So, we have had a face to face appointment with the consultant oncologist. we were really worried last November when, at a telephone consultation, the doctor said she was really concerned that my husband’s PSA had gone from 0.04 to 0.21 in the 6 months...
My husband has stage 4 Prostate cancer and I recently checked how much a 5 day trip to Belgium would cost. This came in at £2817 for both of us. I decided to update it to check the cost for a UK trip, same amount of days and this came in at £2400…I just...
Hi, had my davinci surgery 2 days ago and am back home resting up. All went well and apart from feeling tired and sore, everything is surprisingly ok. I had issues with my first night with a night bag, though. They are 2l single use ones with no valve...
Have now after hospital appointment today being given my start date for the radiotherapy. will be first session on 3rd April. I'm retiring end of March, with quickly approaching 70 in July and allowing me to consecrate on kicking the cancer into touc...
Reading these pages is both depressing and encouraging. I was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2016 and was treated with radiotherapy and then three years of hormones. In May 2020 I had an aortic valve replacement which left me with atrial flutter...
hi I was diagnosed in September 2020 with locally aggressive pc, high range Gleason 9 treatable not curable. I started HT straight away Chemotherapy started January 2021 followed by Radiotherapy later in the same year. Of late I have become very...
I am now nearly a year into my treatment for prostate cancer, the radiotherapy went okay apart from having to drink nearly a litre of water in five minutes every day and missing three days because of wind. My GP's surgery has done all my PSA blood tests...
I had RALP surgery just before Christmas and all seemed to go well. I had a great consultant have had next to no leaking (not wearing pads at all) and have started running fairly hard with no issues. I was advised I could cycle at around 7 weeks and did...
I asked for all of my hospital records some while before Christmas and have receive most of them. Some by hard copy and some via a secure link to download from the Trust servers. Yes hard copy, these are not digitised yet by my hospital trust! However...
I think I must start by apologising by being so negative about my current situation but I am at my wits end. Anyone who has read my initial post would know that after I’d undergone surgery I received information from the oncologist that I feel, and...
