Any advice from Prostate cancer suffers with some bone spread on the best way to handle night sweats . The irony is I need a bit of heat to ease my joint and bone pain from just starting hormone pills this week . All advice and best practice welcome
*please view profile for full story to date* Dad has been diagnosed with prostate cancer state t2c, Gleason 7 4&3, psa is 13, clear bone scan. It has been 5.5 weeks since biopsy results in which he got diagnosed. Today he got a phone call to say...
Hi All, I haven’t posted for a while , I recently had an appointment with a physiotherapist she asked had i heard about this scheme involving Chris Hoy and pure gym , which I hadn’t , I was put forward as its for PC stage 4 . I received an email...
Hi , a while since I wrote on the forum , Eddie is now 83 and sadly in a nursing home , ( a specialist care centre) , he was taken there from hospital after a really bad UTI and I was advised that due to his aggressive behaviour it was best he didn't...
Evening all , so my dad and sister went to see his cancer consultant today and results of pet scan…the cancer has spread to his lymph nodes in the prostate area. And will need radiotherapy mon-Fri for 4-7 weeks. They also found a significant tumour in...
Dads had another motivated day and ate 3 meals even wanted a Chinese for tea , I honestly don’t no we’re this has come from but I’m loving seeing this change in him ! It’s really odd things have suddenly changed since the other night he had a massive...
Hello Everyone I would just like to congratulate Derek ( excavator) on completing his Community Champion training and joining the "Champs Team" here on the Community. I am sure you will all join me in wishing him well in his role as a volunteer here...
Since I last wrote about dad , things haven’t improved massively unfortunately he’s still in bed and not eating a great deal at all , I often wonder if I wasn’t looking after him what the hell he would do , we finally got to the bottom of his horrible...
Hello lovely people I managed to get a go out to dad today , did all relevant checks and was actually quite happy with the observations he did eveything seemed ok apart from dads frailty due to not eating or if he is it’s tiny amounts, and he did have...
Went to the doctor today to go over the blood test results from last week... Oct 27 - PSA 7.87 Free PSA 2.40 Free Ratio 30.5% Nov 11 - PSA 7.87 Free PSA 1.74 Free Ratio 22.1% The PSA stayed exactly the same, but the Free PSA changed for worse...
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