Orchitectomy on Old people

[isancook (imported)]

In my family most older men are castrated because of prostate cancer. My father was 75 when he was cut, most of my uncles had been a little older. Some of my cousins have had prostatectomy in my age and then got cut some years later. Most men in my family are castrated when getting old. That is the reason, why i am here. I think that I shold undergo the cut before it is necessary.

[Am I you? (imported)]

Hi again family

I have been gone for a while, but continued my alcohol injections. Finally I got my urologist to look at the boyz., When I saw him last week I told him that they ache all of the time and I have stabbing pain

I also told him they were shrunken and hard and I would be happy if they were "just gone"

I had my ultrasound today

I guess that I will have to wait

[dvdbll (imported)]

When my urologist started my castration, he noticed the surgical nurse was a little uneasy. When he asked if she was OK, she said she had never participated in a castration. He told her it would be easy, like a "super-duper vasectomy." He went on to explain that he did hundreds of them in his first job at a V.A. hospital. He said that in the V.A. hospital they preferred the easiest, cheapest procedure, so the first step in treating anyone diagnosed with prostate cancer was to castrate the man immediately to stop testosterone production. He said that everyone diagnosed during office appointments on Monday through Wednesday was scheduled for castration that Friday, and he would do as many as 5 before lunch on Fridays, and finish up after lunch if needed.

I remember this conversation very clearly because it was when he was getting ready for my castration, getting all of his instruments opened and lined up, and injecting each of my cords and nuts with anesthesia, all the while I was picturing all of the other men's nuts in his hands before mine!

[Am I you? (imported)]

Well Family

I did not have the wait too long. I finished the ultrasound at 3:00 this afternoon. At 6:15 my urologist called and there was something going on and he is scheduling a CT scan.

He also mentioned a biopsy.

Time will tell if that $28.00 bottle of Everclear did the job.

[Mac (imported)]

Seventy seems old to me right now (I turn sixty-nine tomorrow). Fortunately, I am already castrated. --FLO--

Seventy no longer seems old to me (I am seventy-one) and I would like to have everything removed along with a proper reroute. Just need to find a way for my doctor to say it is recommended and to have medicare cover the cost.

[Riverwind (imported)]

Seventy no longer seems old to me (I am seventy-one) and I would like to have everything removed along with a proper reroute. Just need to find a way for my doctor to say it is recommended and to have medicare cover the cost.

I know you have wanted this for a long time but good luck with that. You might get the testicles removed but don't look for the rest and to have medicare cover it, I don't think that will happen unless you had something like cancer of the penis.

River

[sherifffdb (imported)]

If there is a family history of prostate cancer, I think age should not be a consideration when deciding if an oriectomy is in order.

[daifu-orchid (imported)]

I know you have wanted this for a long time but good luck with that. You might get the testicles removed but don't look for the rest and to have medicare cover it, I don't think that will happen unless you had something like cancer of the penis.

River

I was done about 60, and everything good since. Getting a surgeon to do it was quite the challenge, even with a question of malignancy one side.

We often want surgery for our own reasons, and if sure and informed, I think we should have it much more available. Often the solution seems to be medical tourism. The US medical scene is both rigid in outlook and twice as expensive as anyone else's.

If Mac wants something or everything done, good luck to him, but I expect it will involve a sunny vacation to make it happen. -And probably still save money!

[rollerboy_1979 (imported)]

I am 63 and I have been on TRT for 12 years after testing 199. In that amount of time, my testicles have atrophied and hardened, and are no longer functioning. They are so small and light, that they float in my scrotum about halfway up. I have complained to my urologist of soreness and atrophy, and after a couple of ultrasounds and an expensive CT scan, he went from "We can just remove them" to "Let's take another look in three months". He, himself said, "At your age, you won't be wanting to father any children, so why not just remove them?". I feigned surprise but agreed that I'd rather eliminate the pain and the cancer risk than preserve two non-productive glands. I don't like the fact that he's making me wait for yet another scan when he already came up with the solution I already had in mind. He's the kind of doctor who is always going 90mph when he's talking to you, and usually with his nose in his computer. He also overlooked prostatitis and let me walk out of his office having to pee every 20 minutes. My GP figured it out and put me on Cipro for 30 days. For this reason, and others, I'm going to go to another urologist and present with testicular pain and atrophy. Perhaps he'll take my age into consideration, look at my scans, and just set me up for surgery? I hope so!

[Majicdan (imported)]

I found that since a surgeon has to follow prescribed protocol since they are worried of being sued, the only acceptable reasons for castration are injury, cancer, and chronic pain following a vasectomy. I used the last reason. I had a vasecomy when I was 20 years old and had problems with chronic pain ever after. By the time I was about 50 my testicles had atrophyied and my doctor put me on supplemental T. My urologist put me through tests for over six months before telling me that I needed to go to a universary hospital to have the nerves cut. When I asked about castration he absolutely would not even talk about it. When I had my next visit with my primary doctor I told him about my testicles, low T level, vasectomy, and chronic pain. He asked me why I don't just have them cut off. I told hime that my urologist would not even talk about it. He referred me to a different urologist, who just so happened was a lady. She did a nerve block on both testicles. When I returned I brought my wife to the appointment and told the urologist that this was the first I had been pain free for over 30 years. I asked her about castration. She talked with me an my wife about all of the negative side effects. I told her that I wanted the operation. She scheduled it for six weeks later. The operation was the best thing I ever did.

I have no pain. I can sit, run, and jump like I was a teen again. At the post opp follow up I thanked the urologist and my primary doctors for believing in me. I told them that the surgery was the best thing I ever did. I stayed on supplelmental T injections until about one year later when I ended up with prostate cancer. I had my prostate removed and have now been completely off supplemental T for over three years.