Hi Viking
hope you are doing well
what number on the Gleeson Scale of 1 to 10....?? 10 being NASTY..I was 7
I do hope you recover soon and you get nothing but 0.??s for your PSA (0.?? is regarded as zero as there is always a bit floating about I was told
The following is a ramble about my own personal experiences after prostate cancer diagnosis. Talk about it chaps..prostate cancer is within us all.
Don't be embarrassed, the medics have seen it all before
I Have Had Ulcerative Colitis bowel disease for the last 47 years, an ex workmate got the same but was too embarrassed to see his GP. By the time I and the works manager got him to go it was too late..diagnosis to death in 6 weeks
Viking, like you I had an all round the houses trip before they discovered cancer
went to GP as was peeing a lot especially thru night
blamed it on the diabetes but tested psa levels which came back slightly elevated but "OK"
so sent to see insultant Justin case
prostate can swell with age closing the outlet etc
insultant did a TURPS, basically like coring an apple, to open up the pipe
think missus giving birth position with legs akimbo, epidural, and top of sturgeons head bobbing about on `tother side of of green sheet
6 weeks later at post op visit.......aaaaaaah!, weelll! sorrrry////////but
10%+ of the few grammes they removed are cancerous
referred to another insultant for treatment
what do you want, its 7 and the bad numbers start at 8 ?
OUT PLEASE
Oh good, we thought that was best too
seems they have meetings with ALL interested parties and have a vote
Hols were due, sent away to have a good one, a couple of weeks wont do any harm
suffice it to say that things went a bit awry, mystery illness 2 weeks before op
month in Darlington MH..nobody told my sturgeon
eventually had prostate out 6 months later when The James Cook at Middlesbro found out where I was
OP no problem, some other bits removed, lymph nodes etc, to check for spread. All ok
rapid recovery and chucked out a couple of days early
about 27 or close clips from inside belly button to as far south as they could go
why is there always 2 or 3 that don't want to come out
back at work after about 6 weeks...no lifting/exertions...AS IF
bike after 10 or 12
PSA checks all ok, now on yearly telephone checks from oncology nurse. She sends me blood forms a couple of weeks earlier with rough tome she will call
CONS..JT will be shorter. think of prostate as knot in hose pipe and you have to cut it out, then pull the ends together to rejoin it
as they have a rummage about in some sensitive areas nerves will be damaged thus you may be offered a weekly dose of Viagra to see if it helps, if you get my drift
for 2 years I struggled with incontinence, and the medics (pis*ed myself every time I got off the saddle, and had horrendous urine infections)
it appears a similar thing to a female prolapse happens with the neck of the bladder..no support..thats how it was explained to me..SOOOOO
OP # bloody 3...fitted with an `advanced sling`..couple of staples and a bit of rope
and a bloody great scar the length of my perenium (he said it would be a small cut) not to mention 2 small pea sized lumps either side of the crotch.
Much better...think they were following the Swedes again...infections were because bladder couldn`t empty properly
the last op put paid to any thoughts of JT even thinking of working again as the sturgeon said all the fibres had melded together after the prostectomy, and he had to loosen things to do his thing.
For loosen I think he meant rip apart as he /me had a bleedin` problem
Pro`s I got the sympathy vote for bike stuff from the gaffer, B+Ms new light Lumotec IQ2 luxos, new very expensive winter boots TOR Northwave from Rose..and
the Selle Italia with the mega slot, Brilliant, no pressure on perenium, something I have had bother with forever....all circa: £150 +-
So Viking, if you have got this far mate, the above is probably a worst case scenario, cr*p always happens to me
I hope sincerely that you don't have the same problems post op
the good news is
WE ARE ALIVE AND COPING
unlike my son Paul, cancer claimed him 18th May this year
