Thank your congress critter for the current state of affairs in which pharmaceutical co's are granted monopolies for their respective products. Dont look for them or their FDA to act in your favor...
Read it, digested it and discarded it ....*burp*...
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Weight loss....
bbqdude, I had two PSA tests at Vanderbilt and both times was given a DRE first. When I questioned the administering physician assistant about it she acted like I was nuts. That along with a lack of...
Another six month check finds my PHI down slightly at 27.2 and DRE all good. In six months I will have my third biopsy....
Bbqdude sorry I just saw your question, doc was Joseph Smith. He never mentioned AS as a path for me, and I correctly ignored his advice, but If someone wanted to go the surgery route, he is one of...
I've recently started using CBD oil for anxiety and have found it most helpful....
Maybe a second opinion with a PHI rather than PSA test. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3943368/...
Too many put doctors on a pedestal and thus dont dare to question. I'm glad your husband escaped further injury at the hands of a "professional"...
Thanks ASAdvocate and same to you...
Update: six month exam at Northshore. They are now using PHI value instead of PSA. My PHI was 28.3 which my doc says is a great number for someone on AS....
"We're all gonna die!" That piece reads like it was written by a hysterical suburban soccer mom....
http://www.cbc.ca/doczone/features/psychopaths-top-10-and-bottom-10-professions Surgeons clock in at #5 of most likely. Nurses and doctors are listed in the top ten of the least likely....
They could follow with a surgery van and radiation van..oh and a ED van...
Not sure how common, but I experienced the same....
On 10/2/2017: Negative DRE, PSA 4.15 Continuing AS, no further tests for 6 months....
Timely thread. I was in Chicago visiting mom over the weekend and ate my fill of Portillo's hot dogs...guilt free!...
I followed a paleo diet prior to my dx and found it easy to stick with and I felt great. I was quite dismayed when I started research the diet/PC connection. I've since knocked off the eggs, bacon,...
Turmeric, Vit D, baby aspirin, broccoli, pomegranate, along with occasional fasting and fish 3 times weekly....
The saying, "genetics loads the gun and lifestyle pulls the trigger", sums it up for me....
Just checked my ears. Phew! One less thing to worry about...
Same way my father went out so I know its not pleasant to experience. Sorry for your loss....
Jack, yes. Had I chose to treat last year, my postings here would undoubtedly be about some side effect or another I'd likely be suffering from. Got the news yesterday via the North Shore portal, and...
Update, Confirmatory 12 core biopsy on 5/23/17 @ Glenbrook NorthShore Hospital, Glenview Il: No evidence of malignancy found on all twelve cores Two cores of adenomatous hyperplasia...
Jack -thank you Tall Allen- I do have issue with urgency and incomplete voiding and now have a prescription for Flowmax (which I have yet to fill). Tudpock - dunno about smart, but stubborn and...
Update: 3T MRI completed. No evidence of Prostate carcinoma. No lymphadenopathy, bone marrow normal. Prostate gland enlarged @41cc and mildly protruding into base of urinary bladder. Confirmatory...
Thank you everyone. I will update as needed and hopefully this thread will provide a small measure of helpful info for others....
Looks like I've found a program that will be a good fit. Some backround: I live in the Nashville Tn area and was diagnosed last year with three cores of low grade Prostate cancer (3+3) at Vanderbilt....
So vitaminE/selenium/vitaminC supplements and multi vitamins, bad or of no value? Also Avodart, Finastride etc. do nothing to prevent or slow progression, and in fact lead to more aggresive cancer?...
Would be nice to have another tool in the box to help make a treatment decision....
Reassessing diet has been one of the most vexing outcomes of my DX. About two years ago, and after eating mcdonalds twice a day and drinking gallons of diet soda I bottomed out and switched to a low...
Dr. Joseph Smith at Vanderbilt has thousands of RP procedures to his credit....
Old days: Father DX in 1992 with distant mets, died 1994....
Started reading it over the weekend...
Hey Robert, if you don't mind me asking, did we talk on the phone some months back? I see you were scheduled to have an RP with Dr. Smith at Vandy back in 11/16, but you cancelled. I also was...
Just ordered it off amazon. Looks like an interesting read....
After my DX I kicked a severe diet soda addiction in part by switching over to green tea. I still get enough of a caffeine buzz and figure I have to be better off for it....
Thanks all for the input, I'm trying to gather info,and considering options. I live in the Nashville Tn area, but am from Chicago. My experiences here in tn have not been positive so that's why I'm...
Just recieved an information packet and application form for North Shore University's (Chicago) AS program and wondering if anyone here has had any experience with them?...
Thank you island time, I'll look into Dr. Busch. Is there a back story on why Vanderbilt is a no go for AS?...
JackH, Dr.Smith didn't recommend anything but surgery for me during my consult. I guess you don't get the experience of thousands of RP surgeries by dissuading people from them, although admittedly...
I suppose it would help if I gave my location; I'm in the Nashville area and travel back to Chicago frequently. Seems like many programs only accept those with fewer than three cores and confined to...
Can anyone recommend an AS program that will accept someone with three cores 3+3 and in both lobes?...
No thanks big govt. I'll take my chances on the mean streets of the Internet before relying on the creeps, crooks and quacks at the FDA to tell me what's a legit website. I think it's best to view...
Too bad urologists haven't caught on to the fact that there is more than one reason for an elevated PSA (at least the ones I have encountered). Read, ask, research and don't trust....
It's harder to find a vein for a blood draw if you're dehydrated, but beyond that I don't know if there is another reason....
My father passed from prostate cancer. At the end when we brought him home from the hospital to die, his hostice caregiver gave us sheet that outlined the stages of death and darned if it wasn't spot...
JackH thank you for the link to that article. I've not had surgery...yet....
Thank you to all whom replied. I'm looking back on this whole process and trying to determine what's in my best interest (which seems in conflict with the professionals I've encountered) I have a...