This is a tip I have found to help with my sleep. Currently I struggle to get 3-4 hours sleep a night. Last week I came down with this crazy 'cold' everyone is coming down with. Along with a manic cough that I can't shake. In the past, to help me...
Hi, my husband has been stage 4 with bone and lung mets for 18months and doing well on HT. however recent bone and Ct scan was explained as having one or two new small hot spots. told nothing to worry about PSA 0.1 because they may have been there...
Hi Steve, I’ve started a new thread to answer your query regarding increasing PSA to avoid hijacking another thread. Hope that’s ok. If you’ve had radiotherapy as in your case, the definition of biochemical recurrence is your PSA nadir after radiotherapy...
Woke up yesterday in a foul mood, ready to tear anyones head off who dare to annoy me. Relised i needed to calm it down, so rather go on a long walk i decided to wash the car. Bad mistake, i was in agony afterwards. Still in pain today.
I just had my first session of RT this afternoon. The next one is at 8:45 tomorrow. Now I just have to hope that the weather will allow me to get home for the weekend (or at least a part of it). It's not looking very promising at the moment.
I had a prostatectomy November 2022 I’m 74 years old and have thankfully had no incontinence at all. At my 8 week post op consultation my PSA was 1.5 it has subsequently gone down to 1.4 should I worry about this unduly?
Hi All My details as of 19/11/2022 Gleeson score of 9 i have been given a Stage 3+ i didn't know there was a stage 3+ anybody help with that one ? I had a Biopsy where they took 17 cores of which 14 had aggressive cancer cells in them the specialist...
Do sleep issues get better when body adjusts to Zoladex
I was initially diagnosed in December 2019 with a 'tiny' prostate tumour. After two years of active surveillance, and rising PSA levels ( to 20), I elected to have the radical prostatectomy surgery. As I was then over 75, I was fortunate that I was deemed...
My husband was diagnosed with incurable prostate cancer about 18 months ago. He is on abiraterone. Steroids. And hormone injections every 3 months. His psa at the start was 19 and during his treatment dropped to 1. It stayed at that for a few months....
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