Husband Just Diagnosed

Hi

Its always a shock to the system, as you know from old. There are now many new medications out there, even more than there was eight years ago. My PSA was 893, six years ago, so there’s plenty going for him. Trouble with cancer, it does not mind how old you are, or how fit you are, never nice for anyone just a fact. 
Keep us informed, maybe we can help.

 Stay safe

Joe

Hi PaulaC and welcome to the forum. A good place to start is the Prostate Cancer UK website:

shop.prostatecanceruk.org/all-publications

Then download the first publication in the left hand column called 'How Prostate Cancer is Diagnosed'. It will give you a good background to understanding the disease 

I was the same age as your husband when I was diagnosed in 2018. I was Gleason 4+5=9 and T3A N0 M0 with a PSA of 15 when treatment started. I was on hormone treatment for three years and had 20 sessions of radiotherapy in early 2019. It's over a year since my hormone treatment finished and my PSA is currently 0.2.

Please come back with any questions you may have as someone here will have experience.

Good luck with your chosen treatment path.

Thank you Joe, really appreciate your message, yes will be back in touch once we have results from the biopsy and scan next week. 
Best Wishes, PaulaC

Hi Seamus

Thank you for your message and the Link I will have a read of it today, it’s so encouraging to hear how you, and others are doing so well after treatment. 

Best Wishes, PaulaC

Hi PaulaC sorry to see your husband has joined our ever increasing club, for insite just checkout our profiles, the icons, I hope you're husband's results are really good.

All the best Ulls 

PaulaC,

Another welcome to the group none of us asked to be eligible for.

There are a lot of good people in this forum as you can see from the replies.

Ulls made a good point about reading the profiles.  There are usually more positives than negatives to take from them.

The good thing I found is whatever questions you may have, there is someone who will probably know the answer to.  All from personal experiences which really counts.

I know when I was diagnosed last year it took a good 3-4 months to accept it inside.  I went through bouts of depression, anger and finally calmness.  Then I was looking forward to the Radiation treatment.  Once I received the schedule for treatment it put me back at stage 1 again.

It's always been "fear of the unknown" which gets me every time.

Now, 14 months after the diagnosis, I am in Biochemical Remission.  That was harder to accept than the original diagnosis.  I couldn't say the word 'Remission', I even had the Oncologist calling it the 'R' word.

Now, after about 5 months counselling I am much stronger mentally than ever before.

If I can take one positive thing from the Cancer it's that.

Best of luck with your husband.  Be strong and be there for him.  Hope things go ok.

Hi Ulls, thanks for your message, yes I am still finding my way round this site.

Take care, PaulaC

Hi Steve, Thank you for your message it’s much appreciated and very encouraging. Wishing you well on your continued journey and Remission
Best Regards, PaulaC