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Hi all. My dad is due to start 4 weeks of radiotherapy in September. My mum and him were hoping to go on holiday in October (they missed out this summer) My question is to anyone who has been through it. How did you feel in the weeks after treatment ended...
Hi, In case it helps anyone, I thought I’d share our recent travel insurance success. After husband was advised he should have a biopsy in January as his PSA was starting to rise and MRI showed something suspicious, we postponed our planned trip to...
Hi everyone I’m not the patient here, but looking to see if anyone has gone through what my father in law is going through with a diagnosis of 2 primary cancers-bladder and prostate. I’m a community champ in the cervical group, been through cancer...
Well back to Southend hospital for my follow up appointment Not sure what it entails. But well work want me to return (mechanic) And well SSP don't cover the morgage and bill's ( The cost of living doesn't stop for cancer !). So hopefully...
We saw the doctor today and confirmed to him that hubbie wants to go ahead with chemo. This will start in 2-3 weeks and take us up until just before Xmas. I can honestly say that after the appointment I feel the happiest I have felt since the GP rang...
Hello everyone, I know fatigue is a side effect of enzalutamide, but can anyone who has been on it give any advice as to whether it gets better with time? many thanks.
Hi, do you think its wishful thinking considering a holiday to Turkey in April 2024. My husband(66) has PC with bone mets. On monthly Prostap jabs & Enzalutamide. Keeping really well at the moment. Bit of tiredness now & then. Diagnosed in December 2022...
Hi all, Just an update on my latest PSA result after 3 years on Zoladex jabss at 12 week intervals. My latest psa is 0.77 and my testosterone level 0.2. I'm really chuffed and only need a PSA check every 6 months now. Only side effects I've had are...
Hi, I'm just reaching out for some feedback from others that have been through their Radiotherapy. My partner has just finished week two with another two weeks to go. Generally he feels ok but yesterday two things have happened; He got his blood tests...
So tomorrow we go back to the hospital to tell the doctor that husband is going to have chemo as suggested. I hate the place and I just want to run away and hide and make it all go away. I feel we have lost everything, we both retired early just before...
