Hello all, my husband diagnosed 4 years ago, unoperable prostate cancer. Received 37 bouts of radiotherapy, medication for 1 year. All yearly blood tests results shown 0.1. However, as a result of past few months night seeing has increased to 4/5 times. Has now been advised prostate again enlarged, given medication which may help. Over summer general physical strength has weakened. Nearly 80 but has always been an outdoor, physically fit person. Anybody else in this situation please. Thank you.
Hi Monday and a very warm welcome to the Macmillan Community but sorry to hear about your husband.
A cancer journey in the family like this can be such a challenging and stressful time but getting support from others who are dealing with the ‘exact same' cancer type or support challenges will help you a lot……. I have a completely different type of cancer and treatment journey.
This New to Community area is like our reception desk where we look to direct you to the best part of the Community for you to get support. The Community is actually divided into dedicated Support Groups (Discussion Rooms) so can I recommend you look to join and post in our…
……. support group.
This group is a safe places to talk to others who may have a similar diagnosis, treatment experience, to ask questions and get support from family members who are navigating the same support journey.
As for the practical and emotional challenges of supporting your husband and indeed yourself you may benefit from joining and posting in our……
Supporting someone with incurable cancer
……. support groups where you will connect with a wide range of members navigating the exact same support challenges.
To connect with a group click on the “Bold Italic Links” I have created above …… then once the group page opens click in the [Black - Click to Join - Banner] that appears at the bottom of the page and this will then confirm that you have joined the group.
When you are ready……. you can introduce yourself by putting up your very own post by clicking [+ Create new post] or [+] in the top right of the group page.
You can copy and paste the text from this post into your new post.
The Macmillan Support Line is open between 8am-8pm (timings may differ across services) 7 days a week on 0808 808 00 00…… this service provides cancer information, practical information, emotional support or just a listening ear.
Talking to people ‘face to face’ can be very helpful so do check to see if you have any Local Macmillan Support in your area, do also check for a local Maggie's Centre as these folks are amazing.
Do get back to me if you need further help navigating the community.
Hello Monday
Another very warm welcome to the Macmillan online Community from me too - again I am so sorry to find you here.
I am Brian and I hang around on our Prostate forum - (33 months into my personal journey). If you take Mike's (Thehighlander) advice and join the Prostate forum - copy and paste or repost your original post above in the New Here - Say Hello section, you will get not only more welcome messages, but plenty of advice from Community members who have "been there, done that".
I look forward to "meeting" you again on "our" part of the Community.
Best wishes - Brian.
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