Well I just "celebrated" my 2 year anniversary of CyberKnife completion. PSA back down to 1.3 from 11.1. Down to only one bathroom call in the middle of the night. But one thing that hasn't improved...
Good Idea. My uro seemed to lose interest after I declined his "surgery treatment" last year....
I tapered off of FloMax last October, six months after conclusion of CK. A few weeks ago my urine stream started constricting. I have a 6 month PSA checkup next week, 4/29, but contacted my uro and...
Checked with his asst and was told I am getting the single focus lense and will still need glasses for my 20/40 astigmatism. I was never asked if I wanted the out of pocket procedures that would help...
Thanks DT. It is nice to know the IFIS is only a 2% occurrence. I have not been asked about near, distance, mono, etc. lenses. The doc says I have a astigmatism, and the surgeries will still leave me...
Well I started Flomax at the startup of my 5 sessions of CyberKnife in April, and now 7 months later I have cataract surgery scheduled for the 24th. Researching online I see where I will be at risk...
Sorry to hear about these bad SE's from RT. I am assuming this RT is not SBRT? My 5 CyberKnife treatments ended about 10 days ago and my main SE, besides minor nausea, was just discomfort similar to...
Just 4 days removed from my last CyberKnife treatment and had talked before treatment began with my RO about maybe taking small nightly doses of Sildenafil Citrate. I meet with him again next week,...
alephnull, My mother-in-law, born 1922, probably was in high school with your father-in-law in Pratt around 1938. Her family moved in 1937 from Leoti, located out in the far Western plains of Kansas,...
Interesting. My father in-law, born 1918, was the Pratt Postmaster for a while....
alephnull, Are you near, or have ever heard of Pratt or Lyons Kansas? Wife from Pratt, Mother from Lyons. Wife's home place on a yellow brick road, with giant cottonwoods....
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/million-muslims-are-held-detention-camps-china-now-portrays-humane-n922041...
Those Sinophobes on PBS just reported the Chinese have maybe under reported deaths by 25,000....
Russia is much safer. Are you a "Russia-phobe"?...
Exactly. If Dr Fauci was in China with that behavior standing behind Xi, he would have been "disappeared"....
Sinophobia? LOL. Maybe my distrust has more to do with doubting an authoritative communist regime, reguardless of race. China is a country, not a race Do you believe there are no cases in North...
Is China telling us what is really happening there? They have major outbreaks and have had to start re-closing movie theaters. 40k deaths are what some Western "experts" think has occurred there....
Does anyone really believe we actually have more covid-19 deaths than China?...
CDC is now saying if you have a mask, or can make one, it would benefit yourself and others to wear it. I wonder how WHO can say masks don't protect non-medical persons, but are essential for medical...
Surgical masks can/might be "strengthened" by saturating with salt water. First keep adding salt to a very hot bowl of water, and keep adding, and stirring, until salt doesn't dissolve and starts...
I was given the 4KScore test last Dec by my Uro. I just got a EOB from Medicare saying they don't cover that and the cost is $760. If my Uro didn't inform me in writing about the non-coverage they...
I did mega dosing of Vit C last week to see how much my body used before sending me running to toilet. Started at 15g/day with no side effects. The 2nd day went to 25gm and in the evening started...
It was reported that Rogers died from bladder cancer. Does anyone know if he had been treated for prostate cancer in the past?...
Maybe the richest citizens, or employees of large companies can take "a three month "siesta" without falling apart", but some of my family members, who own small businesses, will go bankrupt. And a...
I heard this morning, NPR questioning Sen Schumer about the risk-reward post I got "questioned" on. It went something like this: NPR: Sen Schumer, When does the downside and damage of this social and...
a death is a death. If we shut down our country during the 2017-18 flu season it could have saved up to 80,000 lives maybe. Are those souls worthless in your mind? Cigs are a lifestyle choice....
Well I know that covid19 is not the seasonal flu, but a death is a death. What should we say to the families of the 80,000 who died of flu in the 2017-18 season, as to why we didn't shut things down...
I can understanding some "shut down" to get better info and flatten the curve. But once the curve looks to have peaked we need to open our economy back up and accept some old and weak might die, like...
I know. Just thinking about shuttering most small and medium businesses for maybe 6 months, a year, or more, is "wow". My post was to consider the "risk-reward" of all our activities. Consider this:...
Sorry This "shutdown" of the US economy is insanity. If it goes beyond 15 days, I can't imagine the suffering of the working folks, in the prime of their lives, just to protect those health...
I just canceled my 8 hour round trip to Atlanta for my younger brother's funeral service. If he "notices", I am sure he will understand....
My point was, there have been severe cases, and even death, of protected health care workers treating covid-19 cases. I don't recall, ever, a healthy health care worker dying from treating the...
Anyone have statistics that would compare covid19 to seasonal flu, by how many healthy medical care workers, wearing masks or other protective gear, have become critically ill, or died, after being...
I guess I didn't make it clear about my treatment path if MRI comes back "clean". If so, my RO recommends SBRT only. And of course I will go forward with the treatment he recommends....
My treatment plan hasn't been decided yet. Need a pelvic MRI to determine if I need HT. Does anyone know if ADT, etc. lower one's immune system? Just another reason I want to try mono-therapy,...
Everyone just mentions length. But I have read many women say girth is more important to female sensations. Does the implant just extend, leaving one with a very skinny "johnson"?...
Were you "put out", or just numbed?...
I just returned from the Duke Multidisciplinary Clinic, and the RO at Duke recommended it, especially with the higher radiation therapies like CyberKnife. If it prevents just 1 in 10 from proctitis,...
He said if next week's MRI comes back "boring", he would agree with just 5 bouts of CyberKnife every other day, and nothing else. Also recommended the SpaceOAR my RO wants, but had to disclose he,...
7 hours round trip from my home. As far as I could tell, I was the only patient at the "clinic". 2 hours from check-in to check-out, broken down like this. 1.5 hours- Check-in, vitals taken, asked...
PCRI Director Dr. Mark Scholz video on SpaceOAR starts at 00:06:20 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaKVRPrsDFo...
I search for SpaceOAR, sort by date, and the thread at the top of my sorted list is from 07-19-2019....
I don't know. That is why I'm worried. I will meet with my RO after my mpMRI, and if it shows some iffy lymphs, the CyberKnife and SpaceOAR procedure will be a mute point. I will then be looking at...
I wish, but RO team doesn't place the SpaceOAR. It is my Uro I am worried about....
Maybe I am not finding the decent search function on this board, but the last discussion, when searching, that I see on SpaceOAR was from 7-2019, and I know I have seen more recent discussion, but I...
The WHO believes what China is telling them. They lose me right there....
Do they use the 1st treatment "puncture wounds", or do they implant in different areas. 20-30 catheter "wounds" seems like a lot of trauma to the perineum over a 2 week period....
So are you implying that it the "internet cures/preventions" that are fake news, or that the dangerous threat of a global pandemic is fake news? And that we should trust and believe the Chinese...
Do they leave the catheters in-bedded, or are new catheters put in place the 2nd time?...
I take 1000mg of L-Tryptophan(a natural melatonin inducer), 25ml of CBD, and 1/2 of a 4gm tab of ChlorTab(anti-histamine). I then drink some water before going to bed, so that I Will wake up 3 to 4...