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.
Start at the bottom! Ouch again!!!
Ah! Dr. Frankenstein!
You could build someone totally new, as long as you have a bolt for his neck, and some massive Dr. Martin type boots. 
I'll watch out for te thunderstorms!
There goes my Cauliflower Cheese.
Ulls, me neither!
Steve (SteveCam)
Hiya,
No, didn't go, too unsafe with an exploding posterior on board!! His sister is over our way on 25th so they are going to come for an evening meal and stay the night. Not exactly the break I was looking forward to but I love cooking so don't mind really. Then we are hoping to go to them as soon as R stops redecorating the bathrooms!!
After I decided to put him on 9mg, I am still trying to speak to his doctor but so far not managed. I spoke to the pharmacist at the surgery yesterday and even he couldn't tell me if I was doing the right or wrong thing and told me to continue with that dose till I was advised otherwise. So add Pharmacist to all my qualifications!! My doctor is not in till Friday now even thought I have been asking to speak to him for days. Poor pharmacist has only been at the surgery for a month and probably wished he had never called me yesterday. I was pleasant but firm about why he has never had his heart meds properly monitored and also why suddenly they want to give him some meds which will prevent him having a stomach ulcer whilst on Budesonide and blood thinners. Hmmm, funny that, he had 14 weeks on them and never told he needed anything else! Also, he was going to write to one of the gastro consultants for advice until I realised it was for the "top end", i.e. endoscopy tests. No, it is the other consultant for the lower end, i.e colonoscopy!! Different direction 
. So at the moment I am still winging it. He is finding he is very dizzy and has numbness in his fingers on both hands. I am not sure if this is the steroids or yet something else. If I Google it, it just comes up with loads of illnesses or side effects of drugs. I am keeping an eye on it, when I am not doing all the other jobs plus the Christmas shopping!! Yes Steve, us women have to start as early as possible!!
Glad you had a nice time in Skipton and you certainly packed in some steps, well done. I think the Saturday market may be a bit bigger and do hope we will get to have a walk round before Christmas.
Gina
