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PART ONE: The Wife’s Handbook to Understand and Deal with Her Partner’s Prostate Cancer Treatment Side Effects An irreverent survival guide to the hormonal hurricane formerly known as your husband Foreword So, your husband has prostate cancer. And...
Palliative care team have just suggested a change from morphine to oxycodone for my husband. Does anyone have experience of this? Thank you Janet
Hi everyone. I’m just after your thoughts of my unfolding path relating to my prostate cancer. Had prostatormy last may. Gleason 3+4 T2. I had positive margins after the op. Unfortunately my PSA post op was 0.11 and then hit 0.23 three months later...
Hello, My dad has just been told it’s highly likely he has prostate cancer. He’s 81 and so we are under no illusions that he has a lifetime ahead of him but he has a good quality of life right now - no memory issues or other significant problems besides...
Urbi et Urine: Electing a New Pope and Dealing with Prostate Cancer There comes a time in every man's life when he finds himself squatting in a hospital gown that barely covers his dignity, waiting to be anointed, not by the Holy Spirit, but by the...
I was diagnosed in Sept 2022. PSA 8.2, Gleeson 3-4 (7). T3b , spread to seminal vessels but nodes OK. At that point my world was turned upside down, I didn't expect that outcome, I just had urinary problems, I didn't know anything about PC and I didn...
I’m not a doctor. I don’t play one on TV. I don’t even own a lab coat, unless you count that bathrobe I wore during the pandemic and called “medical attire” to get out of Zoom calls. What I am is an observer of casual life — that unglamorous, unsupervised...
Hi, Can anyone tell me if they need incontinence pants to start with after their operation to have their prostate removed or are pads all that is needed to do the job. I have an enlarged prostate (about 6 times the normal size) and I'm concerned about...
I just had my latest annual PSA test result and it has gone up from 0.2 to 0.3. I'm six years post-RT and it's still very low so no worries at the moment. I just need to get on with life until the next test in May 2026!
Hello, I’ve been reading some posts on here and the courage and support demonstrated is incredible. However, I’ve gone back to square one in the anxiety stakes as one post mentioned that if the cancer has spread to the bones then it’s a matter of months...
