Hi My husband is on hormones, along with chemo, for advanced prostate cancer. The hormones are making him so irritable and quick to anger. I am trying to be understanding and supportive but he is so hard to live with and it is really getting me down...
Hi All, following RT and HT without being prescribed additional calcium and vit D which oncologist deemed as not needed, my husband has been diagnosed with borderline osteoporosis. He was immediately commenced on vit D and calcium supplements but he did...
9 days into Abiraterone Krka x2 500 mg a day, together with Prednisolone 5 mg, in addition to my 6 month injection of Decapeptyl SR and today I feel crap. I slept until 10:15 this morning which greatly exceeds my usual 5:30 am awakening and I have felt...
Four weeks after the op, and overall I'm feeling pretty good. The catheter is long gone (didn't enjoy that much), no leaking after the first day, and not even wearing pads now, except as a safety measure (long car journey, trip to the cinema etc). The...
Good evening, just curious here if any of my fellow PC patients have been in the same situation as myself and had 33 fractions of radiotherapy post radical prostatectomy ? Gladly I was given the good news of undetectable PSA back on the 26th of last month...
Like many who have troden that well worn path of HT and RT, I have put on a few pounds around my tummy. Does this normally sort itself out over time, or do I need to take positive steps to get rid of it? Anyone suggest any good diets that might help...
As some of you know we have very recently had our diagnosis of advanced mestastic PC...... As the days pass we are becoming more accepting of this new normal.....at the end of the day we all have an expiry date and none of us know when that will be...
From my other post you will see that my husband is mired in the diagnostic process, which is likely to go on another month or so, but has had a heads up that he has metastatic prostate cancer. He's said throughout that he has no urinary symptoms, but...
Hi All, OH completed his Docetaxel chemotherapy, CT scan same week (though we thought it would be at least three weeks after completion) We're waiting for an appointment with his consultant now, I know they have a delay at the moment, so we're trying...
Good morning I had a PSA test this week 6 months after I finished my course of radiotherapy. The reading was 0.26 which I was quite pleased with. My original PSA reading at diagnosis was 9.85. I have a telephone appointment with my oncologist later...
