Hello friends I have received my medication’s tablets and injection, Bicalutamide tablets and Goserlin (ZOLADEX LA 10.8mg) concern about The injection as I am a diabetic type two what is increase my blood sugar level and also about the tablets I would...
4 weeks to the day since my last PSA blood test & I was getting ready to chase the results up with the hospital when the letter finally arrived a bit soggy & wet. Yes, it's raining again in ''sunny Cornwall''! The latest score is 0.42 which was up slightly...
I have been on Zoladex for over 2 years now, I have injection every 3 months. At my latest appointment, the nurse asked why I hadn't moved over to Prostap, which was what the surgery usually prescribed. The main benefit she said was that the Prostap injection...
I'm due to start 20 chapters of RT next Wednesday 4th Feb. Any advice of what to eat in the two or three days leading up to the start, and then during treatment. I am confused between maintaining fibre and/or keeping to low fibre bland meals. Any suggestions...
My husband, 77 has had an excellent response to enzalutamide and prostap for almost four years. He had a cardiac event (the enzalutamide was stopped then) last month and is now four weeks post quadruple bypass. He's making a remarkable recovery but when...
Has anyone taken up on the 12 month free membership with Pure Gym for anyone with metastatic prostate cancer on hormone therapy treatment. Just saw a flyer in the Clatterbridge cancer centre, Liverpool.
I woke early and went to the gym at work at 7 am today. I was ravenous and had two breakfasts. Neither of those things is relevant, but let's say I was already in a good mood when I received a call back from The Christie. I was hoping to find out the...
Good Morning all. Just out from seeing my Consultant after my 1st Biopsy didn’t match my MRI so we went for a 2nd biopsy to get the “full picture”. So they took 11 samples from the tumour this time (targeted biopsy) and 10 have come back as cancerous...
PSA is now less than 0.1 which is where they want it to be. He said that all the cancer was contained in the prostate. However, there was a 3mm positive margin at the apex. He didn’t seem too over concerned by this; (but I am). They now monitor me 3 monthly...
These notes are specific to me and to The Christie Hospital in Manchester. I found that self-administering a micro enema is easy. I was freaking out needlessly. The treatment schedule I have is very flexible. My belief that I would attend at the same...
