For the guys here who have had prostate problems, what were the first clues that something wrong was going on?



Ramses, you don't want any clues, other than something being off in the PSA counts.

Sixty years ago, the first signs were bone pain when the prostate cancer had metastasized.

The ...

John Sheraton keeps harping on these things -

He keeps telling you to go to www.nccn.org. If you are a man and you have not been there yet, he is absolutely correct - Go, and go now.

He wants you to go to a good clinic for prostate problems, and not to trust your local Urologist. Again, absolutely ...

I go in on Friday morning to have the catheter and the staples removed. (roughly 34 hours from now.) Catheter is still a real nuisance.

We will go over the final results of the lab tests then, done on the lymph nodes and the remains of the prostate. We will also spend a little time discussing the ...

Friday, the doctor will remove my catheter and take out the staples.

Next comes toilet training. I will have to wear a diaper until I get the control down.

Most guys have a ring around their urethra slowing or stopping the flow, and have to squeeze to void. I don't have one of those thingies ...

Good News. I survived.

I am not allowed to sit in this chair for long, so this will be short.

My Gleason score did not change.

The surgery was more serious than I expected. It was still abdominal surgery.

I had a robotic-laproscopic radical prostatectomy. Start to finish, the surgery took 4 ...

Finally, last Thursday, my new pathologist received the prints from my biopsies.

The lab has not yet completed their analysis.

My new doc is out of town until Wednesday.

Still, I am more comfortable than I was before.

I have decided to go ahead with the Surgery.

I scheduled it a month ago.

I ...

My new Urologist is waiting for the pathology results.

Until he gets them, there is nothing to do. He pointedly mentioned that sometimes his pathologist does not even agree it is cancer.

That may be, but the recommended procedure is that if the free PSA is less than 10 or 12%, and biopsy did not ...

What am I missing?

John, I thank you for your concern. I appreciate it and it helps a lot, I assure you. You have had a greater effect than you know. I am very seriously considering the options you advocate, where before, I did not consider them at all.

I have, however, decided not to further ...

My wife and I met with the new Urologist on Monday morning.

I like this guy much more. I was getting no weird vibes about him not telling me the whole story.

As Urology surgeons go, I am convinced he is the best in the area, and the best that I am going to find covered by my insurance. He has ...

For treatment of low-risk Prostate Cancer, there are a number of available therapies.

Surgery, including cryo-surgery, external radiology, watchful-waiting, and radioactive seed therapy, or Brachytherapy. Don’t ask me to pronounce it.

Stable isotopes of some elements can be turned into radio ...