Thanks. Great poem. Happy memories can hurt like hell....
Sorry about your diagnosis. All the great advice has been given all I will say in response to your concern above becoming weak or frail. Obviously you will if you go for surgery and the guys on here...
Well Pratoman and others you were right. No incentive or pointin doing anything at this stage. Could my 0.04 reading be a mistake? "Not likely but possible" Could it be stable psa from benign tissue...
Great, thanks GoBucks...
An important point. To mislead was not my intension....
Your doing great Depov. I'm reminded of my own recovery. I was inclined to push on and break records. Try and remember you've be punctured in the stomach six times and an organ has been pulled out....
Just seen your post Pratoman Thank you AGAIN. I will try my best not to crack up....
So you don't think my month long discomfort in my testicle and lower abdomen is linked either InTheShop? Its encouraging to hear these opinions I must say. I have read that Epididymitis is a fairly...
Is there another way to get that blog GoBucks? Its saying that the page doesn't exist. I also found this study very helpful and it seems to relate to your path Island Time....
Thanks again Island Time. I'm taking notes....
I like your thinking Gary. If my urologist is of the same opinion on Wednesday I believe I will be able to get back to normality in the brain department....
Thanks GoBucks. The thing is I'm reading in certain studies that because of ultra sensitive psa now that many urologists are looking at a rises above 0.03 as recurrence and there's a website...
Its a very personal decision and the big problem is that there ARE pros and cons whatever decision he makes. I do know that the outcomes as far as the PCa is concerned are very similar. It depends on...
Congrats and well done. Your on the other side indeed. Wish I had known about the bucket. I used a hanger....
Island Time. Im also being educated by your psa stats after surgery!!! I notice they have went up past my latest reading and back down again. Did you have any other treatments? In any case its...
Thanks Island Time. Its great advice and I do intend to lock myself in his office until I get satisfaction on both counts. I want a scan and as to the rise in psa I've read that recent studies...
OK lads I need some advice before I go for my scheduled urology appointment on Wednesday. So I got my psa test back and its 0.04. My previous 3 tests have been <0.03 undetectable. Im now very worried...
Ha yea I know. Dont do that. My psa should be text to me today or tomorrow. Im off to yoga with a bunch of women and a slightly sore nut....
Thanks Pilate. My Lymph nodes were not removed (as far as Im aware ha!) as I had negative margins but I get what your saying. It could be any number of things. I have noticed that the tubes from my...
OK lads, I found this and now I'm worried again........
Everything is symptomatic of cancer if google be the oracle...
The last two posts are very informative and seem to ring true now that I have some clarity after sharing with you guys. So yes the ache is not by the navel and does feel exactly like a tugging...
I admire you cashless for taking control in your own way. I could not be as rigorous as you because that would involve too much effort and, for me, would keep the thought of cancer forever in my...
Anyway..... I was thinking about this again today in the car. I get that cancer speeds up deaths approach. So do many things. A bullet to the head is way faster or a car over a ledge or a snake bite....
I want to thank you guys for the quick response given the different time zones. Im very grateful as always. Im hoping its not the hernia but hell I'll take that any day over the alternative and you...
Ha! I missed you Logoslidat and I agree. We are all afraid of deterioration. Its how we manage it. I just did a post on a 'dull ache' that has returned which I describe as provoking a quite panic...
LATEST POST AT THE END OF THREAD. Hello again everyone. I have returned in a quite panic. So its almost 10 months since my surgery and my recovery has been extremely successful. Im due another PSA...
ha. Down to the boxers...
Thanks Gentlemen. Cyclone, You've been through a lot. Understatement of century. Very best wishes to you from the hills of Connemara....
Smithwicks Halbert. The best. Thanks Gentlemen....
Thanks lads! Enjoying a heatwave here in Ireland. 31 degrees C (88F). Very rare lol....
Its been over a month since I've been on the forum lads. The surgery went well and I wanted to return to normality for a while and take a break from my dragon. The last few days waiting for my first...
lol that "in your face hooligan tack".... we get that from our mothers ... who did not get it from John Paul....
Very happy for you Tatt. Love to hear good news....
Logoslidat whatever wavelength you are on my dial does indeed go that far. You strike me as a man with a few interesting stories. You and me would get on like a house on fire. That's a good thing...
lol..... I was replacing the dressings regularly NKinney. They're off. Huzzar!...
Thanks guys. I never had any steri strips at any stage. Just dissolvable stitches under the band aids....
I want to point out too that although we took different approaches and are at different stages of our journeys Tall Allen has been very kind to me and given me very valuble advice along with many...
Mikey, my stats are similar to yours. If your decision is a panic decision with little research STOP and do all the reading you can first. If , like me, your decision is not panic then I wont try to...
Jmurph your stats and mine are almost identical. If you read my previous posts you will see my descision making process. Im only a few months ahead of you on the journey. I AM NOT SAYING TO DO WHAT I...
Thanks again guys. No stitches to be removed. Dissolvable so just come away by themselves. They may well have given me directions on when to remove. Id say from the wounds I could have got rid of the...
So to many this will seem like a silly question but Im still walking around with by dressings 6 weeks post robotic surgery. Overkill? I cant get a straight answer online and I dont want to annoy my...
Point well made Oldbeek. I did say I went into the surgery accepting that I may be impotent and that its important to be prepared for this. I also said that because I was G6 they went for nerve...
Dont fall into the trap of drinking less so you dont leak. You'll just be dehydrated and feel worse. Drinking more may see your situation get worse before it gets better but try and put up with it...
Kegels everytime it pops into your head. You'll know your muscles are getting stronger if you can do it while walking with little effort. Walk walk walk. Drink MORE water. Are you drinking less in...
I'll agree again with those above. I had sex 2 weeks after my surgery. I cried like a girl. Thankfully job done at that stage. My advice. Stay on your back and let your partner do the driving in the...
Sorry to hear about your dads situation. My wifes mother is also 79 with breast cancer and dementia and she has gone through the mill deciding what the best treatment options are for her and for me....
Oldbeek, I enjoy sex. Still enjoying it from 2 weeks after my surgery. I say that to give a balanced view on surgery outcomes. I went for surgery resigning myself to the possibility that I might be...
Its great that you have made return visits tennisplayer. Yes we've a few things to iron out just yet but we're getting there. I'm on the green side of the fence but I'm also in the business of...
If I was 67 with your stats its highly likely I would not have chosen surgery and made the same choice as you. Good luck on your journey....