not the same thing. I am seeing a...
Hi Brian, I also had Dr. Porter do my RP. It was on July 11th this year. He did a great job, happy to have lucked out getting him. Pretty cool that even at G9 your cancer did not spread. Anyways...
Hi Tall Allen, I am looking at my biopsy report and pathology report. The biopsy uses the term "cannot exclude focal intraductal carcinoma 3 times. It uses "Gleason's score 4+5=9 with focal ductal...
New to this, forums, cancer and freaking incontinence at work! My question though is how many of you had a 2.0 PSA before Biopsy gave you the good news? Why did you get checked? For me 7 months of...