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.
He managed half and luckily it stayed down. I made him a smoothie this morning with some frozen fruit which I hoped would be palatable enough we he drank and then said he felt a bit sick. He wasn't though but weirdly his tastebuds are also all to pot. For a chap who has a very sweet tooth, he keeps complaining of things being too sweet for him, even when they are not really.
That name is so funny, Dr Dipper
, especialy as he goes down the throat. Richard has gastritis and oesophagul polyps but I cannot see any way they would operate at the moment as he is too weak.
Please let me know how you got on this afternoon.
Gina
Hi Steve,
At least it is not long to go for your procedure and they do give you a report when it is over. If there are no large polyps then that is good and if there are some small ones, they can usually remove them. You have had these awful "up the bum" jobs, as we call, them before, so at least it is not something you haven't experienced. Richard found the "down the throat" one much more uncomfortable. I gag if I have to give a throat swab, so goodness knows how I would cope. I had to have two back teeth out at the hospital last August, as it was rather complicated, so like the ultimate coward I opted for sedation. Blimey, I would have that every time in the future. Just a squirt of some liquid, on a comfortable bed/table thingy, and two of them fumbling around in my mouth. They could have been digging for gold and I would not have cared. I wish giving birth twice was as easy as that 
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Have a good weekend
Keep positive and cheerful
Gina
