Indeed a good recliner after surgery like this will do wonders! If you dont have one, rent one for two weeks. :)...
I watched your video. It was interesting. The pictures of people walking around old growth forests looked really calming. Very “entish” for those that read Lord of the Rings. The medical part, at...
As long as you realize 1) mushrooms will not make your cancer go away 2) you have all the proof required to determine that you have cancer. There are guys that would relish the chance you have been...
Hey aleph that sounds great. Enjoy your time....
That is excellent. The gel is called SpaceOar. Nobody can say you did not do your due diligence!...
JasonB176, Good luck with your meeting. I would just say you ask the RO their take on hormone therapy for your case. You want to *maximize* your chance of success. HT would not be long term. Probably...
Biopsies are slivers and despite that they found grade level 4 in there. Do not disregard the chance you have been given, regardless of psa....
JasonB176, First of all I sorry about your diagnosis. A few things 1) As a guy who was also diagnosed at a relatively young age, you should be taking a no prisoners approach. You may have like 50...
JC9Sav, You have confirmed g9 You have an EPE Your psa was pretty high Radiation is the best (but not only) choice. Radiation will treat the prostate and nearby areas. Surgery only gets the prostate....
It is great that they started you on bicalutamide. You are now being treated. Your cancer cells are becoming weaker by the minute!!...
Ok no distant mets. It seems everything is still in or very near the prostate. You will have to make choices now Surgery or radiation. It seems they are already mentioning an extracapular extension...
Tests you cannot study for…. Congrats on the less than sign!...
Hi Jota, At this point you should start searching for a radiation oncologist that you feel comfortable with. The standard of care for a recurrence is not this “ The urologist also told me that if it...
I do not have concierge care specifically, but i have been contacted by my insurance company with similar services. Oftentimes very late in the process. If you have any questions I suppose you could...
First of all kudos to you and your wife for advocating for yourselves! I think that the folks who make the machinery work are numb to the fact that there are anxious/worried people on the other end...
Unless you already have some evidence that the bureaucracy is moving, on Monday I would start asking your insurance if they have received the authorization request. It is unfortunate but between...
How is everything going JCSav?...
You are on track JC9sav. I dont know how your insurance works, but for me: - Dr orders psma pet - Prescription flows to imaging center - Imaging center gets authorization from insurance company -...
It depends on when you were born. Full retirement benefits start at age 67 for me. Early retirement can happen anytime after age 62. Medicare is still age 65 unless you are determined to be disabled...
Jc9sav, Alot to take in all at once to be sure I do not have any advice about specific institutions etc, but I want to make sure you saw this from Mumbo Getting that scheduled somewhere, by somebody,...
How many of you have been affected by the Change Healthcare hack? Apparently there was a ransomware attack on 2/21 and that company is still down. It assists with insurance transactions throughout...
So many men struggle with this. The good news is they can cure you. Look at the list of potential side effects really really hard for both treatments. Incontinence? Radiation damage to your...
The radiation guys i am sure will be along but you are not recurrent until you reach 2.0+your lowest psa. You still have a (crispy) prostate so you should expect some psa....
Well i can tell you that in the Philadelphia area, for example Fox Chase or Jefferson….the buildings are old. Dingy. Security is an issue at Jefferson. Fox Chase has this one parking garage where...
Wow Larry E, its like night and day the difference in approaches. You mentioned you are being seen in Houston. Was that an MD Anderson Dr?...
The ltd policy i have from work does specifically state they in effect “level up” to 0.6 of my salary. For example (illustrative only) if 0.6 of my salary/month is $1000, and ssdi is $500/month, the...
Thanks Jnf and LynnWood again. Just to wrap it up, I am currently working and i earn good $, but that does not come without consequence (stress etc…) The hormones make me tired and not as mentally...
Thank you jnf and lynnwood. Another question i have is if Social Security determines i am disabled under their compassionate allowances provisions does that affect the long term disability decision...
I have a long term disability (LTD) policy through work that pays me 60% of my current salary until retirement age For me that is like 7 years away So that sounds like a good thing except there is...
That is funny for sure! I use Dashlane for password management. Every site gets a unique password. While on the topic of security, I have been wondering about voice deepfakes. Many banks/investment...
I had part of my left kidney removed in September. Nobody cared about adt. The recovery set me back a bit but i am sporting a streak of 50 days in a row of at least 10,000 step/day. Walking helps so...
Ive been in more surgeries in the past five years than I care to admit to. I always say thanks....
The intriguing part, he might be browsing the site here anytime! There is a reasonable chance he might find us....
Then there are these headlines today. https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/14/politics/house-intel-chairman-serious-national-security-threat/index.html ...
Well we have a war in Ukraine. War in Israel. War in the Red Sea/Yemen. China continues to threaten Taiwan. Anyway, it seems like he is out of the hospital and back at work for now....
Regardless, I dont feel particularly safe right now....
Apparently he has passed his responsibilities to Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks,...
So the procedure is - they setup an iv and push the radioactive dye/fluid - you then wait in a room by yourself for a period of time to give it a chance to circulate - you go into the room with the...
I would go to 3 month testing, on the chance it jumps faster than it has....
All this news about King Charles reminded me of a favorite movie of mine...
I will never know for sure but I did have a liposarcoma that was removed 15 years ago followed by radiation and the radiation field overlapped my prostate area. According to the surgeon he saw signs...
They pull slivers out during a biopsy. Tiny percentages of a tumor are sampled. Its cancer, period....
If he was talking loud enough to hear in a public place…..thats a tough one. It would depend on whether or not you felt comfortable sharing your story publicly. This seems like it is bothering you....
Whatever the issue was, as of today, 1/13/2024, he is still in the hospital....
[quote="Mattam"Maybe the Secretary will join HW and we can bash him for getting an RP.[/quote] Maybe he already did! ;)...
There are a number of military folks here…..how important is SecDef during a crisis? I mean we have hot wars in Europe and the Middle East. We have Iran proxies shooting at ships in the Red Sea. Lots...
I was around 51 at diagnosis. A whole different perspective on life emerges very quickly!! There are guys who have psa’s in the hundreds or even thousands when they first find out. You need two...
Its good to see you BillyBob388! CentralPADude—>TopGun!...
So i am on lupron and xtandi. What other things besides thyroid function should i be testing? I also regularly get kidney/liver/blood counts/cholesterol/glucose etc…Are there others?...
I have been on hormones now for the past 8 months, and about 2 months ago I was really feeling the fatigue. I attributed it to the hormones. Last month at my regular dr appointment they checked my...