Thanks to all for your responses. The pain is no longer excruciating, merely discomforting. I am hopeful the worst is passed and though my urination is still frequent and uncomfortable, I can...
Good advice. Of course, I have talked to my medical team--they are the ones who recommended/prescribed the various pills and potions named above. My doctors can't tell me if any of you have had...
Just (7/19/21)completed four weeks/20 fractions of IMRT and am 2 months into ADT hormone therapy and frequency, weakness of stream and painful urination have intensified over the past two weeks....
I've been taking Flomax since April but can't say it has done much for me. Also on Finasteride. Still pee 4-6 times a night and painful urination is common. ADT injection in late April and started 20...
Thanks for the replies Steve and trailguy, I don't have a problem relaxing just curious if folks are finding pot and/or its derivatives useful and for which symptoms. Trailguy, I appreciate your...
Just curious if anyone has recent experience or information re: pot/CBD and PCa? I live in Colorado so access to all is legal here but it's been a few decades since I imbibed....
I don't miss that humidity or those mosquitos I remember from my Iowa boyhood but I do miss that sweet corn and those great Iowa tomatoes. And sometimes I wonder if anyone has bullhead fish frys...
Wow, Cyclone, you've hit on all the ol' landmarks. Skinned my elbows in the Sugar Bowl and the Monkey Barrel many times. My folks had a pre-Crocs plastic sandal shop in the 'Emporium' for several...
I just finished my first week (five fractions) of daily IMRT radiation therapy. The treatments themselves are brief and painless. The complicating issue for me has been the requirement to present for...
Oops I see now my 'signature IS being added. :-) Oh well, still learning my way around here. PlatoK...
Cyclone--My first full-time job was operating the Kiddie coaster in Kiddieland at Arnold's Park in the summer of '63 at the age of 15...7 days a week from noon to 9PM. Swam in Okoboji, fished and...
Will try to create signature, as advised....
My first-alert PSA was 40.0 on April 15 this year (2021). Ten days later it was 31.0 on a re-check. (I had quit the scotch :-) I radically 'improved' my diet/exercise as reported in another thread...
Thanks Mumbo and Cyclone for your additional contributions. Good points from you both. Cyclone, I was raised in the Okoboji area and worked there every summer in high school. Had an aunt that lived...
Thanks all for a great running conversation on various diets and personal experiences. I am only two months out from my diagnosis and seeing over and over again the apparent advantage of a vegetarian...
I am curious what others with PCa (I start EBRT on June 21) have concluded regarding nutrition. I have been researching this and there seem to be a variety of opinions with some comonalities....
Thank you all for the great feedback on my Kaiser P. question. I have always been happy with Kaiser. This PCa. is the first serious medical issue I've had to deal with. I start radiation on June 21...
Just curious if anyone here has gone through a course of Prostate C. treatment with KAISER P. insurance and what your experience/level of satisfaction was/is? I am being treated under their auspices...
Hi JNF--My wife's notes from the tx consult with the RO indicate they will be treating the lymph nodes as well. I was offered either the eight week or four week course of radiation and was told he...
JNF and all, Thank you for taking an interest in my situation. I've copy/pasted the prostate size information from the MRI report below. As far as I can remember, the reason I was given for...
Much obliged, halbert and Michael_T! Plato...
I saw the radiation oncologist today: No brachytherapy due to enlarged prostate. EBRT prep begins 8 June and the actual radiation (four weeks daily 5x per week) begins a couple weeks later. As many...
Hi JNF--I had noticed how similar your initial diagnostic number were to my situation and took comfort in your longevity. :-) I intend to query my docs about a regimen like you have suggested and...
This information from all contributors is so appreciated. I definitely see how the wisdom of getting a second opinion/read on both the biopsy and MRI applies here. The radiation oncologist with whom...
Thks again, All. I am near Boulder, CO and about 90 minutes from Denver. 73 yrs old, healthcare through Medicare/Kaiser Permenente. How does one approach Dr. Epstein at JHU about reading one's biopsy...
Thank you to everyone who answered so promptly. What a great service! No surgery, the MRI report was referring to the biopsy. I have a consultation with the radiation oncologist this Wednesday (June...
Yet I have read online that MRIs are more reliable (89%) than biopsys (43%). ADT IS treatment isn't it? You mean before radiation?...
Has anyone had anything close to this experience: My PSA was 40, then 10 days later 31. Then I had a biopsy with 12 of 14 cores showing positive for cancer with perineural invasion and extra...