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Hi. You can call me Orev (which means Raven). In Sept I amswered "yes" to too many of the prostate advert questions and it turns out I have a PSA of 168 and locally advanced prostate cancer. Erm - that's probably it, except I my (usual) sleep problems...
Morning all, So after 5 weeks of no side effects which I thought at least we are lucky with that, the night sweat arrived. Husband is not the complaining type but he is suffering. I know Millibob mentioned before sage tablets. Any information and advise...
Hi to you all and hope all have ben having a good Xmas as one can guys , how’s alpine wanderer going on with that brachnytherapy procedure now , my c diff was negative but too late to get my January date now , but roll on February, Jonny mac
Hi. I am 67 and have recently had the result nobody wants and I have prostate cancer. Really? Me? I feel fine and have never had a serious illness in my life. Started with self initiated PSA test in May. Additional scans show it’s not spread anywhere...
Hello all, Two weeks ago I (41 years old) received news that my PSA levels were elevated (18). An hr before I was gave blood, I had sex AND I worked out that morning. I wasn’t told I was taking a PSA Test. How much do you think those items affected...
Good evening guys and girls.I hope you all had as good a Christmas as is possible,I’ve updated my story so far in my profile as I hope this could help anyone on the same road as me but just starting out,I’m approximately 3months in from my first psa up...
So…. This time last year we were still reeling with my husband’s diagnosis, getting used to his ht and scared silly about radiotherapy due to start in February. Then, on Christmas morning I found a breast lump but did not want to spoil everybody’s Christmas...
Hi guys was diagnosed with prostate cancer about 4 months ago. Was reading all the posts in here and you all talk about numbers and treatments. Had my first injection just about 3 months ago as I said in a post somewhere I was told in a 5min telephone...
Finished treatment 16 days ago and feel exhausted!
Hello All, Has anybody had this scenario at all, and if so, what new drug were you changed over to? I had my 2nd chemo cycle treatment yesterday and within 2 mins of the drip starting I had reaction to docetaxel - this is after I also had a reaction...
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