My wife has always been in favour of it, but stressed many times, its MY choice.

Its 3 days now since my surgery, still swollen like you wouldn't believe and the bruising is as black as, but surprisingly there has been no pain at all, yes it aches but that's only a dull ache, and wearing one of my wifes pads makes it a bit awkward walking around

but all in all both my wife and ...

Very true my friend, beating the cancer is the main focus. I think from reading your post we differ in as much as I wanted to be castrated and surgical was my first option, which im glad has happened, for starters no more balls the size chook eggs. And thank you for the best wishes

Not really it only happened yesterday, but hot flushes and emotional episodes, yes been having them for a while and I imagine they will only get worse as times goes.

When I saw my urologist about my cancer he sent me to an oncologist, long story short the oncologist started me on zoladex (chemical)

at my next visit to my urologist we were discussing my hydraseal opp, when he said he can always do a full castration while he was in there fixing 2 problems at once ...

I wasn't ambivalent about it, I wanted to talk to people who had had it done and were not on a T supplement.

At my age 71 the loss of my balls means very little to me, and have seen the results of chemical castration (my son in law) and didn't really want to go down that road.

As for prostate ...

Today (Wed) was the day, went into hospital for a hydroseal repair and came out with a full surgical castration.

Its not too bad at the moment, 11 hours later and hardly even an ache , fingers crossed it stays that way.

Im going through loss of strength and muscle mass now thanks to low T due to old age, im 71

Ok thanks for the reply

Thank you, this is the type of thing I want to know. My son in law is chemically castrated and has been for the last 18 months for prostate cancer and he is in agony at times with joint pain, did you have any of that at all? YMMV ??