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.
Gina,
You're not one of these ones that puts the cream on first are you?
Got to be Strawberry Jam 
and Roddas Clotted Cream! Mmmm....
Steve (SteveCam)
Gina,
You should have seen the state of me when I had my first Hot Flush
. Didn't know what was happening!
Gina I do the Macmillan all from my phone and the emojis pop up all the time with the predictive text.
What about the Poo emoji? 
I think it's great.
Anyway, back to being serious. I have Oesophagitis, which stops the food from traveling all the way down my Oesophagus. I get involuntary hic- ups and spasms, they progressively get more and more. I can feel the food working it's way back .
Sometimes it calms down and stops but sometimes it keeps on going until I am sick.
I know when this is going to happen and I have about a minute to find a toilet.
I was on Omerprazole and a steroid inhaler. This has been going on for over 5 years. When I saw the specialist last June he put me on the Budesonide instead of everything else. This worked wonders. Then in December I had another Endoscopy and that just put me back on the slippery slope.
Couple of months ago he said I could try the steroid inhaler again and prescribed some Peptic (like a super strong Gaviscon). It worked a bit.
Last week he said that he might put me back on the Budesonide. I see him in August for a Colonoscopy.
Me and cameras, don't know what the fascination is!
Glad to hear Richard is improving.
Re your reply to Stromness, you are not just a carer! What you are going through can be just as hard.
My partner is there all the time for me. I couldn't manage without her!
Have a good Sunday.
Steve (SteveCam)
