Not sure if I am duplicating this on another part of the site, but my husband (77) was diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer about a year ago. He has multiple bone mets throughout the skeleton and whilst initially on Firmagon (hormone therapy), he has changed to Prostap as he had too much pain from the first.
He has bladder incontinence which is manageable by wearing pads but has been having often uncontrollable diarrhea every day for nearly four months. He has had an endoscopy and a colonoscopy so far and oncology say nothing to do with the cancer. He recently had an MRI to rule out spinal compression and a contrast ct scan. Nothing sinister found that they didn't already know.
However, my biggest worry is that he can no longer can eat. I have tried everything, obviously including his favourite foods. He can manage sweet things like fruit, yoghurt and soft deserts but he just cannot mange more than a couple of mouthfuls of any savoury food and is having Energy drinks supplied by the doctor.
My questions are, do other sufferers have bad diarrhea and is total lack of appetite and inability to eat normal. He is going downhill so fast and also getting dehydrated too. I am at my wits end trying to help him.
Hi Steve,
Well I thought he was progressing but he seems to be losing his appetite again. Last two evening meals he ate a little, but not nearly enough. This lunchtime I made him one half of a bagel thin with smoked salmon and cream cheese. He had one bite and then just ate the slice of smoked salmon. Grrrr.
I told him some time ago that orange juice, his favourite, was too acidic for someone with gastritis, duodenitis and oesophagul candida. I bought some cartons of apple juice which would be better. So what did he do yesterday, which I have just found out, opens a carton of orange juice. In one ear and out the other.
Do you have problems remembering things and get confused. I know you are a mere youngster, but he acts more like he has alzheimers. My father suffered from that and there are so many similarities. I know he has some shrinkage in the brain having had to pay for a private MRI to try and find the cause of his swallowing problems, but he has no ability to concentrate, solve problems or remember things. Would this be the cancer or the hormone therapy. I know women who are struggling to get hrt treatment are suffering dreadfully from what is deemed brain fog and he seems the same. You had any problems? Perhaps you have had trouble distinguishing one cow from another 
Very hot here, who needs a holiday in Spain (meeeee).
Cheers
Gina
Steve,
Mum had Dementia and dad had Alzheimers so what hope have I got. Who did you say you were again???
The symptoms were very different. Dad just slowly disappeared in front of our eyes. He was a civil engineer and brilliant at diy, carpentry and fixing things. To see him so frail and unable to remember things was heartbreaking. However, the carers would often tell me about the odd jokes he would make. He had a cracking sense of humour and it was nice to see it suddenly appear, especially when he seemed to be away with the fairies.
My mum, on the other hand, had what what they called Sundowners often. She would imagine all sorts of weird things and nothing on earth would persuade her otherwise. She thought a cat had slept on her head all night (she didn't have a cat). There were ants in her bed. My daughter was her carer and had to strip the bed regularly to find the non existent ants. There were mice another time and a man who apparently let himself in and slept in a spare room every night. Tell her she was dreaming it and she would hit the roof.
The worst was when she would suddenly ask me where dad was. She would say, why is dad not coming down for dinner, or has he come back from shopping. Telling her he had died two years earlier each time and seeing the look on her face was heartbreaking.
At least if I had vascular dementia too, I could live in a world with ants, mice and lodgers and I would be none the wiser 
Cheers
Gina
p.s. I am a champion waffler too
Gina,
If you get the 
ants first, then the mouse, the 
mouse could eat the ants.
Remember "There was an old lady who swallowed a fly"
It's easier to make jokes I think. Not about you, about the situations.
... and be none the wiser.
Steve (SteveCam)
